Just before Barack Obama took the stage in Chicago to give his victory speech, Stewart Iverson, chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa, tried his best to cheer the crowd up at the Marriott in downtown Des Moines. He told fellow Republicans to look ahead to the governor's race in 2010 and the next presidential election in 2012.

"The biggest thing is we've got to keep the faith, we've got to keep going," Iverson said. "We've got another election two years from now and four years from now. We've got to have the passion, we've got to have the desire because if you don't have the desire you're not going to be successful. It didn't gel, but you know what, there's always tomorrow, and if we give up on thinking for tomorrow and voting for tomorrow, then we've lost."

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