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Well, Oprah Winfrey has barnstormed Iowa for Barack Obama in what can only be described as "Oprahpalooza", complete with sellout crowds, fainting fans, all the usual trappings.
So it has come to this: not only does Oprah Winfrey tell us what books to read, what life to live, what oxygen to breathe, she also tells us who to vote for: Barack Obama. All well and good. She's certainly entitled to her opinion, she's entitled to make that opinion public, and Barack Obama's entitled to play that opinion for all it's worth, even if doing so results in something as obnixious as Oprahpalooza 2007.
But the question is exactly how much weight Oprah's opinion will carry in Barack Obama's Presidential effort (and yes, that pun was fully intended). It could add some credibility among certain voter segments, certainly, but his main competition among those demographics (women, African Americans) is Hilary Clinton, and they've already been trending away from her lately. Not hard to see why, since Hilary's answer to Oprahpalooza has been Barbra Streisand, who doesn't quite have the Iowa following Oprah does, to put it mildly. But overall, I'm sick of celebrity endorsements of just about everything, especially political candidates, and if Oprahpalooza sways otherwise undecided voters towards Barack Obama based on nothing more than her star power, my reaction may involve power-vomiting.
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(Posted 12/8/07)
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Oprahpalooza Meets Obamarama: Oprah Winfrey Campaigns for Barack Obama in Iowa
