YES WE DID!!!!!!!!!!!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!

We can finally get a decent night’s sleep. God bless America. I have nearly never been so happy.

For Myself…

I am off to make those very phone calls she mentioned. My HCG numbers yesterday weren’t great, and although the doctor said everything could “still be fine,” I have been crying hysterically for, oh, the last 12 hours or so. There is nothing we can do but wait, as, at this point, nothing will tell us more but an ultrasound, which we’ll do on Friday. In my head, though, it’s over. So I may as well go make Obama phone calls. Otherwise it’s get in bed, pull the covers up, and feel extraordinarily sorry for myself. That’s not what I want to remember my part being on this historic day. Barack’s Grandma died; he’s still showing up.

So it’s off to The Echo, where the final day of phone banking is taking place.

Volunteering in Nevada

My friend Mary just sent this e-mail from Nevada, where she has gone to do Get Out The Vote. Awesome.

What a great day. Bus to Las Vegas. Here I am at the training for election day in Nevada. It is a VERY organized campaign. We hang VOTE reminders on doorknobs at 6am and continue canvasing throughout the day based on the poll watchers’ information. At 9, 12, and 3, the polls release the very names of those who have voted. The “poll watchers” call these names into a central Obama computer that in return spits out the names and numbers of Democrats who have not voted yet. They forward the phone numbers of the laggers to people like you who are working the phone banks so that you can call them and remind them to vote. They also call us in Nevada and tell us the addresses to visit in person. Amazing.

She attached the following picture of the Obama volunteers receiving their training. Which, of course, brought tears to my eyes:

75,000!!

Kansas City, yesterday:

Thanks to suzieqq’s blog, from whence I grabbed this shot.

Please, God, let this keep building!!! The closer we get, the higher the poll numbers go, the more anxious I get!

Oh, and by the way, sorry for no pictures of the phone bank this week — a lady was borrowing my iphone the whole time. We had 32 callers, though, and made 2,975 calls to Nevada! Whoo!