Organizing for America | Military Mom 4 Obama: Election night...

Election night...

By Marcia--One who believes in Dreams! - Nov 8th, 2008 at 8:53 am EST

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November 4, 2008, I was exhausted but too excited to sleep! I had worked the polls, up at 3am to be there at 4:45 to set up for the doors to open at 6. We were very busy in the morning, the line wrapped around the church with early voters (they were all ready lining up when I arrived)! It was a steady stream of voters all day after the morning rush and then we prepared for the evening rush. In the precinct I worked over 80% of the voters had all ready cast their ballots, so we didn't have an evening rush. We actually closed on time! My husband went to the hospitals for those to vote who had been emergently hospitalized and hadn't had the opportunity to absentee vote. I was amazed at the organization here in St. Charles County. This was another 1st for me, not only have I not ever been so involved with a campaign before, but I definitely had never worked the polls. It was exhilirating and I'm sure I'll do it again (but I hope the next time I won't be working with a herniated disc!). We grabbed a little something to eat on the way back home and settled in to wait for the results, expecting a long night...WOW, were we elated when the results came in so early and we're still walking in the clouds. To live to see this moment in history and to have been a part of it. To have been blessed to have shaken his hand during the Gateway Arch Rally. I will never forget the months, the years, that brought us to this place in time. My husband heard someone say: "Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King, Jr. could march for Barack Obama to run and our children would fly!" Now, the real work begins...are you ready?

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