We are now 24 hours removed from the start of the loud countdown to the west coast poll closings at the bar last night. I will take down the sticker on my site some time before the weekend and go back to my normal routine of keeping politics out of polite conversation. While I have been disappointed by a few things I have read from friends of various political stripes, I also understand how our passions run very deep when something we believe in succeeds or fails. Our electoral process is ingenious in that it places two holidays between the election of new leadership and when those men and women take office; It gives each of us ample time to come back down to earth or pull ourselves back up after an often contentious election cycle. We are truly blessed to live in a country that selects new leadership with ballots instead of bloodshed.