The people here are following the issue carefully enough that they're aware of that detail.

So the sense of where the problem is has shifted as people become more sophisticated about what exactly is going on.

If he was out there hugging kids and feeling people's pain, he'd become a huge and important symbol.

But the party doesn't want that - it would undermine the current leadership, and he'd be accused of boosting Hillary to the detriment of some other possible frontrunners in 2008.