This thread is for all things on Election Day Tuesday 11/5/24
Polling
Results
Going ons at your poll
Political discussions around you
And yes, this is a safe place to cry if you need to.
Something of the sort was what I predicted he’d do after 2020.
Sometimes I’m wrong.
– I have a meeting tomorrow night. But as of this late afternoon I’ve got a sudden sore throat.
If I’m too sick to go to the meeting, and/or if the covid test I haven’t taken yet turns up positive, the silver lining (if it is a silver lining) is that I’ll be able to have horrible election jitters here all evening, instead of having to be at a meeting trying to concentrate on something else.
If I do go to the meeting, which is unlikely even if the first test is negative (you’re supposed to take two, and there won’t be time for the second before I’d have to leave) unless I feel entirely fine tomorrow morning, I probably won’t be home till around 9:30 (EST) and it might be later. Polls will have closed a number of places by then.
Harris will match or exceed Biden’s EV count in 2020
Voters who were upset by the comments at Trump’s MSG rally will push her over the top in PA, MI, and (possibly) FL
The media will call the race sometime between 8 PM and midnight, Pacific time
All attempts by Trump and his team to delay, alter, or nullify this result will be unsuccessful
Trump will suffer a physical or mental breakdown by the end of November and be ruled incompetent to stand trial
There will be no repeat of 1/6 and Harris will be sworn in without incident
JD Vance will attempt to position himself as the new face of maga, but Trump’s cult of personality will not transfer over to him and by 2028 maga will no longer be a significant force in the Republican party
So how do you plan to handle the actual returns coming in, as in - will you be watching? Snacking? Drinking?
Since I’m in Hawai’i, returns from East Coast states will start coming in at a reasonable hour. The joke, but probably serious, comment I’ve been making is, “well, originally I thought I would probably drink steadily (to celebrate or dull the pain as needed) to help me through the election news. But I don’t day drink, and I don’t want to stay tipsy nonstop for days, so I guess that won’t work.”
There’s a meme going around on my social media declaring that we are now going by airport lounge rules……price is no object, calories don’t count, and no one’s going to judge you for drinking beer at 10AM.