DONNA BRAZILE

I'VE followed Donna Brazil's contributions to CNN throughout this year, and she's become about my most favourite person on TV (she's a Democratic Party strategist, and ran Al Gore's campaign in 2000). CNN just showed a clip of her talking about what it meant to her to vote this morning; what it meant to realise that what her grandparents told her about being anything in America was actually true. For me that's one of the best things about having been able to watch this election campaign: how it energised people who have felt themselves politically marginalised for so many decades. That really is what real democracy is about, I think.

Donna Brazil