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"As always with Obama, it's a question of who the rubes really are. It's the power of glamour."

Writes Glenn Reynolds, quoting me ? and possibly implying that I'm one of the rubes. On "glamour," he links to this, from Virginia Postrel. Postrel makes a distinction between "charisma" ?"a personal quality that inspires followers to embrace the charismatic leader's agenda" ? and "glamour" ? which "encourages the audience to project its own yearnings onto the glamorous figure."When voters motivated by charisma disagree with the leader they've backed, they support him anyway and possibly even ch read more

Full post as published by Althouse on June 28, 2008 (boomark / email).