Barack Obama: “Marisa Demeo and Florence Pan have dedicated their careers to serving the public good and they will be esteemed and…”

Now the ball’s in your court, Iowa.

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.

The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.

The success of this experiment was never a given.