Back in October, Westgate Resorts CEO David Siegel sent out an e-mail to the 7,000 employees of the privately held company, many of them in the battleground state of Florida, warning them their jobs were at risk if the president was re-elected.

Now that President Barack Obama has been elected to a second term, are Siegel's employees boxing up the contents of their cubicles? Is Siegel pricing out retirement properties? Is all that tough-guy campaign talk being backed up with some cold, swift impunity?

Not so much.

Siegel was still barking a bit on Wednesday, when he responded to Bloomberg writer Susan Berfield's question about the layoff threat with a hedging "I don't know. I'm going to work my hardest to keep the company going and expand the best I can."

In the same breath, however, he admitted to giving everyone in his company an average 5% raise to "help them handle the additional burdens the government will put on them."

Let's go back for a second to the exact words of Siegel's e-mail, which built off of the sentiments from a chain e-mail he sent during the 2008 presidential campaign.

"The economy doesn't currently pose a threat to your job. What does threaten your job however, is another 4 years of the same Presidential administration," he said in the e-mail. "If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, as our current President plans, I will have no choice but to reduce the size of this company."

Siegel told Bloomberg that the e-mail wasn't a threat and that, on election day, he "wished employees luck" and "didn't do anything to encourage or discourage employees, to find out who their preference was." Employees familiar with their boss may be accustomed to Siegel's hyperbole and statements, but they also seem well aware of his inability to follow through.

Siegel's company weathered the recession during President Obama's first term, but it came at a personal, public cost to both him and his wife, Jackie. They stopped working on a 90,000-square foot home modeled on the French palace of Versailles four years ago so they could prop up Westgate. The home, which is the subject of the pointed documentary, "The Queen of Versailles," merited a mention in Siegel's pre-election e-mail when Siegel hinted that he'd start working on it again if Obama lost.

Instead, the sprawling sarcophagus of a home remains only partially finished. It's still on the market for $65 million.

However, Adelson wasn't publicly admonishing pit bosses at the Venetian to vote Romney or turn in their vests. Despite getting a bit testy with his Fox News cohosts on Election Night, Rove never told Megyn Kelly on camera to start clicking through Craigslist for work because he and Roger Ailes were going to can everyone from Sean Hannity to Steve Doocy if Obama won.

Only Siegel completely misread public sentiment toward people of his stature. He missed the portion of the Makovsky Wall Street Reputation Study of financial industry marketing execs in which 81% believe Wall Street pay will continue to batter the industry reputation. He didn't catch the Gallup survey in May that discovered that fewer than one in five Americans trusted big business or the poll of high school students by the University of Arizona in August that found that 75% agreed with the following statement: "The stock market is rigged mostly to benefit greedy Wall Street bankers."

Still, Siegel won't relent.

"I don't want to fulfill my own prophecy," he told Bloomberg.

That's the thing about life in Versailles: As Louis XVI could attest, the worldview from its gilded vantage point makes it really easy to lose one's head.