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[05 Nov 2008|10:50pm] |
this campaign became everything to me- my social life, my hobby, my job, my passion, my religion, my love life, my education, and the thorn in my side that kept me up at night. the stress turned me into a caffeine addict, a total bitch at times, and more than just a social smoker. one of my co-workers told me "you're not really a campaign staffer until your friends and family are angry with you or think you're literally insane", which is when i knew i was really on the team. because of the lack of sleep, i've developed dark circles under my eyes, my hair has been falling out in abnormal amounts, my complexion is shot to shit, and my hair has been rarely clean for the last month. but last night, every moment from the polls closing until we all went home at 3 am, made everything worth it.
we have all worked so hard, not just the staffers and interns, but the amazing volunteers who take their lunch break to come in and make phone calls for barack obama and the volunteers who have jobs and children and mortgages to pay who still find the time to make food and bring it to our office. no one believed we could do this, no one believed that a black man with the middle name 'Hussein', a man who isn't afraid to say the words 'gay' or 'abortion', a man so unabashedly progressive and so unapologetically different from the rest of washington, could ever actually be president. but we did it, we made it happen here in new hampshire as well as across the rest of the country. it was all worth it, every single second.
my goal was to win merrimack, because it's my town, my turf, and the place i focused on the most during the last three months. merrimack has been historically republican, and we knew that winning it would be a long shot. i didn't quite reach that goal, but here's something incredible: john kerry, a rich white vietnam veteran, the most merrimack-friendly democrat you could possibly ask for, lost the town of merrimack to george bush in 2004 by about 1400 votes. barack obama, one of the most liberal candidates we've frankly ever seen, lost merrimack by only about 300 votes. we, the merrimack team, are the reason that margin is so small. even that is enough to make me feel like we won the town.
infinite thank yous to every single person who voted (no matter who you cast your ballot for, thank you for exercising your rights). thank you to every friend who was understanding about me not being around for the last several weeks, and thank you to the rest of the interns and staff who became my new best friends when i couldn't be with my own. thank you (even though i know none of them are reading this) to the manchester hq team, and the field crew in particular, who inspired me, motivated me, made me smile every day, and changed my life forever.
the incredible manchester field team, with our absolutely brilliant operations director samir in the back.
you are all a part of history, every person who witnessed this election. a new chapter is beginning, and we are the generation that is going to change everything. winning this election was the easy part- the hard work really starts now.
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[28 Sep 2005|09:36pm] |
i think i'm going to take a break from this livejournal stuff for a while. i feel like i can't even say what i want to say anymore, and this is too...public. i don't know, maybe i'll just be gone for a week, or maybe permanently.
♥
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[28 Jul 2005|11:59pm] |
FRIENDS ONLY
FRIENDS ONLY
FRIENDS ONLY
FRIENDS ONLY
FRIENDS ONLY
FRIENDS ONLY
FRIENDS ONLY
FRIENDS ONLY
FRIENDS ONLY
FRIENDS ONLY
FRIENDS ONLY
FRIENDS ONLY
FRIENDS ONLY
okay? k.
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