McClatchy reports:
In December 2003, the New York Times magazine ran a piece on the Howard Dean phenomenon. The piece opened with the story of Clay Johnson, a 26-year-old whose girlfriend had recently dumped him. Johnson laid “on the floor in a fetal position and remained there for days, occasionally sipping from an old carton of orange juice,” but Howard Dean finally gave him “a reason to get up off the floor.” So too with Obama, it seems that some of his supporters are looking to fill a void in their lives that goes far beyond politics. Sharing conversion stories via email is just plain creepy, but maybe for those malcontents who don’t cling to religion, accepting Obama as their political lord and savior is enough to get them off the floor. Prozac would probably help, too, or Scientology.
