OH-2: Election Night in the War Room (Photos/Video)

[blue neen]

This is a very interesting article about the excitement last Tuesday night for those who worked for or covered the Hackett campaign. IMHO, it answers some questions but raises more!

Please be sure to view the videos at the end (I couldn't get the pictures to come up).

"At around 6:30 P.M. Bob Brigham, Matt Debergalis, a blogger who shall remain nameless, and I arrived at Cincinnati's Millenium Hotel and checked into our two rooms. We quickly moved into Bob's room and set up shop. Amazingly, there was no wireless connection in the hotel; only the fact that Matt happened to have an ethernet cable allowed us to create a network from his computer. And so began what ended up being one of the most exciting evenings in my life."
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"One of the staffers in the room picked up his cell phone and got the final results from Clermont. It was over, Jean Schmidt had won by some 3000 votes. The phone call to Paul was made, who was waiting at home, informing him of the results--the candidate said he was making his way down to the celebration to concede."
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"We left the room and started the long walk over to the celebration with a number of the staff members that occupied the "war room the entire evening." The mood inside was jubilant. The most tense moment of the evening came when someone approached the representative of WLW 700 AM and told him "F*CK YOU FOR CALLING PAUL HACKETT A BABY KILLER!" He repeated it several times, calling out the radio station that served as a communications wing of the Schmidt campaign in the days leading up the election. THe guy was right. The representative looked scared sh!tless--he was undoubtedly in enemy territory."

"The rest is history. Paul Hackett took the stage and the place went crazy. I'll close with some video clips from the event."

http://www.swingstateproject.com/2005/08/oh-2_election_n_1.php#more

Video - Paul Hackett Takes The Stage
Video - Paul Hackett Shares a Story About Chicken(hawks)
Video - Paul Hackett Thanks His Supporters: "Rock On!"

[Frances]

1. Thanks for the post

I loved the video clips--I don't have TV and so had never heard Paul Hackett. He's great. Will he run for something else? I hope so. He made me proud to be a Democrat.

[blue neen]

2. When he was giving his speech the other night, he gave the

impression that we haven't heard the last of him. (I was lucky enough to
be there at the party).

He's a great speaker isn't he?

[Frances]

3. Yes he is a great speaker

I'd appreciate it if you would keep all of us at DU informed about his plans.