Around midnight, Tom Brokaw declared, ?NBC projects Bush as the winner!? It was going to be a long night and longer four years. I was especially concerned about Bush?s environmental policy and his plan to overhaul the judiciary with conservative judges. The face of the Supreme Court could change in the next four years. The divide between the Bush ?faithful? and the others would be wider. I needed some sleep. By the way, Nebraskans would have to gamble across the river. The gambling initiatives did not pass. The embryonic stem-cell research bill in California, Proposition 71 passed against Bush?s wishes. The gay marriage propositions did not pass in none of the 11 states, not even in Oregon. *** THE NEXT DAY I have election hangover. The world has not changed. I am not even American. Aaron Brown says: ?Now Iraq is Bush?s problem to solve. All the talk about values will come to how he deals with Iraq.? Somebody in TV mentioned the recent Economist article which said, ?This is the election of the incompetent against the incoherent.? Bush was coherent. The pundits think Democrats need to find a ?message.? The best saying that I heard during this ride through Wild America was Stuart Taylor Jr. of the National Journal who during the run up to the Election wrote, ?American Politics is not a thing of beauty- never has been, never will be- until the scientists find a genetic way of purging selfishness, greed and irrationality from human nature.? At least we have hope ? California?s Proposition 71 will provide 3 billion dollars to fund embryonic stem cell research. Who knows may be they can purge us of irrationality after all? ***