Neoteric wrote:
] It's not a big secret that I've spent the last 8 months
] working first for John Kerry for President then for
] Kerry-Edwards 2004. I wanted to post a thank you to everyone
] that supported us. This was my first political campaign of any
] sort. And while the ups were awesome (post super-tuesday) and
] the lows sucked (wednesday, Nov 3rd, at 5am) I wouldn't give
] up this experiance for anything. Our campaign showed that
] internet and politics are here to stay.
]
] This campaign isn't John Kerry's loss as much as George Bush's
] win. We hit all of our numbers. We hit all of our targets, we
] motivated our base and got out a large part of the vote (yes
] I'm still bitter over the 3M 18-25'ers that registered but
] didn't vote). We got half the popular vote (or something
] reasonably close to it). They didn't blow our doors off and
] wrt to the EC it came down to 150k votes in OH. In a race of
] over 100M votes that's close to 0.1%. A very tight race
] indeed.
]
] There's gonna be a shake up in the democratic party. (The
] -thunk- sound wednesday morning was all the power leaving the
] democratic party.) There will be a lot of introspection over
] the next year. Hopefully we can get our base together and draw
] strength from what we've lost this election season. I'm still
] a democrat. I still believe in the positive power of the
] federal goverment. I think health care should be available to
] everyone. I think that we should encourage jobs to stay in the
] united states. And most importantly I believe the goverment
] should encourage scientists and researchers to push the
] envelope in their fields, because more knowledge isn't a bad
] thing.
]
] Yes I'm scared about our future, and I hope President Bush
] keeps his promise (again) to unite the country. But I'm done
] crying and attending "this sucks" parties. We can buck up. We
] will win. Fuck that guy.
]
] --timball="For a better tomorrow."

Nicely put Tim:)

RE: Thanks, everyone, for your support.