# How do you plan to spend election night? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 11, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728 "2020-10-11T17:49:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/81 "2020-10-12T17:16:34Z")
there will be ben and jerrys, which ever way this lands. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/82 "2020-10-12T17:21:40Z")
Two scoops if Trump loses! ---
**Author:** ![Temporary\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Temporary\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Temporary_Name)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/83 "2020-10-12T17:50:08Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > Bad news then: . . . . . Yes, there might be some small irregularities in Pennsylvania elections, but I believe forewarned is forearmed. (If the Northwest of the state is known to you “Don’t give up the ship” and all that.) They do start processing and counting the MORNING of Election Day so much further ahead of states that don’t even start until polls are closed. I presume they will be well staffed and get some work done during lulls in the day and continue counting once the polls close so there might be north of 90% tabulated by the time it gets late here in the west – maybe 98 or 99%? If Biden is ahead and all rural areas are counted but more urban areas are still counting, well I might feel pretty comfortable. Even more so if Florida has been called for Biden. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/84 "2020-10-12T17:56:36Z")
the things that are going on in the pa legislature is the reason i will be voting in person on election day. i am taking no chances. also as i live in a building, the polling place is in the lobby of the building, building residents only; very safe. as some have stated earlier, i would crawl over broken glass, hot coal, whatever, to vote this year. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/85 "2020-10-12T18:03:44Z")
> [@Temporary\_Name](#): > > > [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > > > Bad news then: . . . . . > > Yes, there might be some small irregularities in Pennsylvania elections, but I believe forewarned is forearmed. (If the Northwest of the state is known to you “Don’t give up the ship” and all that.) They do start processing and counting the MORNING of Election Day so much further ahead of states that don’t even start until polls are closed. I presume they will be well staffed and get some work done during lulls in the day and continue counting once the polls close so there might be north of 90% tabulated by the time it gets late here in the west – maybe 98 or 99%? If Biden is ahead and all rural areas are counted but more urban areas are still counting, well I might feel pretty comfortable. Even more so if Florida has been called for Biden. Thanks for the observations. We’ve been talking about GOP ratfuckery in a bunch of different threads and maybe this isn’t the best one for more of it. But one quick note: Dem congresscritters earned about a half million more votes than their Republican counterparts (one uncontested district) in 2018 and blue intensity levels are ratcheted up another click or three this year. If election officials stay on the ball, all that “stop counting” bullshit is gonna be nothing more than hot air. ---
**Author:** ![Tabco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tabco/32/7644_2.png) [@Tabco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabco)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/86 "2020-10-12T18:52:20Z")
I certainly can understand that feeling. Some of my friends are in the same boat. The night after the 2016 election I was on the phone with one of them and he was despondent. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/87 "2020-10-12T20:09:46Z")
Will be switching between Fox and MSNBC. I love watching Steve Kornacki and his energy and percentage charts, and then will see what the fox people will be saying. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/88 "2020-10-12T20:29:59Z")
Those of you who are planning on watching Fox News: can you come back here and post a warning when they send out the call for militias to mobilize? Probably gonna want to take down the Biden signs when that happens… ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/89 "2020-10-12T21:40:41Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Too bad dead tree newspapers aren’t more of a thing, because the headlines after the results are final should read “Trump Loses” as opposed to the more traditional “Biden Wins” I could accept a final, large photo of the con man with the headline “LOSER” ---
**Author:** ![squidfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@squidfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squidfood)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/90 "2020-10-12T21:45:17Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I could accept a final, large photo of the con man with the headline “LOSER” No headline writer worth their salt would resist “FIRED” ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/91 "2020-10-12T21:58:26Z")
we won’t know the results for a while so I won’t be paying too close attention. What concerns me is trump may ‘win’ on election night before all the mail in ballots are counted, then he will try to stop the counting of the mail in ballots. more democrats are voting early than Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/93 "2020-10-14T19:14:53Z")
I’ll be bouncing around on the different channels getting results. The election for our congressman is supposed to be very close, but probably won’t be known for weeks due to absentee ballots. I’m guessing the same with other local races (like city court judges and stuff). So I’m guessing I’ll watch the various channels, but who knows? I might just decide to watch a movie depending on how the night unfolds. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/94 "2020-10-14T22:20:56Z")
Naked and afraid. Like every night ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/95 "2020-10-15T19:51:17Z")
Just like Trump, probably ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/96 "2020-10-15T20:35:52Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Just like Trump, probably- So… that would be weeping into your pillow, or tweeting on the _terlet_? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/97 "2020-10-15T21:11:47Z")
I worry that Trump has one last run in him. One last chance to convince some undecided voters he can sometimes, on some days, for an hour or two at a time, behave like he’s not a shit-slinging monkey at a zoo. And I worry that for some, passing that test might be enough to vote for him again. ---
**Author:** ![Temporary\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Temporary\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Temporary_Name)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/98 "2020-10-15T21:26:58Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@SuntanLotion](#): > > > > Just like Trump, probably- > > So… that would be weeping into your pillow, or tweeting on the _terlet_ ? 🙂 Being romantically rebuffed by Melania? Checking the legality of self pardon? Carving your initials into the Resolute Desk? Packing priceless artifacts into your luggage? ---
**Author:** ![Temporary\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Temporary\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Temporary_Name)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/99 "2020-10-15T21:31:04Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > I worry that Trump has one last run in him. One last chance to convince some undecided voters he can sometimes, on some days, for an hour or two at a time, behave like he’s not **a shit-slinging monkey at a zoo**. What an impolite thing to say about the sitting president! It is obvious to me he is a free range shit-slinging monkey in the wild. A small and pedantic difference but one possibly important to some Trump voters ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/100 "2020-10-16T13:50:18Z")
> [@Temporary\_Name](#): > > Being romantically rebuffed by Melania? Being romantically rebuffed by ~~Melania~~ Ivanka? FTFY ---
**Author:** ![Temporary\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Temporary\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Temporary_Name)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728/101 "2020-10-16T14:07:30Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Being romantically rebuffed by ~~Melania~~ Ivanka? > > FTFY Thank You, much more accurate. “For the last time Dad, NO! . . . . (then under breath) _maybe if you had won the election_” (bordering on taking the joke too far, even for me) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-plan-to-spend-election-night/922728.md?page=6)