"The 'people's convoy' making friends and getting breakfast served in Oakland," quipped one area resident.

Assemblymember Buffy Wicks' request to vote by proxy was denied, so she came to work with her infant.

Inside the Obama campaign, almost without anyone noticing, an insurgent generation of organizers has built the Progressive movement a brand new and potentially durable people's organization, in a dozen states, rooted at the neighborhood level.