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Yes we can. In the wake of election night, I find myself a mixture of joyous and somber — two feelings that admittedly don’t “go together.” And I feel the first thing I should address is my somber emotion. I am somber because I am sorry. Sorry for how rash I was the day after Bush Jr’s re-election four years ago. I realize now, I like to think mostly because of my age, that insulting a president-elect in the days immediately following an election does not insult the man so much as it insults his supporters, and, more importantly — your fellow citizens. I am sorry for doing my part in that terribly immature practice four years ago, and I just hope that we are better than that today.

The first results are coming in, and so far they are no surprise. The real excitement of the night comes later, when battleground states come down to the wire. But, as I sit here watching votes stream in (including, for the first time, my own), I find myself pondering my life in terms of Presidential terms.