Here we are.

With any kind of luck at all, we have a clear winner in the U.S. Presidential election.  I’m writing this as the returns are coming in (what? you think I get up at the crack of dawn to do this?)

At just about midnight, all the major networks have called the race for President Obama.  However, the Romney campaign is not conceding, at the moment.

It doesn’t look like they have a path to victory where the math is possible, but they’re holding out.  This seems to be part of a trend.  Facts don’t count.  We don’t believe data.  We don’t believe science.

I wonder today, on this Wondering Wednesday, why anybody wonders why we have a problem with education.

However, it is fair to make sure that the votes have been counted.  I’m okay with that, although I’d like to be able to go to bed knowing it’s settled.

And I wonder if this—once it is settled—means that we might get an actual working government where people realize not everybody can have exactly what they want and compromise is not always a bad thing.

Because there’s one thing I don’t wonder—and that is that we cannot go forward if people don’t get out of the way.

I’m going to bed thinking and hoping that this is a good day for the United States of America.

(UPDATE:  It’s 1 am and Mr. Romney has conceded.  It is over, and it is a good day for the United States of America.  I still wonder if we can move forward, but I have higher hopes than I did yesterday.)