I’m writing this on a lunch break from campaigning for Barack Obama in Henderson, NV. My friends Robi<\/a>, Jenni<\/a>, and I flew out from San Francisco (*early*) Saturday morning, and have been knocking on doors pretty much non-stop since.<\/p>\n It’s finally Election Day, and we’re each coping with the anxiety\/excitement in our own ways. Now as we sit here with MSNBC on 3 tvs at the bar, it’s impossible to avoid the significance of the historical moment<\/a> soon at hand. Obviously, I have a tremendously vested interest in the outcome of the presidential election. And, I strongly urge everyone to act still today – if you haven’t voted, do it; if you’ve voted, phone bank<\/a> or just call or text your friends and remind them to vote.<\/p>\n However, I feel we’ve already won a great victory for democracy in this country just by getting to this point:<\/p>\n I’m extremely happy all of this has\u00a0already\u00a0been achieved. And to be honest, I’m not sure I would have believed that even these things were possible just a few years ago. But I’m greedy, and as great as these achievements are, they’re not nearly enough<\/strong>!<\/p>\n Now, let’s get out there and use the rest of this day to do what we can to elect Barack Obama and defeat CA Prop 8!!!<\/p>\n I’m writing this on a lunch break from campaigning for Barack Obama in Henderson, NV. My friends Robi, Jenni, and I flew out from San Francisco (*early*) Saturday morning, and have been knocking on doors pretty much non-stop since. It’s finally Election Day, and we’re each coping with the anxiety\/excitement in our own ways. When … Continue reading “Why we’ve already won.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[128],"tags":[190,227,216,228,195,229,224,200,219],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep_thoughts","tag-barack-obama","tag-barackobama","tag-california-proposition-8","tag-election-day","tag-election08","tag-karl-rove","tag-noonprop8","tag-politics","tag-proposition-8"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhen we got up at 5am, I was pretty freaked out about all the things that could go wrong today.
<\/a> But, getting out there knocking on doors has been a great (and productive) distraction. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n
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