# Non-Americans - What are you doing tonight? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 2, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580 "2004-11-02T18:12:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Amazingrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Amazingrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazingrace)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580/21 "2004-11-02T21:43:11Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Lobsang > Where can it be watched on the net? > > What time/date is the announcement made? I’m sure that all of the U.S. news agencies websites will have real time updates to the electoral college results. In answer to question 2, I’m sure many of us U.S. dopers are hoping for sometime tonight, and in a decisive manner. The final poll closes at 1AM EST, but that’s in Alaska, which isn’t a contentious state. By 10PM or so, the polls in most of the battleground states should be closed and/or have results coming in. [Here’s a list of poll closing times](http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G04/closing.phtml?format=mc) ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580/22 "2004-11-02T21:48:33Z")
Well, it’s not “tonight” here. It’s Wednesday morning and we’re all at work. I’m not sure whether voting has even finished yet in the USA. Presumably we’ll hear the results as they filter through, assuming, that is, that there is a result and it doesn’t all end up in the lawyers’ hands. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580/23 "2004-11-02T21:49:16Z")
I’m going over to a fickenfreund’s to watch CNN and drink beer. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580/24 "2004-11-02T21:50:20Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > I will be participating in a workshop with as many fabulous transgendered, genderqueer, and trans-positive people as can be crammed into a boardroom. I regard this as the only sane thing to be doing under the circumstance. Honestly, Matt. That may be the sanest thing I’ve ever heard anyone say. I hope you enjoy it. ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580/25 "2004-11-02T21:55:53Z")
Me and the journalism school crowd are heading out to our university pub to take in the action. There are rumours of an election night drinking game afoot. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580/26 "2004-11-02T22:04:10Z")
I’ll be watching…flipping between CNN and all the other usual suspects. Plus I finally get to find out how the voters of Michigan feel about Proposal 1 after being bombarbed with ads for it. ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580/27 "2004-11-02T22:44:18Z")
As **owlstretchingtime** has observed, the timing makes it hard to watch in the U.K. I’ll be turning in shortly and will (unfortunately) be rising just before 5:30 a.m. London time, or 12:30 a.m. on the East Coast, so I’ll definitely be flipping the TV on as soon as I get up to catch News 24 on BBC1. I’m a journalist, so once I’m at work I’ll have more news sources than I know what to do with. ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580/28 "2004-11-02T22:59:58Z")
I’ll be watching the Daily Show’s coverage, and maybe check CNN’s website once or twice for results. Oh, and eating some leftover halloween candy. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580/29 "2004-11-03T00:12:31Z")
I went to a comedy club. VERY funny. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580/30 "2004-11-03T00:18:09Z")
Late morning here in Sydney but I’m checking out the 'net from time to time, trying to follow the trend, if there is one. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580/31 "2004-11-03T02:19:10Z")
I’m going to watch Jon Stewart and eat a pomegranete and that’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580/32 "2004-11-03T14:52:45Z")
Sounds like y’all had fun. Comedy … Hallowe’en candy … booze … workshops … (I hope it was rewarding and inspiring for all. I haven’t been to a good workshop in a while.) Way better than lining up in the rain to vote in Ohio. I made some delicious cauliflower, and headed to my mate’s for wine and CNN and Jon Stewart and Peter Mansbridge. I knew all along that I’d go to bed without knowing who won Ohio, so I don’t know why I made the effort. But it felt good, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580/33 "2004-11-03T15:00:53Z")
I intended watching it on the TV until late (also a political junkie) but ended up going to the pub instead and getting bladdered. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580/34 "2004-11-03T15:24:38Z")
I _was_ planning to watch the whole thing live. I know the American elections are far more important as a whole, but - forgive me - November 2th 2004 will, for me, be the date when another attack on free speech was made, which resulted in the slaughter of [Theo van Gogh.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3974179.stm) I know President Bush probably won, but frankly, I’m far more worried what will happen in my own, not so important, country. _:: shocked, frightened and deeply hurt::_ ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580/35 "2004-11-03T15:25:42Z")
It was the usual night chez owl; Tantrums, strops, crying, refusals to eat greens, trying to stay up past bed time, but eventually the kids got me to behave. I went to bed at 2am feeling that the moomin had shaded it - so in a bit of a mardy mood, but I awoke and Frabjous Day! So I gyred and gymbled and went into work where I have been as happy as a bear with piles as i stayed up past my bedtime - and this is what happens when i do that. Still good result and all that. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580/36 "2004-11-03T15:33:24Z")
p/s: Since the people of both sides seem to be a tad fanatical, [Kerry vs Bush, I mean] let me offer sincere hopes that there won’t be a torn America. I’m hoping the same for the Netherlands. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-americans-what-are-you-doing-tonight/272580.md?page=1)