Note: I am Media Coordinator and Netroots and Rapid Response Committee Co-Chair for the Tampa Bay O-Train, Florida's largest, most organized, and active presidential grassroots organization.
It was a thing like hope.
It was a thing like hope that began this movement on the steps of the Illinois State Capitol on a cold day last February.
Cross-posted
It was a thing like hope that made history in the snows of Iowa and carried us through to the green mountains of New Hampshire and the deserts of Nevada. It was a thing like hope that brought us south to the beaches and the Piedmont and the tobacco fields of South Carolina. And it was a thing like hope that won last night.
It was a thing like hope that sloughed off the chains of the old guard--the politics of division, of cynicism, of destruction that have dominated the American political landscape for far too many decades. And it was a thing like hope that called upon nearly 300,000 ordinary South Carolinians to come together to do something extraordinary, to rebuke soundly and definitively the tired political rhetoric and underhanded tactics that seek to bring us down and tear us apart. But it was a thing like hope that lifted us back up and pushed us through the naysayers, the cynics, and the subversives to where we stand today. It is a thing like hope that will win.
To those who try to minimalize us and what we've accomplished, those who peddle in half-truths, mischaracterizations, and outright lies, we say: You will not prevail. Hope will win the day. It has gotten us this far. And now it will get us a little farther.
Thanks, everyone. Keep up the great work, and thanks especially to all of our committed volunteers who made the trek up to South Carolina, making last night possible.