Our First Step

Our First Step

12 1/2 months ago, I stepped foot on American soil for the first time in over a year. I wasn’t wearing a flag lapel pin, and my passport had stamps from some rather unseemly countries (Turkey, the Emirates, Malaysia, to name a few), my hair was long, and I was...

Now, this is Rapid Response

One reason that the Obama campaign is winning is because of their excellent rapid response system. It wasn’t always this way, in actuality, the campaign began their rapid response “War Room” in October. Not coincidentally, about then was when he...

Baracking the Kansas Caucus

Caucusing in Kansas: Aussie Football to Iowa’s Croquet Last night, I was swept up in a sea of change in the most unlikely of places. Suburban Johnson County, a diehard, Republican area where Democrats rarely fare well. But last night, something amazing happened....

Scorecard

My voice is croaky from shouting at the Kansas caucus, and trying to get the huge turnout of 1,600 people signed in and organized in a room that was prepared to hold maybe 400 people. It was, I have to say, quite the experience. States: (bold designates a swing...