This energy is going to carry us all the way, ... Whoever would have thought we'd be met by this kind of crowd in the middle of the night?

But there was this energy around us. We sold out fast, and we thought, 'We can actually do this.

sickens and frightens all of us.

If only we'd had someone who knew Iowa politics in the room with us just before the Des Moines Register debate, to warn us about the former New Jersey senator's procedural vote against flood insurance.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"

Yes, that thought has occurred to us.