As the U.S. creeps closer to the beginning of President-elect Barack Obama's first days in office, the optimism toward the Illinois senator remains constant.
For better or for worse, Americans want to be a part of every detail of Obama's historic and successful run for the presidency.
The Editorial Board actually gets kind of giddy thinking about how responsive and enthusiastic people have remained after the election results were announced.
We've been pleasantly surprised by the continuing love being shown to the Obama camp.
People are still so fired up by Obama's election that many of them cannot wait to head up to Washington, D.C., to watch the 44th president's inauguration. So many people, in fact, that congressmen don't know if they'll be able to fulfill the overwhelming number of requests for inauguration tickets.
These tickets don't usually sell out. The House of Representatives alone distributes about 86,000 tickets for the inauguration - that's a lot of people watching a single speech.
We aren't about to fight over tickets to a speech so we can freeze our tails off all the way up in D.C.
If you plan on making the trip, good for you. We hope Obama delivers his greatest performance to date.
We would rather stay down in Florida where we'll still be able to feel our toes.
