The Home Stretch, or Politics Is a Team Sport

by: Darcy Burner

Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 21:21

Today, Tonia is making phone calls in my office in Bellevue asking people to vote. Today, Nick is calling donors asking them to help with another contribution - and many of you are. Steve is out going door-to-door getting out the vote. I called one of my donors earlier (between meet-and-greets and canvassing of my own) and the housesitter told me she was in Ohio; I left a message wishing her all my best getting out the vote there.

All over this country, we are working to change it. And I believe we are going to succeed.

Barack Obama and his team have run a revolutionary Presidential campaign, with unparalleled numbers of donors and volunteers stepping up to help. It's inspiring to watch. But it's not just at the Presidential level: participation in races like mine and Sam Bennett's and Rick Noriega's and Scott Kleeb's and Eric Massa's and Gary Trauner's has been unbelievable.

That participation fills the promise this country was founded on: government of, by, and for the people. We need no rulers other than ourselves.

So to all of you who have donated to my campaign or somebody else's, who have volunteered, who have read about and written about and talked about the choices we face, who have fought for a better country, I say this:

Thank you.

I'm honored to be working shoulder-to-shoulder with such as you, getting our country back on track. We're almost there.

Yes we can.

And yes we will.