The Community Organizer

Saul Alinsky is alive and well and living in New Hampshire.

From The Field (the best "horse-race" blog out there, IMO):

The personal connection – candidate to organizer – is one of peers: in reality it is organizer to organizer. It’s the same relationship that you want all the campaign staff and volunteers to have if you want a successful campaign that is also a movement. And that’s a big part of why, if Obama wins by a landslide margin (ten points or more) on Tuesday, as I’m predicting here even before tonight’s big debate, he will have done so. America may be electing a president, but it may get, in the deal, the first national community organizer-in-chief.

And since I made a Jacques Brel reference, here's Mathilde: