I have been in headquarters since early this morning where every phone is ringing off the wall. It has been this way since 7:00am. Of course, we also got thousands of calls over the weekend.

The enthusiasm over the election is infectious. I have also been subjected to a lot of email “abuse” from people upset about the caucus process. It certainly gives us a chance to educate folks, although a bit late.

What I did want to share with you is the fact that our message did get out to a lot of people. Between September 1 and December 5, 2007, 18,063 people registered as Democrats with the Secretary of State’s office. And 10,561 people affiliated themselves with Democrats during the same time period. So that means we have over 28,000 new voters in the Colorado Democratic Party.

Anticipating tonight’s turnout, Jefferson County has reported up to 800 caucus goers in a non-Presidential year and 1200 caucus goers in 2004, when we had a Presidential caucus. They are estimating 8,000 participants tonight.

All of this is great for the Party and for democracy.

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