A sprint to the finish
Actually, we have the morning off. We just had breakfast and finally figured out the Wi-Fi configuration at the Tropicana.
I'm sitting on a concourse where I can reach the Wi-Fi hotspont and watching people walk by. I'm seeing a lot of our Planned Parenhood compatriots walk by with their red "Stand Up For Choice" t-shirts.
We're meeting at the staging area at 12:30 and will probably work until 8 p.m. tonight to catch the people just coming home from work.
The polls tracked by electoral-votes.com show that the momentum is in Kerry's favor. The site has Kerry with 298 electoral votes right now. But, they still show mixed results for Nevada with most recent polls showing Bush ahead by 3-5 points.
For the record, I believe Kerry will win Nevada, and most of the poll results we see today are 2 to 5 points off what will actually happen tomorrow. Why? Most previously undecided voters will ultimately vote for Kerry. So will a majority of young, first-time voters like Nick, the Vietnamese-American Stanford sophomore who walked with us yesterday. At the end of the afternoon, we had to cajole Nick and Sarah to stop for the day. We picked them up in front of a gated apartment community. They literally had to crawl under a gate to get in (and out). If this level of passion represents their generation, the world can breathe a sigh of relief after tomorrow.
It will be an inspiring, beautiful, hopeful thing if it turns out that young people make the difference. As James Carville said on Today this morning, the youth are going to turn out to take back their country. He and I agree: Kerry is going to win big tomorrow.


4 Comments:
Thanks so much for your efforts for this, which is the most important election of our lives. Also want to thank you for your optimism. I needed that today. I will go to sleep with your comment on my mind - "Kerry is going to win big tomorrow"!!!
Maria
ooooooh, I hope you're right. Maybe I'll get some champagne chilling after all. Wish I could come up with a more original way to say "keep up the good work," but that's all I got for you. You guys rule.
I haven't seen the talkshows myself but there's a lot of blog chatter tonight about major broadcast blowhards starting to lay the groundwork for a Kerry victory. As someone observerd, the rats are lining up on the railing, gauging the distance to the water.
It's a beautiful thing. Tomorrow's the day, as you and others have said, to take back our country.
Thanks for all your encouragement! It's energizing.
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