Carmen pacis saeculare
Venit Angelus cantare,
Et deorsum pacem dare
Capronensi populo.

Dabit pacem eternalem,
Sine morbo immortalem,
Sine pugna triumphalem,
Capronensi populo.

En diabola albata
De Caprona expulsata,
Missa pax et virtus data
Capronensi populo.

This song, from Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones, sums up my feelings about the election; my reason is more skeptical. (Jones gives an English "translation", but although written first, it has the cheesy feel of most translations of mediaeval Latin verse.)