Stonewallers from across the country showed overwhelming support and pulled out all the stops since National Stonewall Democrats unveiled our Equaliteam in August .  Eleven grassroots organizers were flown into Washington, D.C. where they attended an intensive training on the power of grassroots organizing and the importance of electing pro-equality Democrats to Congress.

In the days leading up to November 2nd the National Stonewall Democrats and our Equaliteam were able to:

• Call  voters with online phonebanks to help turn out voters for our ElectEquality candidates on November 2nd
• Held a Letter-to-the-Editor and Op-Ed writing campaign that built up a media storm for our ElectEquality candidates on the ground in their local newspapers and on well read political LGBT blogs
• Worked alongside local affiliates to mobilize volunteers to canvass for our ElectEquality candidates
• Organized a massive grassroots Get out the Vote (GOTV) effort for November 2nd that brought out pro-equality voters to the polls.

While the election results proved difficult for Democrats across the country, our ElectEquality program helped offset massive dissatisfaction from LGBT voters in a majority of our ElectEquality races.  Many of the candidates came closer to beating the incumbent than any of the pundits thought possible.

In Nevada, ElectEquality made a crucial placement with a bilingual organizer for Rep. Dina Titus.  Gen Flores, the Equaliteam organizer was able to help offset voter dissatisfaction in Dina’s district and turn out the Latino vote.  While all of us were hoping for a different outcome, Dina lost by only 1,922 votes.

In California, ElectEquality candidate Palm Springs Mayor, Steve Pougnet came closer than any member of the DNC thought that he would in unseating incumbent Mary Bono-Mack. Steve Pougnet’s campaign and Equaliteam organizer Daniel Ramos were able to organize district CA-45 effectively enough to have him pull within 10 percentage points of Bono-Mack, the closest any Democrat has come to unseating this once thought unstoppable incumbent who has been representing Palm Springs since 2003.

All across the country, the Equaliteam and the ElectEquality program not only helped boost democratic support from the LGBT community and its supporters, but also placed highly skilled organizers working on behalf of the LGBT community front and center on campaigns.  All eleven ElectEquality candidates know first hand how important this organizing and outreach was to the effectiveness of their campaigns and have already asked for future support from the program in the next election.