This time tomorrow we'll know. Thanks to all who are working now and tomorrow, have worked these past weeks and months, haven't slept and haven't seen their families in a month. You know who you are.
Two years ago Kos wrote a great and inspiring essay that pushed me to work harder than than I thought I could. It can be found here:
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Tomorrow, whatever the final numbers, we are so much better off then we were just two years ago. We are way better off than 4 years ago, and immeasurably better off than just six years ago, when we first came together and thought we had a win, only to face utter devastation.
We've made progress every year since that day. And it's not incremental, there's a huge difference in this country because of what we've done and who we've elected since that horrible November of 2004. We're a better country than we were then, despite the economy, the Supreme Court, and the crazy people running around spouting gibberish and maybe getting elected tomorrow (Some of them, probably.)
We're a country where people--even the crazy ones--can stand up and be heard again. Where the executive branch actually enforces regulations like drug and food safety, toy dangers, mining regulations instead of letting lobbyists and their clients 'inspect themselves'. Where intelligence agencies can actually follow up leads and intercept plots and work with foreign agencies instead of announcing red alerts and blowing the cover off investigations before we (or our allies) can actually nab the bad guys. Where somehow we did manage to get HCR, and despite Republican chest-thumping, it's not going to be taken away from us.
I would have laughed at you in November 2004 if you told me all this would have come to pass within 6 years. You'd have done the same to me. We left it all on the road in 2004, 2006, 2008, and we've come so far. Leave it on the road this time, too.