Same.
Probably won’t be particularly productive on November 6th.
There’s a musical group going on a US tour which I’d kind of like to see, and they’ll be in my city on Election Day. I’m thinking about going, but I wonder if I’ll be too nervous to enjoy the show.
In 2016, as soon as some of the returns in key states started looking troubling, I turned it off and went and did something else for the rest of the evening. Time enough to see the news in the morning, good or (as it turned out) bad. Or as Matthew said, Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
In 2020, I didn’t watch election day coverage at all. It wasn’t easy, but that’s what TCM and other movie channels are made for (or other activities too).
I plan to follow the same pattern this year. I participated in the IMHO thread about being “done with the agita” of constant political news. That still holds for me. When news channels start reporting on policy issues, I’ll watch more of it. I think I’m safe from that.
Me too. 
I’ll have a town planning board meeting that night (we regularly meet on first Tuesdays.) The meetings are theoretically over by or before 9 PM, but lately they’ve often been running over (last time, partly due to a discussion about meeting times!). If this one runs over, I’m going to get antsy.
As soon as I’m in the car heading home, I’m going to put the radio on. (My phone is close to useless for such purposes.) As soon as I’m home, I’m heading for the computer: news alternating with the Dope. Whether I’m staying up late or, as in 2016, saying ‘I can’t stand this, I’m going to bed while there’s still some faint hope’ I do not know.
I’m hoping for a repeat of 2008, when I expected to be up all night but it was called for Obama by 11 PM. However, in 2008 I think most of the voting was still in person on election day, and even if results are similar (which would be lovely but probably won’t happen) it may take more time these days to get them sorted out.
Gathering chickens, goats, and whatever else I need to perform whatever rituals I need to perform to ensure a Trump defeat.
Though by my understanding, it’s more final for Harris than for Trump, though I’m not sure about extent.
As for myself, I’m taking Tuesday and Wednesday off, since I figure I’ll be distracted anyway. Afterward is another topic entirely.
I plan to vote early. I’m not sure if the Tuesday evening craft group will meet; they do so at the library, which is also a polling place.
Whatever happens, I hope it’s called early.
I haven’t heard from the county auditor, but I may spend the days leading up to this counting absentee ballots. I did that in a regional election in 2022 and it was a great experience.
In 2016, I stayed up till PA was called and then went to bed–around 3. I don’t think I can stay up past midnight, but I will pretend DST hadn’t ended 2 days ago and maybe stay up till 1. I will be reading a fantasy novel and watching the Times on my computer.
I’ll be watching my state returns (recent polling shows the pro-choice constitutional amendment AND anti-choice Republicans both in the lead). Those races will pretty much be settled by the late news. After that, it’s just a question of what time I decide to go to sleep.
I, too, will be watching Kornacki. Also herding threads here, I suspect.
I plan to vote as early as possible, which is pretty damned early here. Likely mid-October.
I’ll be watching the returns. Maybe not constantly, as I do have a few things to do on Tuesdays that I have to attend to, but I’ll be watching as much as I can.
I’ll probably be watching TV, hoping for a blue wave across the country.
And in 2016, I watched a live election night special Stephen Colbert hosted in the Ed Sullivan Theater but on Showtime rather than CBS where his show normally airs. He, I and everyone else expected Hillary Clinton to win so the evening started off light but as the possibility and then certainty of a Trump victory became apparent, it turned into a funeral. It was really something to watch. I don’t think it’s available to watch anywhere.
Also a Kornacki watcher. I will be glued to the tube, hoping my state (Pennsylvania) doesn’t let the country down. I’ll maintain a naive hope that they’ll call it that evening, up until it’s clear they won’t.
Also an Election Day tradition: talking my wife off the ledge every time a state is confirmed red if said state was never in doubt for the GOP (“Honey, Wyoming was always expected to go Trump. Don’t worry yet”).
Like many, I am a scalded dog, or a sufferer of PTSD from 2016. I plan to enter a dither when the returns start coming in, and to remain in that dither until Trump concedes the election.
Which may be a while.
In fact, I think I’m still in that same post-2020 election dither, waiting for trump to concede defeat.
Not even on his deathbed will he concede that he lost.
Like Charles Foster Kane’s final “Rosebud”, his dying words will be “Stop the steal … Stop the steal … Stop the steal …”
Cut to black.
I will try to do anything except watch election coverage.
I never heard of this Kornacki dude. Why are people watching him?
Drinking - either in celebration or in desperation - either way, I’ll be drinking.
He’s the best election caller I’ve ever seen. The guy lives and breathes elections coverage. He’s on MSNBC, and once you’ve watched him, you’ll have a hard time going anywhere else. IMHO, of course. 