Stephen Yeargin

Greetings from the Flying Saucer in downtown Nashville! We are here tonight to watch the United States elections play out on the world’s stage. You would think it was the Super Bowl for as many people that have crammed into this room to stare at a television. The first returns have started to flow in, and the electoral map is doing exactly what is expected: major gains for the Democratic party in house and Senate races in traditionally Republican strongholds. Tennessee is one of the few holdouts, remaining virtually unchanged in the makeup of its electorate from four years ago.

But tonight’s main news item is still out there: Who will be the next President of the United States? The night is shaping up to be a relatively short one, with only a few more unknowns to be settled before most major television networks will move forward with their big projection. History is being made tonight, but more importantly is how our future as a country is being shaped. We are about move beyond the last eight years of war, fear and the long but silent decline of our economic health that has only recently surfaced into our nightly news cycles. The next four years will look a lot different than the last eight. That is really the story of tonight.

Our country is finally getting the start it needs to this young century. A progressive agenda coupled with a new environment of bipartisanship can solve many of today’s problems and create the socioeconomic opportunities that have evaded so many for far too long. Change is coming to Washington, and I have every reason to have a bit of faith in our newly-elected officials.

God Bless America.