Bahaha. Weaving 1980s soft rock into your existential comfort words is its own special kind of torture. Well played.

Once you've voted, stop watching the news until the day after the election.

You'll feel much better.

@6 feel better, or be less educated and more in denial?

Stressed? All you need to do is take some of dat Special K! The advertisements hard-coded into the Stranger's rundown of stories told me so! Nothing like a little powerful anesthetic to wash your cares away...

Many thanks for putting this into perspective, Charles.

*and props for not tossing up the 'internal/external locus of control' jagon.