More of the same? A post-election look at America in the shadow of the Fiscal Cliff

Like most of America I stayed up late on election night, seeing a near-tie for the presidency turn slowly into President Obama’s victory, after which the Republican Party’s Mitt Romney conceded his loss with a gentlemanly grace that illustrated his strengths as well as any public speech he offered in all those months of electioneering. The Republicans did not suffer a “bad beating,” as some of the media said, but just managed to lose, possibly because their candidate was not the fiery orator...