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XemaSab

(60,212 posts) Tue Nov 27, 2012, 11:54 PM Nov 2012

I am so thankful

that in this last election, the coalition between labor, feminists, environmentalists, GLBT individuals, racial minorities, intellectuals, and half a dozen other groups held together.

Even though we have our moments of disagreement, we're all on the same side.

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I am so thankful (Original Post) XemaSab Nov 2012 OP

it did feel good. if felt strong. yes. nt seabeyond Nov 2012 #1

Yes we were organized, and that is heartwarming. hrmjustin Nov 2012 #2

Me too :) nt abelenkpe Nov 2012 #3

Me too! & humbled also by what this means about what is happening to all of us. nt patrice Nov 2012 #4

I was so proud of those people who waited in those long lines so that they could show Booster Nov 2012 #5

they brought tears to my eyes... oldhippydude Nov 2012 #9

Honestly.... ReRe Nov 2012 #6

You know how sibs stick together when outsiders try to break them up? SaveAmerica Nov 2012 #7

+1,000 sheshe2 Nov 2012 #8

You are so right. dmr Nov 2012 #10

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)

1. it did feel good. if felt strong. yes. nt

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Tue Nov 27, 2012, 11:57 PM

Nov 2012

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

2. Yes we were organized, and that is heartwarming.

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Tue Nov 27, 2012, 11:59 PM

Nov 2012

abelenkpe

(9,933 posts)

3. Me too :) nt

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Wed Nov 28, 2012, 12:02 AM

Nov 2012

patrice

(47,992 posts)

4. Me too! & humbled also by what this means about what is happening to all of us. nt

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Wed Nov 28, 2012, 01:05 AM

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Booster

(10,021 posts)

5. I was so proud of those people who waited in those long lines so that they could show

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Wed Nov 28, 2012, 01:46 AM

Nov 2012

you can't buy our country out from under us. I had a smile on my face for a week, but I didn't gloat to my Republican friends. That just didn't seem right. We ALL dodged a bullet that the Mittwit and for that I too am so thankful. Way to go, PEOPLE.

oldhippydude

(2,514 posts)

9. they brought tears to my eyes...

Reply to Booster (Reply #5)

Wed Nov 28, 2012, 02:59 AM

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look what we were up against voter caging.. big money, bad press.. and we still won handily...

those long voting lines will be looked back on much as we look back on the early civil rights movement.. Little Rock Central High.. Birmingham..

ReRe

(10,597 posts)

6. Honestly....

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Wed Nov 28, 2012, 01:53 AM

Nov 2012

I am so thankful. It would have been the end of this country as we know it had Rawmoney gotten in there.

SaveAmerica

(5,342 posts)

7. You know how sibs stick together when outsiders try to break them up?

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Wed Nov 28, 2012, 01:59 AM

Nov 2012

Yeah, like that! Siblings can be at each others throats one minute but when someone tries to mess with one - watch out!!

They sure did try everything to pit group against group (let's get into the black churches and rile them up with the same sex marriage debate) but at the end of the day it did not work!!

This election was AWESOME!!

sheshe2

(83,803 posts)

8. +1,000

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Wed Nov 28, 2012, 02:51 AM

Nov 2012

We are...and we need to continue this fight.

Together we are one!

dmr

(28,347 posts)

10. You are so right.

Reply to XemaSab (Original post)

Wed Nov 28, 2012, 07:31 AM

Nov 2012

It is wonderful.

I'd like to add the youth to this list.

I was so proud to watch my son and daughter-in-law gather their friends and their friends of friends to vote this year; and they have plans to do the same for 2014 because they don't want another tea-bagging 2010 to happen again.

I am very thankful that President Obama will continue to be my, and our President.

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