If your candidates won elections last night, do not relapse. If your candidates lost elections last night, do not relapse.

If you are on the winning side, you may feel an elation that seems to take you beyond the daily grind of life. You may feel some vindication and connection to all those others who voted alongside you. You are now on the winning side. Life is better now, you may tell yourself; things are trending in your direction. You might tell yourself that you deserve to revel; there is so much to celebrate. You may want to pop some corks. Or crack open some bottles of the good stuff or the bad stuff. Light up and lighten up.

Might there be some elation in those first drinks........

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