Zero people are going to leave America because Obama won for the following reasons.

The number one dumbass quote of the entire election: 

"I AM GOING TO MOVE TO (insert country here not named America) IF (Barack Obama/Mitt Romney) IS ELECTED"

Number of people who said they will "leave America" if Barack Obama is re-elected: Way too many

Number of people who will actually leave America because Barack Obama was re-elected: Zero

This was probably the stupidest thing I've heard. It's a lot worse than probably all of these things put together. But let's be honest. I'm not a huge Obama fan. Far from it. I believe Obama is the lesser of two evils. He's not a perfect person. Wars will continue and the economy will take a long time to fix, and Obama isn't the guy for the job, but the least shitty person for the whole job. Mitt Romney, on the other hand, had a fighting chance, but lost by a razor-thin margin (50% to 48%). It's the 2004 election again, except John Kerry has an R next to his name.

Now here's basically several reasons you won't leave America because Obama was elected:

1. You're not moving because of Obamacare

Obamacare was probably the #1 focus of the entire election, with all those idiots who made rape jokes on television probably claiming a close second. Guess what? If you're so concerned about Obamacare, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand (four destinations for some of those "I am moving" people) all have Super Saiyan 4 Obamacare. Think about it for a second.

2. You're too sheltered

This mostly applies to people my age or younger (mostly people too stupid to cast a vote, but this is a free country, after all). I grew up in white suburbia, but traveled enough to find out what the rest of the world was like, and to be honest, you probably don't want to leave America unless you've actually been to your preferred destination and lived among the people there.

You'd have to deal with many aspects of the real world if you leave America, such as culture shock, language barriers (if your preferred destination is where English is not the first language), and the metric system.

3. You're actually more free in America in a religious sense

Having lived in another country for two years of my life (the Philippines), I can actually say this with utmost confidence. I'm Filipino by blood (and a dual citizen of both the US and the Philippines), but I have in no way ever felt connected to the Filipino culture aside from being fluent in the language and eating the food. There's a lot of cultural values I strongly disagree with, and I'm sure the same thing is true with anyone else.

For example, people think that they are being persecuted by Obama and friends for being Christian; plenty of Filipinos think that the Christian religion is the shit, going as far as even crucifying themselves in Holy Week festivals (this is not a joke, Google it). They hear Mass in shopping malls. I go to the mall to eat, shop, watch movies and play arcade games, not to hear the word of God being expounded into my ear (that's why you have churches). I don't hate God or Christianity or any religion in particular, but the way people choose to hawk around their beliefs as if they're some annoying salesman doesn't quite appeal to me, and I've had a history of religious nutjobs trying to make me one of them. I could go more into depth, but that's for another time.

The one country that comes closest to America is probably Singapore, and I just returned from a trip there. Despite everyone being packed into apartments, that's the only other place in the world I would ever consider living in because it's multicultural and they enforce the law and practice their religions without being overbearing douchebags.

4. You can't afford it

The average plane ticket is probably $1,000 and still climbing because airlines care more about profit than making sure you have enough legroom to move around comfortably (which could easily be solved if seats were a mere 3" more apart) and charging you an arm and a leg for extra baggage. Could you really afford to relocate, get a job, and live in another country off of their wages? GDP per capita and GDP per purchasing power parity (Google those terms because I'm not going to bother explaining it here) are still pretty shitty compared to America in the majority of the world, and if you happen to want to leave America for a country with a higher GDP, you'll get hit with insane amounts of taxes (except if this country is an oil-rich state like Qatar, which has no personal income tax). Either way, you lose.

The city with the lowest cost of living in the world? Tehran, Iran. That probably made you think, "Oh, fuck." Still want to leave? Thought so.

5. You won't do it. Period.

A guide on how to actually leave America.

If you've gotten to the renouncing US citizenship part, you're probably better than 99.99% of everybody that said they would leave.

That's all I've gotta say about that. This will be my last political post for a while ("a while" is delineated as from now until someone fucks up again).