As I write this, I still don't know who's won the presidency. But by the time you read this, barring an Electoral College tie, you certainly will know.

Which means that while I'm still in suspense, you're probably reading articles like "What Four More Years of Obama Means" or "What America Will Look Like Under Romney."

So, here's my dilemma: How can I discuss what's on everyone's lips if I don't know the winner?

After all, it'd be foolish to underplay the results. As right-wing commentator Charles Krauthammer wrote in The Washington Post, the stakes this year are enormous:

"An Obama second term means that the movement toward European-style social democracy continues, in part by legislation, in part by executive decree. The American experiment -- the more individualistic, energetic, innovative, risk-taking model of democratic governance -- continues to recede, yielding to the supervised life of the entitlement state."

A Mitt Romney victory, on the other hand, "could guide the country to the restoration of a more austere and modest government with more restrained entitlements and a more equitable and efficient tax code. Those achievements alone would mark a new trajectory -- a return to what Reagan started three decades ago."

While we often hear that any given election is the "most important in our lifetime," Krauthammer believes that this time it might actually be true, because at stake is "the relation between citizen and state, the very nature of the American social contract."

Let's allow, then, that regardless of which camp you're in, the ideological stakes are indeed enormous. But what about the personal stakes? Can we overplay those?

Here's what someone wrote on this subject four years ago, right after Barack Obama won:

"It struck me that no matter who runs the White House  -- even after a historic victory that my grandchildren will talk about -- they still won't be able to help me with the most important things in my life: how I raise and educate my kids, how I deal with my friends and community, how ethically I lead my life, how I give back to the world, how I grow spiritually, how I stand up for Israel and the Jewish people, how I live an eco-friendly life -- in short, how I help my country by taking personal responsibility for my own little world."

That someone was yours truly, in a Journal column titled "Yes, I Can."

The point I was making is that no matter who ends up in the White House, "99 percent of our happiness is in our own hands."

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David Suissa is president of TRIBE Media Corp./Jewish Journal and can be reached at davids@jewishjournal.com