Getting Over The Election

We start today with the big national drama everyone’s talking about - what’s next now that the U.S. has chosen its new leader? At last count, about 55.5 million voters supported John McCain’s bid for the White House, many of them groaning over the headlines this morning. Some are sad, some are miffed, and many hate the idea of an Obama administration. Some let their frustration be heard during McCain’s concession speech last night, with loud booing and jeering at Obama's name.

McCain supporters could spend the next four years blaming Democrats for the nation’s ills, and gloating by the winning team will only widen the nation’s ideological chasm. It's not a good situation for a country fighting an economic catastrophe and two foreign wars. So, how do we make peace, bridge the divide, and start getting down to business?

Drew Weston has some ideas. He’s director of clinical psychology at Emory University and author of The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation. He joins the show with more on what the parties and the voters really have to do to move on.

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