Victory Party and Inauguration

Hey everyone :) Things have been slowing down finally and life is getting back to normal for Kevin and me. I'm back at State Farm full time (any insurance questions, etc call/email me!) and working with Kevin in the off time. We're going to continue to go to the Democrat Club Meetings (1st Thursday of the month http://www.cecildemocrats.org/) and the Young Democrat Club Meetings (1st Tuesday of the month http://cecilyoungdems.org/) to continue to stay involved. We'd love to see more of you there! Join us!

Anyway, I wanted to have some sort of Victory Party because everyone worked so hard for this Election and we need sometime to celebrate (and to get together and hang out again!). We could have it here at the HQ but the space is limited, so if anyone has ideas let me know. We'll probably just have everyone bring something so we can keep costs down. Any ideas on dates? Anyone want to take charge and plan it? Let me know!

Inauguration- we are going with some friends from New Jersey. If we don't get tickets, we're still going just to be there...anyone want to get a group together to go together, let me know!

I hope everyone is doing well...I haven't talked to you in over a week so I wanted to reach out! It was very nice getting to meet all of you- we've really had a great time this Election season...and I hope that we can keep in contact with you all in the future. Don't be a stranger!!

Cecil County Young Dems

If anyone's interested- Cecil County Young Dems are meeting tonight Tues 6:00 at Chilis in Elkton. Join us!

Update

We had $203 left in our club from shirt sales, etc, and we donated that to the Obama campaign two days before Election Day (they were still asking for donations!). Thanks to everyone who donated and helped out during Campaign Season!

I was worried the day after I donated the rest of the money because I realized that I forgot to buy the movie tickets for the Canvassing and Phonebanking Contests, but figured Kevin and I would just eat the loss since we've had the contest ongoing....

well...I just went through every week and tallied up the winners...for phonebanking I'm the winner!! with 110 calls made from our lists here at HQ, and Kevin's the canvassing winner with 7 canvassing trips from our group. It all works out quite nicely..and ironically! But now we're not out any money! :)

Top 5 phonebankers:
Alissa
Amy Yarnall
Garrett Billmire
Steve Gottlieb
Mike Arms

Top 5 canvassers:
Kevin
Henry Burden
Mike Arms
Pat Timberg
Alissa

Congrats guys! We all worked so hard and we really made an impact! Obama won (previously republican)Chester County PA 54%-45%!!!

What to do with Lieberman?

I found a petition online to have Joe Lieberman removed from his chairmanship on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government. I think that this is actually a pretty important issue for the Dem. senate to reconcile before Obama becomes the President. Joe had the opportunity to respectfully disagree with Obama and the democrats on several issues this campaign, but instead he choose to take every opportunity he got to make slimy claims that Obama does not "put the country first", and being the keynote attack dog at the Republican National Convention. I have no doubt that left in a leadership position, Joe will once again attempt to scam and screw over the Democratic party to further his own self interests and pursue his vendetta against the party that voted him out in the Ct. Senate Primary. Anyone interested in signing the petition go here:
http://action.firedoglake.com/page/petition/nomorejoe

Change is coming

Watch this episode of "Super Barack"...a change is going to come

Now what?

I talked with some of the group members about having a final get together for everyone to relax, chat, eat, and be merry...some sort of Victory Party maybe. So we're working on that and details will follow. Any ideas/suggestions/comments, let me know!

-Alissa

WE DID IT!

Wow! I can't believe it...we really did it! Obama is going to be our next president!!!! Thank you to EVERYONE who donated time, money, energy, and enthusiasm. We couldn't have done this without any of you!

Our group went up to Coatesville on Sunday, Canvassed PA and Cecil County on Monday, and did lots of poll watching in Cecil County and canvassing in PA today. We actually had a Democratic presence at EVERY poll in the County!! We're hoping to keep that up in the future!! We really had all hands on deck- we even had people come in and make phonecalls today. Apparently MoveOn.org signed us up as a call center for GOTV and didn't tell us...haha.

We met up at the Howard House tonight to tally up the votes with the Weygand Campaign. Hodge is leading Sharon by less than 300 votes so we're going to wait for the absentee and provisional ballot tally to come in on Thursday or Friday to find out the final winner. The Kratovil campaign was 1% ahead by about 3,000 votes with 91% reporting when we left the Howard House at 1:00 am...so we'll probably have to wait for absentee ballots for that as well. We all know how the Presidential Race went tonight :) Here are some pictures from canvassing in PA and from the Howard House tonight.

Thanks again everyone! Yes We Did!!!!!!

People around the world are following our Election

"JAKARTA, Indonesia – When Sri Murtiningsi asked her third grade class what they wanted to be when they grew up, the answers ranged from doctors to a pilot. One curly haired boy raised his hand: Barack Obama said his dream was to be president of the United States.
Forty years later Murtiningsi — like the rest of the world — is watching closely as Americans prepare to head to the polls Tuesday.
Many believe Obama's international experience would go a long way in helping repair damage caused by the unpopular U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with recent opinion polls from more than 70 nations favoring him a resounding three-to-one over Republican John McCain.
"Obama the best hope for U.S. revival," an editorial in The Australian Financial Review said Monday, arguing that "the world craves American leadership and never more so than now." The Gulf News, an English-language paper in the United Arab Emirates, had a similar take, saying only he could "undo the great damage done by the Bush administration to America's image," especially the Middle East.
Few if any in the sleepy Japanese coastal town of Obama — which translates as 'little beach' — would disagree. Images of the Democratic candidate adorn banners along a main shopping street and preparations for an election day victory party were in full swing Monday.
Koichi Inoue, who makes traditional Japanese sweet bean cakes, said his factory was working at double normal production because he had promised free handouts for every customer if Obama won.
"It looks like he is going to win from the polls so I've got to be ready," he said.
Interest in the U.S. election is high in Vietnam as well, in part because many people know McCain was shot down in Hanoi while flying an A-4 Skyhawk during a 1967 bombing run and then held prisoner of war for more than five years.
As a U.S. senator in the 1990s he played a key role in helping normalize relations between the two countries.
Many in Pakistan, a close ally in the U.S. war on terror, say they will be glued to television sets and the Internet on election day. The results, they say, will have broad implications for their own country and neighboring Afghanistan, where American forces have been battling the Taliban and its al-Qaida allies.
Violence has spread in recent months from tradition border regions to the capital, Islamabad, where a suicide bombing at the Marriott Hotel recently left more than 50 dead.
The last eight years have "affected our economy and our peace," said Mohammad Zubair, a 33-year-old lawyer in Lahore, who like others was widely anticipating an Obama win. "I hope the election will bring change to Pakistan as well."
The mood at the Indonesian elementary school where Obama studied for two years, meanwhile, was especially upbeat Monday with a crowd of 500 offering prayers for their former student at an early morning flag-raising ceremony.
Former teachers, classmates and friends fondly remember the then-chubby 8-year-old as a hardworking, good-natured and, to their amusement, sometimes naughty child.
Though she is now 69, Murtiningsi's memories of Obama are still strong. She describes standing in front of her class of third graders one Monday morning telling students that when she was young, her dream was to be a teacher.
"You too should follow your dreams," she said, asking the children what they wanted to be. "Barry was the only one who said he wanted to be president. ... I hope his dream comes true." "

Weekend Recap

Happy Election Day Eve! It's all very exciting and nerve-wracking. Well we've had many volunteers from our group going into PA and Cecil County to volunteer canvass and phonebank for Obama and our local Dems Kratovil and Sharon Weygand. Today (Monday) we had the same, and we've had an influx of people wanting to make phonecalls who haven't volunteered yet, so that's a great sign!

Tomorrow's the big day. Right now I suggest you go back to the old post "Les Misbarack" and watch it, then go forward to the post "Disappointed in Mike" and watch that. We can be excited and nervous- but we have to still pass out the word to EVERYONE to vote! Kevin and I and a few others from our group will be meeting at the Acme parking lot in the Big Elk Mall tomorrow at 2:00 pm to go up to Coatesville to help canvass all night. The new office in Coatesville is located at: 750 W Charles St Coatesville PA in a Union Building (they've expanded!). We'd love for anyone and everyone to come join us! If you can't make it up to PA, stay and help in Cecil County...146 E Main St in Elkton is where Clay will be with the Kratovil campaign. He's got about 50 people or so signed up to come in and help, and I know he needs more...also you can go to the obama website: www.my.barackobama.com/call and make calls right from your house. ANYTHING you can do will help.

Call/email/text message your friends, family members, and co-workers to remind them to get out there and vote for Obama/Biden and our local Dems! Polls in MD and PA are open from 7am-8pm and as long as they are in line by 8pm they will be able to vote!

LETS DO THIS! YES WE CAN!!