ellie and kim and allison and the whole family. some people say dont you feel good in here today? don't you feel the power? they pissed us off, it's on. live mike, live mike. i'm honored to be here representing the national coalition of black civic participation. we're a 35-year-old organization that started in 1976. through three organizations, the naacp, and the joint center for political economic studies. 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 tha