The very first priority of an Obama presidency should be to reform our system of voting, by standardizing it where possible.  There have been too many examples already in this election of possible disenfranchisement of voters, dirty tricks, and malfunctioning machines to allow our flawed system of voting to continue.  Keeping people away from the voting booth helps Republicans; allowing more people to vote helps Democrats.  If we want to preserve a Democratic majority for years to come, the best thing we could do is to fix our system of voting.

I don't actually believe we live in a center-right nation, as many pundits have been saying the last couple of days.  I believe we have voted as a center-right country in the last couple of elections--but if the electorate voted fully, I think we'd find that we live in a center-left nation.

Voting should be standardized, using a paper optical scan ballot, with a "receipt" that is viewable online, so an individual can check that their vote was registered correctly after the fact.  Democracy demands that this reform happen right away.