Here is an article about the Obama cult of personaility.

http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/20/the-cult-of-obama/

It does not appear to me that it is only the "non-thinking" portion of the population that are supporting Obama. It appears that many well-off whites support him, as well as almost all of what are called "intellectuals." Most college professors are Obama supporters. Of course, they are mostly left-wingers, and it may be that "non-thinkers" is an accurate description of most professors who are not in engineering or the hard sciences.

Take a look at comment 3. to this article. The list of what Obama favors is very long, and contains a lot that I am against. Obama is clearly a socialist, based on what he favors.