Blue Hens and Elections

It's a great week to be a Smart Blue Hen! In the past 72 hours, Democrats took control of the House and the Senate, Donald Rumsfeld resigned as Secretary of Defense, and we finally have a woman in the position of Speaker of the House. Here in Delaware, the hard work and campaigning of the College Democrats proved fruitful as we watched many of our favored candidates pull in decisive victories.

On Election Day we traveled down to the State Party Headquarters in New Castle, leaving Newark at 9:30 in the morning and spending most of the day doing visibility, canvassing, and phone banking up until the polls closed at 8 pm. It was an exciting operation and we were surrounded everywhere we went by like minded volunteers. Of course, the culmination of it all was cheering alongside our fellow Democratic Delawarians at the big returns party in Wilmington that evening.

Despite it all, the best part of this whole election season was campaigning across the state with the rest of the College Dems. It was the hours we spent stickering children, dropping literature, and generally getting lost in our weekly travels that finally gave way to Election Night's victorious speeches and celebratory balloons. We learned about the political process through our actions, and met and some really awesome people along the way. And so, it was our combined efforts since the start of the Fall Semester (and in many cases before then) that made Tuesday's outcome so sweet.

Of course, meeting Senator Joe Biden at the returns party was pretty exciting...