BBC Pop Up is looking for issues that will resonate in other parts of the country and internationally, but the project also aims to reflect the diversity of American life.
In other words, collections of choices are looking for problems, issues and feelings are looking for decision situations in which they might be aired, solutions are looking for issues to which they might be the answers, and decision makers are looking for work.
All his life, in the words of his most devoted critic, the eloquent David Sylvester, Bacon was "an old-fashioned militant atheist who always seemed to be looking for pretexts to issue a reminder that God was dead and to bang a few nails into his coffin".
Smart politicians will be looking for ways to make those issues their own – and to prove where they stand in the months between now and 2016.
Dave Temkin, a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers from Queens who works for a telecommunications company, will be looking for concern for "working people's issues, particularly labor".
The team will be looking for clues on a variety of issues, including where the explosive devices were placed and how they were detonated, he said.
But voters who see drug policy and criminal justice reform as key issues might be looking for a greater transformation.
What they are looking for are issues that are contested enough to feel hot, but that have pretty strong consensus from the tastemakers, mavens and social-media influencers of the day.
"It's a hunt-and-peck type market," said Alan Ackerman, executive vice president of Fahnestock & Company .Bargain hunters are looking for specific issues, and their timetable is extremely short.
Sounds a lot like what Governor Pataki told the mothers' group in June: "I hope there are not those in Albany who are looking for political issues as opposed to impacting people's lives".
