Oddly enough there is a long tradition here of threads on election night watch parties. 2020 was one we will never forget.
Do you have any plans? I would expect to be sitting here with family. It will be a late night and I have to drive a school bus in the morning. Further, Pennsylvania will be very close and we cannot expect final results for several days. Probably we will all go to bed without a clear winner.
So what about you? Out at a party, hosting an event, just spending a quiet night sealed in your backyard bunker?
I’ll be an election officer: my workday will start at 5am and end at 8-9pm (depending on how long the closing procedures take), so once I get home I will probably go to bed as soon as possible. Assignments haven’t been made yet but I’m likely to be a provisional ballot specialist – as I was for the last two elections I worked – and I’m hoping to be busy enough to not have time to think about the election outcome until the next day.
I have a regular Tuesday night dance. I’ll be there, with a lot of friends, probably anxiously peeking at results as they come in. By the time i get home, it will be late, and I’ll probably go to bed. Dunno what I’ll do Wednesday morning.
When I started doing this six years ago, I was blown away by the incredible stamina and competent attention all those “little old ladies” had been putting forth all those decades, without complaint or demands for gratitude.
I’ll never forget driving across the Central Valley of California on a family vacation in June 2022, hearing on the radio the testimony of that mother-and-daughter team of long-time poll workers in Georgia, whose livelihodds (lives, really) were threatened – ruined! – for no valid reason at all, by the orange shitstain and his demented acolytes. I was in tears.
I had planned to be out of the country, which would have made things easier to ignore, but our travel plans have recently fallen through. So I guess I’ll be freaking the fuck out.
I don’t usually watch US elections. I’ll be watching this one. I feel like this is going to be a really important election for the fate of the USA and the world. The Republicans have learnt a lot about what their supporters will tolerate, and it seems like it is almost anything. I think previously there was a fear in Republican politicians that if they did not pay lip service to democracy, then they would be punished at the polls. This is just not true and they know it now.
If Trump becomes president and implements parts of Project 2025, the USA is going to become a very different place. American fascism won’t look like German fascism or Italian fascism, it will be its own thing, but it will still be awful. And this makes me concerned for Canada’s future. And the world. The climate crisis is increasingly dire. A Trump government will not only not address it, he will make it worse. I really hope that the polls are dead wrong and Americans are seeing through his BS.
No results will be in on election night. I will be anxious beyond belief.
I won’t watch any TV live, but will be watching online to see if, possibly, Pennsylvania comes in.
If somehow Pennsylvania is called, that will be the election I think. If Trump can win it that night, he is likely going to win the whole thing. If Harris can win it that night, same.
I bet it will be 4-5 days like last time, though I hope we have a good sense of it. Last time, it was pretty clear what was happening after 48 hours or so.
I shall print out my predicted map from 270towin and tune into MSNBC starting at 7:00 when the first results stream in. I’ll put checkmarks where my predictions are correct, smiley faces when a red pick turns blue, and frowny faces when blue picks turn traitor. I’ll also have a list of House and Senate seats to watch. By 11:00 I’ll go to bed elated, depressed, or in suspense.
We’ll be in Fiji (as we were for the 2016 election. No repeats!!!). I’m going to try not to be on the Dope all day, but it will be tough. Last time the morning dive briefing went: “This will be a sixty minute dive with a maximum depth of 100’. Although the Americans may want to keep going…”
We’ll likely sit here chewing our nails to the quick until we either go to bed elated, or depressed beyond all measure. A repeat of the 2016 election in other words.
Assignments haven’t been made yet but I’m likely to be a provisional ballot specialist – as I was for the last two elections I worked – and I’m hoping to be busy enough to not have time to think about the election outcome until the next day.