Grant Reeher has been teaching a local political internship course every semester for the past three years, and has supervised numerous students in Washington internships over the past ten years. He is also chair of the American Political Science Association's Organized Section on Undergraduate Education, and edits its newsletter, The Political Science Educator. Steve Davis is Associate Professor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications. Larry Elin is Assistant Professor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications, and co-chair of Newhouse's Media and American Democracy Institute.

• Don't do it, Drew -- Election.dud -- Hype -- Humility -- Hope -- Communities of Belief -- Communities of Action -- Communities of Identity -- Communities of Discourse -- The Future -- Epilogue