Politics with people, reinvented: Paul Wellstone wants to win it clean--with zeal, volunteers and a new-model, old-fashioned campaign.

I. THE BACK OF THE BUS

When Paul Wellstone decided last year that he would seek re-election to the U.S. Senate after all, much of his old operation was in mothballs. The volunteers had long since stood down. The legendary big green bus that had carried him all around Minnesota was in some museum way up in Hibbing, where Bob Dylan grew up and where notable buses, apparently, go to die.

The bus had been the symbol of Wellstone's first campaign, his 1990 shoestring, long-shot bid for the Senate. It was something of a relic even then--a 1968 Chevy that two campaign volunteers ...

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