Both the Clinton and Obama supporters have a strong core of folks who have internalized (made their own) the two candidates messages. The Clinton base believes that Clinton is the rightful candidate and that those that impede her on her journey to the White House are either naive or misogynists. The Obama base (self included) believe that Obama embodies the nations hope for a unified "common sense" approach to politics. Those that would impede his journey to the White House are either clinging to the old politics that got us into this mess in the first place or on some level racists. Unifying these two bases is going to be tricky but I think it can be done. The upside of unification far exceeds the downside so here is hoping cooler heads prevail.
