A step in the right direction... but there are many more steps to go

Well, it was quite a night. I'm trying to parse it all, and there's a whole lot to parse. The big news, duh, is that President Obama won, and yes, I'm happy about that. Despite a lot of smoke and mirrors from pundits and campaign managers during this unending election cycle, the President has done a lot of good for this country, and has been a net positive in many ways. I think a lot more can improve in the next four years, and I'll be curious to see just how he rolls up his sleeves and gets to it. Having said that, I'm not all rainbows and unicorns with him, which I'll get to in a sec. I'm thrilledTodd Akin and Richard Mourdock lost. I have to think that their, ah, extremely poorly thought-out comments about rape had something to do with that. I saw a lot of tweets ...