Election Day

Linda, Me, and Teresa plotting our strategy over lunch

I slept late on Election Day, venturing out of the hotel at about 11:30 to have lunch with Teresa (from Florida) and Linda (from Connecticut), volunteers I had met over the previous days. Our primary goal for the day was to figure out how to gain entrance to the evening's victory party, scheduled for the Grand Ballroom of our very own hotel!

We were in a festive mood; we had worked hard for the campaign and intended to play hard in celebration of the anticipated victory. We were impressed by the line up of the press vans and the general feeling of electricity in and around the hotel.

Teresa, Linda, and I ran all around the hotel, using contacts we had built over the previous week until we eventually gained entrance to the Grand Ballroom, as the first non-press attendees.