NaBloPoMo: Life goes on

What's so funny about elections is the doomsday rhetoric that they engender. This is true of every election, but perhaps especially this one. "If McCain wins," some people say, "I'm moving to Canada." Or, "If Obama wins," others fume, "the terrorists win." Sure, I understand that this is another manifestation of how deeply divided this country is. But isn't it sort of funny? Because in a real way, life won't fundamentally change for us regardless of who's in the White House. Life goes on, day after day. We'll do the same things we've always done: read the same newspapers, go to the same coffee shops, run the same errands. Sunriiiise, sunseeet. It really begs the question: does it matter who's in the White House?