These Are Days...

To quote 10,000 Maniacs, that you'll remember. Regardless of who you voted for, you have to feel good about one thing: record turnouts. I haven't seen numbers yet, but I can almost guarantee that they are better than election turnouts for many a long year.

I am not willing to say that we are seeing the end of the political apathy that has plagued us for a long time. Even with all of the excitement that surrounds this "historic" election, I still count myself as belonging mostly to the party of the perpetually cynical. I am, after all, the person who is leaving corporate America because I can see the solutions to the problems of a 156-year-old-70,000-member company and I KNOW that I won't be allowed to fix them because of the way things work there. The thought of trying to do something similar to our 232-year-old-300-million-member country WHILE working within our federal bureaucracy is enough to make me want to go to bed for a week.

But there is one difference between my job and our newly elected president's . People voted in record numbers. And that will make his job both easier and harder. I will be quite interested to see how this new job works out for him.