New Orleans        Sometimes politics is not simply money and engineering, and in fact represents a movement of people that expresses itself in surprising and dramatic fashion.  It is those times when we have to most carefully stop, look, and listen, and make sure we hear the train’s whistle clearly and either get on board …

New Orleans     Having run campaigns through the Iowa caucuses, it is hard to have warm feelings about them, largely because my first memory is of single-digit, gray, freezing days in Des Moines in January. In 1980 particularly we had teams of ACORN organizers and members door knocking all over the state in four foot …