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Originally posted by: IrishEyes
As for the results... while anxiously awaiting the final tallies from many states, I heard one of the newsies talking about the Wisconsin results. Most of the precincts had been counted already, but the ones that hadn't were mostly from a major city. This major city had a small but vey dedicated group of Kerry supporters that had reached MANY people, and could very well be the reason that Kerry might take that state. Now I have to tell you, when I heard that newsie, I just got a huge grin on my face. It didn't matter which person won overall at that point. What was truly awesome was that a small group of people could make that much of a difference. WAY TO GO!!!

Why thanks Irish. I will take that as a personal congradulations.

However (as usual) let me make a few corrections. :-)

1) I understand the delay in reporting results was due to a computer malfunction. But yes it was from Milwaukee area which is a largest voting block and mainly Democratic.

2) It is NOT a SMALL group. It was literally thousands of volunteers from not just the one major city, but across the whole state. We had a "Convention" two weeks before the election that had the largest number of "delegates" to ever attend a political convention in WI ever. And it was just the Milwaukee location with almost 50 other such "conventions" happening at the same time around the state. People came from across the country to help win this swing state.

I was one of the primary "vey dedicated group of (anybody but Bush) supporters that had reached MANY people, and (was) the reason that Kerry (DID) take that state.". Many hours of knocking on doors, telephone bank call center time, providing dozens of yard signs, working Kerry events and spending the entire day at one poll location as the official Democratic Party "Poll Watcher" with 3 voting wards.

But I do agree that the size of the turnout was very satisfying to see. Especially the number of NEW voters! We were swamped with new registrations at my poll location. Wisconsin is one of the few states that allow same day on the spot registration and voting.