Victory Is Ours

I'm still recovering from the last few days- I very nearly killed myself campaigning in the last week. Sprains, possible stress fractures, vomiting blood, etc. But it was worth it.

We crushed them. Utterly. For the first time since I moved to Burnsville, I have a Democratic State Representative (Will Morgan) and a Democratic State Senator (John Doll). Will won all 10 precincts in his district, John won 21 of 25 in his.

It was like this all over the place. Tim Walz won in CD1. Jon Tester won in Montana. Jim Webb won in Virginia. Claire McCaskill won in Missouri. Sheldon Whitehouse won in Rhode Island. All sorts of amazing wins.

There were a lot of campaigns I really, really wanted to see win, ones I got really emotionally invested in, that didn't, and that's hard. Dean Johnson effectively sacrificed himself for the rest of the party and to do what's right. I wanted to see a solid win for Mike Hatch, wins for Patty Wetterling (CD6), Ned Lamont (CT-Sen), Peter Goldmark (WA-05), etc, etc. I wish Kristin Hedger had won for ND's Secretary of State. I hope that we build on all of those, and prepare for next time.

I'm mostly glad we have so many victories, though (and hope I can finally get a job...) - this changes everything.

I'm going to take some time to recover, to heal, to analyze. And then it's back to my mission in life- defeat every Republican, everywhere, and make sure they don't come back.

And I've been quoting this a lot since Tuesday night: As Genghis Khan and Conan the Barbarian said: "What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!"