Where were you one year ago?

[pf99]

After a day that began at 5:00 am at 7:30 pm we closed down our staging location and I went to check and see if there were any lines at our city's largest polling location. There were no lines

As I was driving to our party at a local bar, I heard the call of PA for Obama on the trip to the bar. So far so good.

At about 9:30 (and I can tell you where exactly I was and who I was talking to) I heard this tremendous roar and looked up at the TV screen to see Ohio colored in Blue. The bar went nuts!!!!!!!!! Also our county (I live in Ohio) had flipped from red to blue.

At 11:00 pm the official call was made!

I still get a tingling feeling when I think about November 4, 2008

[ddeclue]

1. Cambridge England - see my OP.. I tell the story. nt

[stranger81]

2. At the hospital, telling my dying father Barack had won.

He died three days later. The last good conversation we had before his stroke was about what a moron Sarah Palin is.

God bless my Dad, and god bless Obama.

[SallyMander]

14. ...

[Ineeda]

3. At a party. We all cried and drank champagne. n/t

[babylonsister]

4. At home, crying tears of happiness. And feeling very proud

of my country for finally doing the right thing.

[Fire1]

7. Me too. I thought this country had turned the corner. n/t

[gateley]

5. I was sitting here watching the returns with my brother and sister-in-law. When

the announcer said "we're calling it for Obama" -- it didn't sink in! It was still fairly early here (Seattle) so I thought we'd be waiting hours. It was a slow, mind-expanding dawning that Obama had WON!

I've thought about it several times since then, almost like experiencing an accident -- almost surreal, not totally comprehending, then boom! Wow!

[question everything]

6. After 2004, must have been nice to be in Ohio in 2008

and in Florida.

[pf99]

10. An incredible sense of accomplishment

There was an incredible sense of accomplishment in that Ohio bar that night.

[livetohike]

8. At 7:30 EST, I was still at our polling place since I was working there

I didn't get home until 9:00 p.m. and then my husband and I sat in front of the tv watching the results come in. It was a wonderful night . We popped a bottle of champagne when the election was called for Obama.

[AllentownJake]

9. They called Indiana to close to call

So I told my field organizer I was going to the bar. We had won.

PA was called when I walked into the bar.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. Times Square, where I took video of the moment of victory:

http://www.youtube.com/user/SADUNYC

On the train ride back home, *everybody* was happy -- and actually talking to each other!

[EndersDame]

12. Me on the porch in Wacko TX with victory Champagne

Alot of my neighborhood was celebrating as well! Although I will say my landlady was probably saying a prayer because the anti christ won(seriously she was a nut case)

i am glad i am in austin now!

[SallyMander]

13. Hey from another Ohioan!

We had a party at my place -- we have a big outdoor wall with no windows, so we projected MSNBC up REAL BIG on the wall! People all brought chairs and blankets to sit on. Many cars slowed down and honked when they passed and saw the projection. We live in a really blue little neighborhood so we had neighbors wandering by just come on into the yard and stay. We also had maps of the USA and red/blue crayons for people to color them in! Hahahaha... nerdy but fun.

When they called Ohio my phone started going CRAZY because all of my friends/family out of state knew how much I'd been doing here -- but i couldn't even answer because i was BAWLING, i mean really sobbing my eyes out, not like a delicate little ladylike *tear* It was just so much pent-up emotion, remembering how things had gone in '04 after I had busted my butt for months...

I haven't agreed with every decision that's been made in the last year, that's for sure, but it's a damn lot better than what we'd be getting with McCain/(shudder)Palin!!!

[CreekDog]

15. in Reno, Nevada counting our targeted voters for Obama campaign

at 5:30pm when they said I was done for the day, I drove across the valley as the snow flurries fell. I was worried they'd sent me home early (polls would close at 7pm) because there was something wrong.

so back to my hotel room where I watched election coverage while gabbing to my aunt in Pennsylvania, until about 6:30 or so,
when she asked me, "how many electoral votes does California have?" and I said "55"
and she said, "because they have Obama at 200"
and I told her, "wow, that means we won, because when California comes in so will Washington, Oregon and Hawaii. After California we only need 15 more and those states have them!"

I congratulated her and told her I had a victory party to get to.

and I went to Nevada Democrats Victory party at the Grand Sierra Casino where I caught up with some volunteers I'd met in Nevada (many, if not most of us from the Bay Area)

unforgettable. I spent four days up in Nevada for the election and was glad to do it.

[WolverineDG]

16. Worked at party HQ all day

then snuck out at 7 to hang with my friends from the primary at someone's house. Lots of eats & drinks, & going insane when MSNBC announced Obama won at 10 pm (central)

Pic:



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[pf99]

17. Just got this e-mail from David Plouffe

With a link containing a special message from our President

http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/nov4video

[DainBramaged]

18. Right here

[madamesilverspurs]

19. Our county Democratic party

had rented the party room at a restaurant across the street from HQ. The room is meant to hold about 60 people, and we rapidly overflowed into the whole place. We were surrounded by televisions, and the first WHOOOP of the evening came when Betsy Markey was declared the winner over Marilyn Musgrave; Markey was there with us for a bit before she went to finish the evening with her peeps in Ft. Collins. Next WHOOOP was getting Mark Udall elected to the Senate. And when the numbers came up for the west coast -- whooping and hollering and cheers and dancing and everyone EVERYONE was crying! Truly one of the most amazing times of my life. Still brings on tears when they show the videos.

And for the sake of being fair and balanced, we checked the video from the GOP gathering. It looked and sounded as though it was being held at a funeral parlor. (insert great big evil grin right here)

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