"If you've lost Oprah, you've lost Middle America"

Marty Kaplan nails the Oprah effect. I won't excerpt, just go read. But, the bottom Oprah-line is not about Obama and her effect on him, it's about the war and her effect on us.

I will add, as I read through all the Oprah/Obama talk today, that I am pleased she has finally stood up politically to try and make a difference. What has always infuriated me about Oprah, and I will say I do like and respect her, is that she had this huge platform to say something against the Bushies and against the war but she chose to stay neutral. In today's environment neutral is not an option and her endorsement of Obama is a step in the right, America-course-correcting, direction.