So Obama cruises once again, notching his 10th win in a row, and the momentum seems unstoppable. This, despite the bogus plagiarism flap earlier in the week; and the margins are once again stunning - not so much in Hawaii (Obama 76 percent, Hillary 24 percent) but certainly in Wisconsin - where Obama won 58-41.

Obama, I suspect, is developing a bit of a Teflon coating. What he represents - broad, sweeping change - has become so attractive to voters that they are willing to overlook the minor issues that might once have knocked his campaign off stride. That’s where the Hillary campaign has erred, I think - unless they’ve got something “nucular,” I don’t see how they can knock Obama’s campaign off stride, I don’t see how it can possibly take away from his momentum and the enthusiasm he’s generated - the “cult of Obama,” it’s come to be called.

We’ve touched on some of the more unsettling aspects of that “cult,” if you want to call it that - the unrealistic expectations, maybe, the desire to find secular salvation in someone who, at the end of the day, is only a politician. But all of that misses the point; Obama, simply and yet very profoundly, represents a sea change. A sea change not only in all that has come before, these past eight years; but a sea change for us, as well; an opportunity to redefine ourselves, to embrace the ideals of pluralism and rationalism and all those other things that have so been under attack in recent years, that Hillary - tied as she is to the past - can simply never represent.