What we want to do is move the center left.

We have just succeeded that way.

We need to rehabilitate the Republican center, thereby isolating the right.

We need to focus on bringing Republicans with us.

The super majority required to close debate in the Senate is thus a valuable tool because it requires that we work to broaden areas of agreement and of respectful disagreement.

In other words we want to work with the party of Lincoln against the party of DeLay.

- George Conk, New York City

I want physical evidence that I voted for Obama and Biden

I have never before walked up to the polls fighting back tears.

I keep thinking about Frederick Douglass, and DuBois and King, and even Booker T. Washington.

And I think about Robert Kennedy - the only other candidate in my lifetime to whom I attached so much hope.

- George Conk, New York City