As the smoke clears from one of the tightest and most contentious presidential elections in our nation's history, it should be clear that what is needed now is a renewed and sincere effort toward cooperation. Practically all presidential elections in the past century or so have ended with the winner, and loser, going through the motions of talking about cooperation. But after what this nation has seen in the presidential election of 2000 and suffered in the last five weeks in Florida, cooperation has to be more than a word this time.
Government has to learn to get along with itself.
This is what Americans want and this is what is good for the nation. Many commentators have noted how the nation split evenly in so many different ways between the Al Gore and the George W. Bush camps. The electoral college count was practically even, with the edge for Bush. The popular vote went likewise, with the edge for Gore. Most court decisions were split ones.