KPCC Election 2008

Reporter's Notebook--Frank Stoltze at the Obama CA Victory Party

Century Plaza Hotel a madhouse as thousands gather for Obama victory party. Biggest political party in Los Angeles since the recall election that swept Arnold Schwarzenegger into office in 2003. Lots of young people, African Americans, Democratic party apparatchik and electeds. Talked to one financial planner who was raised in Eritrea. He’s proud America elected its first black president. So is his father back home. They talked by phone earlier and his father expressed hopes an Obama administration would do more to help African countries. The campaigning lasted until the last minute, with a phone bank set up in the lobby outside the main ballroom here, where callers urged people to the polls.

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• November 4, 2008 8:01 PM
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