Salon.com Life | Waking up with the election blues

If there is such a thing as collective depression, then the circumstances of the election are just right to encourage it. At least the scandal in Florida four years ago gave people something to focus on; there was a battle to be raged. This time, despite some lingering uncertainty over the final result in Ohio, there isn’t the consolation of injustice, of having someone to blame. Depression is not a very focused thing and Wednesday’s mood was universal only in that it allowed people to group their individual reasons for cheerlessness around the huge disappointment of the election result.

Some of these reasons are seasonal: The clocks have been turned back, the leaves are coming down, the bloody Christmas stock has appeared in the shops…

Exactly. Tuesday’s results are only made worse by the fact that it’s almost dark when I leave work now.