Yes, it is, Carol, especially today -- and the supporters I've met of both Dean and Kucinich, people like me who've never become involved so early and so deeply in any presidential campaign, all feel the same way. This time it's too important to "wait and see." In fact, I feel much more in sync with these "rival" supporters than I do with ABBs complacently (or despairingly -- it has much the same effect) sitting back and passively waiting for that "anyone" to appear.

I'm curious about about the key issues that turned you off, though. Could you say more? Because I admit to a core, well, naivete in my attachment to Clark -- I believe that *he* truly does believe in America's "better self" (as I put it) or (as he puts it) in the unique constitutional and environmental heritage that we ought to be passing on to our children and grandchildren and that he sees George Bush destroying. How corny that sounds! And how surprised I was to find myself starting my letters to New Hampshire voters (and Iowan and Arizonan and . . .) with "dear fellow American" -- I, who'd never been a flag waver and wasn't even sure, as a child, if I was an American citizen (I'd secretly hoped that I wasn't!), to be saying that and, I suddenly realized, really meaning it!

Clark has that effect on people. His "vision of America" is no gimmick, and I think it's a large part of his appeal across a broad range of the political spectrum.   I may not share all of his "positions" but I trust his long-term sense of America a heck of a lot more than I do George Bush's. And I think he'll give Bush one hell of a fight.