one of the first executive directors waw greigea hillman who in 1983 started something called the black women's roundtable, with, i think, if i'm not correct, black women's agenda and others, dorothy hooith and others who knew coming together as a coalition of black women is a key. when you talk about the black vote, you're talking about black women primarily, and about the way we vote and who we vote for and how we vote, what we're focused on in 2012 is really to maximize that vote in unprecedented ways to deal with an agenda that says that this time, we're going to ask for some things with our vote. we have been really focusing on the vote, really, really excited to work with the "her vote" coalition and building the kind of coalition that crosses all kinds of areas when it comes to whether you're talking about race or gender or age or income or whatever, if we ever fully came together, really ever fully came together, that's what's going on as we speak, that would not happen. i think coalitions like "her vote" groups in this room, and those who are still working around the room, we k