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In Sarasota, Party Already Starting

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By JACKIE BARRON

Published: November 4, 2008

7:05 p.m.: The North Sarasota Get Out the Vote Coalition fired up the speakers and started preparing a celebration hours before the polls closed.

Jetson's Barbershop became command central. The coalition paid folks, not much but something, to blanket the community with door-to-door voting reminders and sign wavers.

Jetson Grimes called it the coalition's own "economic stimulus" for a community feeling the effects of the downtown in the economy.

As a taxi and a charter bus shuttled between five locations taking folks to and from the polls, music set the mood and a tent and tables promised a party.

Grimes says win, lose or draw the community's involvement and excitement in a Presidential election featuring the country's first African-American is historic.

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