The election is over. Barack Obama is still president, Republicans still hold the House majority, and in spite of more than $2.5 billion of presidential electioneering, things don't look much different than they did on Nov. 6.

In the post-election periods of years past, a truce period of acceptance and determination existed. You might not like the guy in the Oval Office, but the smartest thing both sides could do was just roll up their sleeves and get on with the work ahead.

God knows there's plenty of that. Clean-up is still ongoing in Sandy-stricken New York and New Jersey; unemployment still hovers at more than 7 percent; and various global crises threaten our security and siphon our resources.

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