"A Victory for Meritocracy"

Award-winning Seattle writer Timothy Egan has a great piece in the New York Times in which he ruminates on the people who, it was feared, would not vote for Obama, but did. "He became only the second Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to win more than 51 percent of the popular vote not because he’s black, but because he is smarter, with better ideas, and showed leadership under fire. This was a victory for meritocracy."