The size of the crowds is an important part of Obama's success. In College Park, MD on Monday, he drew a crowd of seventeen thousand.
As any magician (or con man) will tell you, it is much easier to win the hearts and minds of a crowd than it is an individual. Individuals are smart and skeptical; crowds are fickle. And that factor only multiples exponentially the larger the crowd becomes.
Watching Obama out of character is telling. Dean Barnett has a piece today reporting on Obama without his teleprompter. During the debates, he has largely been handled by Hillary Clinton.
Obama has been given a free pass by the media who themselves have bought into his rhetoric. But once he secures the nomination, the honeymoon is over. And running a general election campaign is very different from running a primary campaign.
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