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I'll have a lot more tomorrow on this race, its implications, and why we won. There was a lot of innovation around independent groups, blogging, and progressive movement building, and hopefully a good amount of it can be documented. But for now, I must avoid pneumonia (five hours in freezing rain and no sleep will do that to you), so here are some pictures to tide you over.
This is Adrienne Christian, campaign manager for Donna, and deputy campaign manager for Jim Webb in 2006. She made this shirt after Wynn accused us of a vast left-wing conspiracy.
And here's a taste of the weather on election day, a mix of freezing rain, regular rain, and clouds coming out the sky to periodically punch me in the face.
This is Donna just after she took to the podium to give her victory speech.
On a personal level, I have been working on this for three years. I spent a lot of time at the campaign volunteering and working with them, pretty much camping out there for stretches of time. So this is very gratifying. In this particular race, the money you donated was extremely high leverage, and the time you gave, particularly towards the end, really mattered. Blogpac actually gave $1000 to Donna's campaign, the first candidate donation we've ever made.
I'll have more soon on the different progressive groups coming together and what it meant. This was a huge victory for new labor, environmentalists, bloggers, Moveon, and progressives in general. Energy and telecom lobbyists got smacked. Incumbents should take note that Donna has an aggressive and progressive agenda and she's going to pursue it, and that agenda is backed by organized groups and fundamentally, the voters.
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