Take a lesson from Wall Street… all-in-all, they want to know WHO definitively won so that they can take action. Either side winning is actionable knowledge for one’s own benefit… the two possible results just call for different actions.

I disagree that “we have just as much opportunity” to change the culture, since I disagree that any significant portion of the electorate voted for Obama because of the issues on which he’s right (or better). The election results demonstrate that the American sense of life is no longer shared by a majority of Americans. While Romney’s policies would probably not have differed significantly from Obama’s, the philosophical symbolism of the Obama candidacy was almost purely collectivist (he offers only collectivist justifications even for his good policies), while Romney’s retained a few shreds of individualism (and its corollary, egoism).

And, with so little discussion of actual issues, the campaign was indeed fought on largely philosophical grounds, with Obama being an unabashed collectivist, and Romney being a mushy moderate. Thus, the question for the electorate was whether there was enough righteous indignation against the philosophy of “you didn’t build that”, and there wasn’t. So, we have appreciably more ground to make up in the event.