My wife and I lived in Evanston in 2003-2004 and volunteered for Obama's Senate campaign. I've never been able to reconcile the Obama I knew in 2003 with the Obama that emerged once he was POTUS. The local Dem party asked me to be a delegate to the state convention that year, but I declined. I had fresh memories of 2000, (as I still do) when I lived in Iowa and caucused for Bill Bradley. When I went to the local school where my precinct's caucus was held, the room of my ward had walls completely covered with Gore posters. Not a single Bradley anything. When the caucusing happened, the headcount was obvious: 13 people were there for Bradley, 9 for Gore, and one for Gephardt. Somehow that got translated by the ward captains (who wore Gore buttons) into the result that our ward was sending up the chain 8 delegates for Gore and 6 for Bradley. I am guessing that tilting of the results went up the caucusing chain. I clung on as a Democrat until 2016 when they stole the nomination from Bernie, and the corruption I first had a glimpse of in 2000 had taken over everything in the once great Democratic party.