Really nice piece about in Salon this week about the growing army of Wes Clark fanatics. (All they lack now is a catchy name--what's the holdup on that?):

The general and his ground troops

A few glimpses:

Many of Clark's followers say that while Dean speaks to their rage, Clark, four-star general, intellectual, humanitarian and war hero, speaks to their longing for something higher. . . .  "Dean makes me angry about the present," [a struggling mom] writes in an e-mail. "Clark, on the other hand, gives me HOPE for the future. Hope feels better than anger." . . .

After a month in the Democratic primary race, Clark's professional campaign, based in Little Rock, Ark., is just starting to coalesce, but his grass-roots movement, tens of thousands of ardent supporters and volunteers nationwide, is already large and expanding rapidly. Numerically, Clark's ground troops are not yet any match for Dean's, but if his momentum continues, they may be soon. In May, there were only a few hundred people registered to attend Clark events through the Internet organizing site MeetUp.com. Now he's second only to Howard Dean on the site, with 40,100 people registered. (Dean, who pioneered the use of MeetUp as a campaign tool, has 124,800 people signed up.) And even if his followers are fewer than Dean's, they're just as fanatical. Clark is igniting a desperate hope in supporters, something they describe in the language of love and religion. He can save us, they say. Over and over, they use the same phrase: "He's the one."

From Donna Brazile:

". . . because the race is wide open, having a movement will be an asset. Right now, the only two campaigns that exhibit that are the Dean campaign and the Clark campaign. Dean created a movement, Clark was started by one."