Okay, so your preferred presidential candidate may or may not have won the election on Tuesday, but you have to admit that it is nice to know that we live in a free democracy where opinions can differ and the ruling party can change hands without bloodshed.

So let’s focus on the bright side today. Did you know that the stock market historically performs better under Democratic presidents? Certainly, Wednesday’s nearly 500-point drubbing on the Dow doesn’t exactly bode well. But the data does.

Media mogul Sumner Redstone is embroiled in his own credit crisis brought on by the market’s savage sell-off.

Redstone’s National Amusements, which is privately held and controlled by the Redstone family, is scrambling to renegotiate a $1.6 billion loan – $800 million of which is due for repayment by mid-December.

While I was sitting at my desk on Wednesday, I heard Chris Rowe marvel, “Warren Buffett is such a stud.” Now, Chris does have a slight man-crush on Warren, but he’s also happily married with baby number two on the way. So I figured that Buffett must have just pulled off a major coup.

Sure enough, I looked at the news and saw that Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) had invested $3 billion in General Electric (GE) preferred stock carrying a 10% dividend. Buffett also secured the option of picking up another $3 billion worth of GE common stock at $22.25 a share over the next five years. GE stock closed at $24.50 on Oct. 1. For average Joe investor, GE’s dividend yield is around 5%.