David Blumenthal was until recently the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Policy at Harvard Medical School and a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has advised Democratic presidential candidates from Michael Dukakis to Barack Obama, and now works on health issues for the Obama Administration. James A. Morone is Professor and Chair of Political Science at Brown University and the author of "Hellfire Nation "and "The Democratic Wish, "a "New York Times "Notable Book and winner of the Gladys Kammerer Award of the American Political Science Association.