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After four great months, in every corner of this website, we have the most votes, the most delegates and the most diverse coalition of Americans that we've seen in a long, long time.
You can see it in the faces here today. There are young and old, rich and poor. They are black and white, Latino and Asian and Native American.
They are Democrats from Des Moines and independents from Concord and, yes, some Republicans from rural Nevada. And we've got young people all across this website who have never had a reason to participate until now.
Make no mistake about what we're up against. We're up against the belief that it's all right for other polls to dominate our website, that they are just part of the system in VJLand.
But we know that the undue influence of poll-lobbyists is part of the problem and this poll is our chance to say that we are not going to let them stand in our way anymore.
We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as The Biggest Poll - EVER comes from longevity in VJLand or proximity to the Ewok. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose.
And this poll is our chance to give the American people a reason to believe again.
The change we seek has always required great struggle and great sacrifice. And so this is a battle in our own hearts and minds about what kind of website we want and how hard we're willing to work for it.
So let me remind you tonight that change will not be easy. Change will take time. There will be setbacks and false starts and sometimes we'll make mistakes.
But as hard as it may seem, we cannot lose hope, because there are people all across this great nation who are counting on us, who can't afford another four years without The Biggest Poll - EVER, that can't afford another four years without Bosco, that can't afford another four years without doughnuts because our leaders couldn't come together and get it done.
The choice in this poll is not between regions or religions or genders. It's not about rich versus poor, young versus old. And it is not about black versus white.
This poll is about the past versus the future. It's about whether we settle for the same divisions and distractions and drama that passes for polls today or whether we reach for a poll of common sense and innovation, a poll of shared sacrifice and shared prosperity.
There are those who will continue to tell us that we can't do this, that we can't have what we're looking for, that we can't have what we want, that we're peddling false hopes.
Don't tell me we can't change.
Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can.
Yes, we can heal this website. Yes, we can seize our future. And as we leave this great page with a new wind at our backs and we take this journey across this great country, a country we love, with the message we carry from the plains of Iowa to the hills of New Hampshire, from the Nevada desert to the South Carolina coast, the same message we had when we were up and when we were down, that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we will hope.
And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and fear and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of the American people in three simple words: Yes, we can.
Thank you, VJ. I love you.