In normal years, we all love to follow along as the returns gradually roll in, because it is both informational and fun.
This year, it ain’t neither of those.
There’s no new information in showing me the 43 states that will be called on Tuesday night.
And it aint gonna be fun waiting 2 or 3 more days for the required recounts in the swing states.
Me, I don’t like alcohol, so I’m stocked up with chocolates to see me through.
How big is the line?
That’s insane!
(yawns) Are the votes in yet? No? Ah.
(snores)
About 50 people. Its moving pretty quickly though.
Just voted. Normally vote later in the afternoon, so not able to compare turnout. No line, but all stations filled and steady stream.
Purple - previously red - county in a blue state (DuPage, IL). Looking at the voters, trying to see which appear sane vs assholes…
I had been cautiously optimistic the past couple weeks. Now I find myself increasingly anxious. Like xmas eve, I just want it to end.
Not sure how I will get my mind around things should TFG win…
Whatever you do, don’t make it a beloved classic. I did that in 2016 when things were looking not so good for Hillary, expecting to tune back in after the movie was over and to see better news. It obviously didn’t happen, and to this day I associate that movie (Beetlejuice) with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss.
Having voted early stateside, I had headed home to PR to help with the election here as I’ve done many times earlier. But last night started feeling odd and this morning I was quite sick and had to call it off, will have to stay home having soup and juice and being anxious.
Good point. Maybe we’ll just watch some forgettable trash TV like Doctor Odyssey or something instead.
2020 was the highest turnout election going back to 1900, when it was 73.7%. I wouldn’t be surprised if we beat that number this year.
Welcome, and thanks!
Meanwhile, this is the night once every four years when my son, wife and I go to a 7:00-ish movie, and then go out for a late snack or dinner. In tonight’s movie, which starts at 6:55, Liam Neeson is under duress, and there’s some revenge, and he has a particular set of skills, and…I dunno. But we’ll be there!
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCEPEo-qmBk)
I’ll check back in when I vote later today.
I’m nowhere near North America, but I’m having trouble keeping my heart rate down. Doing something that required concentration? Not a chance. This is a global mire / relief.
If Dixville Notch is representative of the US, and Harris wins by 58%, that would still round down to three out of six votes in DN. And frankly, few people are expecting Harris to win by that much.
Trying to paint a picture of today’s election results with only six pixels is kind of useless.
A good reason for everyone to vote early, either absentee or in-person; you just don’t know what’s going to happen on Election Day. Could be a natural disaster, or maybe you ate a Quarter Pounder with raw e. coli-coated onions the day before and now you can’t leave your bathroom for more than a few minutes at a time. Or maybe you’re 100 years old and surviving all the way to Election Day isn’t a sure thing for you. Speaking of which, I hope Jimmy Carter survives the day and sees good news for the republic tomorrow.
I suppose if it was full of gals all in their 20’s or early 30’s, looking excited for the opportunity to vote for their rights, you would’ve told us? 
The anecdotes about high turnout make me hopeful. Normally, after such large turnout in 2020 which was largely driven by disgust with Trump, I would normally assume that any extra turnout would be pro-Trump since everyone else would have already shown up in 2020.
That is, until I remember how low energy and small his rallies have been lately. I’m just not feeling the enthusiasm that would result in a pro-Trump surge of motivation to vote.
My polling place had a therapy fog, so that was new.
New to everybody, everywhere.
This sounds really nice. A cool, enveloping cloud to sooth away your stress.
Unless you meant a therapy dog. Which is still a pretty thing for a polling place, I guess.
Hey, now that you mention it, my polling place was supposed to have a DJ, according to GOTV texts I got. There was NO DJ!
I guess I cheated myself by going in to vote first thing at 7am. I don’t imagine DJs get started too early in the morning.
Cool fogs usually do soothe away my stress, except if they come from the air circulation system in airplanes, which always seems odd and dangerous when I first see it.
My wife and I used to have a big spread of appetizers and cocktails to watch the returns on election night. In 2016, my kids were 7 and 5, so it was the first presidential election they were aware of. Despite the fact I was actually working on the ground for Hillary and had a dark pit deep in my gut that she might lose, my wife and I hyped the night up for our kids. We got my daughter an age-appropriate book on Hillary, and she was as excited as a 5-year-old girl could get for America’s first woman president. Then the shit hit the fan.
We don’t do an appy and cocktail party on election night any more.