# So...what are you doing election night? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236 "2004-10-26T15:14:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/41 "2004-10-27T02:42:01Z")
I’d really like to be here at home so I could keep one eye on “The Pit”. See who was gonna’ do themselves in and so forth. It looks like I’ll be on the road working and incomputercado. In that case I’ll channel-surf on the motel room TV, unless there’s a likely bar nearby that has some pool tables or a band or something. If there’s a good bar available I’ll do the club thing and check out the news on TV the next morning. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/42 "2004-10-27T02:50:50Z")
I’ll be hoping that Nothing Goes Wrong, and peeking in on things by BBC or CBC. I may not live in the States, but the fate of where I _do_ live is tied up with that of the States, and there are a number of possible outcomes that would be Not Good by my standards. Chief among these is any result with a lot of uncertainty, and the resulting flood of lawsuits and unrest. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/43 "2004-10-27T03:30:47Z")
Class 11-2, 6-9, but I don’t know how much of that will be spent in class and how much will not. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/44 "2004-10-27T03:52:38Z")
Up until the polls close I’ll be either at the local party headquarters making phone calls, or out canvassing or driving people to the polls. After they close, I’ll probably be glued to a TV somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/45 "2004-10-27T04:33:24Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Since I wasn’t invited to **smartini** ’s house ( ☹ ), I plan to gather my family around the tube for what I hope to make an election night tradition: nachos and _Danger!!Deathray_. > > Oh, who am I kidding, I’ll be _here_, listening to the returns and commiserating. Official invite extended…you know I think my mother would love it if a bunch of Dopers showed up to do the election thing with her! She would be so there! 😃 on preview: :dubious: _did that come out right?_ ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/46 "2004-10-27T04:33:34Z")
I’m not American, but if possible I’d be glued to the net coverage, hitting F5 frequently. Unfortunately, when the results are coming out I’ll be on a jet 40,000 feet above Asia. Anyone know if Lufthansa gets some kind of satellite news, that kinda thing? ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/47 "2004-10-27T05:01:53Z")
I remember the Al Gore Vs George Bush election being a very fun night in my house because we treated the elction like it was the “Super Bowl”. This time my mom has already invited people and we are having another election night party. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/48 "2004-10-27T05:17:34Z")
I already voted by absentee ballot. I’ll be going to work and then hitting up my (future)in-laws house for the night to either celebrate or weep together. I’m also decidedly avoiding any and all contact with my own (ultra conservative) family until I’m done gloating or less hysterically angry, depending on the outcome of the election, of course. ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/49 "2004-10-27T15:18:16Z")
Drink and despair. Doesn’t matter who wins – the guy I’m voting for or the other guy. The choices this time out are particularly grim. ---
**Author:** ![moonstarssun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/50 "2004-10-27T21:23:26Z")
Mr m and I will be at a friend’s house, celebrating (we hope). They have a dance floor, so I assume there will be some diversion while we wait for the states to change color. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/51 "2004-10-27T23:04:23Z")
I am also an election judge, so I’ll have a 15 hour day of being a Texas Democrat. I was just griping about this in another thread, but the Republican election judge in my precinct has already invited me to attend her church with her on Sunday. :rolleyes: I’m planning to be civil and bring pumpkin bread for all my fellow poll workers. There’s a possibility of it being pumpkin bread that was part of a batch offered to Our Dark Lord Satan, but I might be too lazy to bother with that part. 😉 I’m such a nerd that I plan to make my husband tape the \*Daily Show \* coverage all night so I can watch it later. Then perhaps, years from now, we can show it to our kids and say, “See, kids, this was the night we decided to move to Canada!” ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/52 "2004-10-28T05:32:41Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Even so, what are the chances of it really mattering? (Yes, I am a little worried that they won’t get my absentee ballot counted, due to sheer numbers.) The race will be really tight if five electoral votes swing it either way. This one’s looking as tight as it was in 2000. Five electoral votes could indeed put it over the top. This is why New Mexicans have seen so very much of both candidates, their wives, their running mates, and their running mates’ wives in the past few weeks. I’ve gotten so blase about the whole thing that I turned down a ticket to see Kerry (again) last night. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/53 "2004-10-28T05:58:21Z")
I’ll spend the evening doing homework, reading, or working on my novel. Around midnight I’ll check [cnn.com](http://cnn.com) . After that, I may check the Onion. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/54 "2004-10-28T18:22:40Z")
> [@jlzania](#): > > Serious praying followed by serious drinking. That sounds about right for me, too. We’ll leave work at 5, go vote for mayor and town council at Town Hall, then go a mile up the road to the firehouse to vote on Federal/state/county races. Then we’ll come home, have dinner, and probably not turn on the TV until 8pm, since the polls don’t close anywhere before then. (Don’t know how much TV coverage I’ll watch even then; I’ll probably follow the returns primarily on the Web.) I’m thinking Wisconsin will determine how late we have to stay up to find out who will be President three months from now (Kerry wins WI ==\> go to bed middlin’; Bush wins WI ==\> stay up late). But either way, I’m planning to stay up until I have an idea who’s going to win the Senate races in OK and CO. If the Presidential race is still up in the air until after the polls close in CO, NM, and NV, then I’ll stay up for that too. But unlike 2000, I’m NOT planning on staying up until it’s decided. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/55 "2004-10-28T18:47:36Z")
I’ll be going out to eat for my husband’s birthday. Maybe he’ll get the president he wants! ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/56 "2004-10-29T00:22:57Z")
I’m going to be sitting in the student union building with my laptop, helping to color in states on the map we’re going to put up, despairing for the world, and trying to get my daily NaNoWriMo quota in. ---
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/57 "2004-10-29T00:28:12Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > …Although I’m not American… Why, all this time, did I not know that? You used to live in the US, thought, right? I just assumed you were an American guy who moved to Dublin for a job (however rarely that happens!) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Blueapple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Blueapple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blueapple)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/58 "2004-10-30T03:05:33Z")
All I know is that election day itself is very borring. The candidates cant really do anything, they go around to polling places. The media just fills up the time with all these wild ideas that probably wont happen. Results start at 8PM eastern. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/59 "2004-10-30T03:11:29Z")
I’ll be sad cause I already know my candidate won’t win. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236/60 "2004-10-30T03:51:01Z")
Laughing! Ah, you 18+ year old kids, looking so grown up in your Constitutional rights to vote! Us politically active adults under the age of 18 own no responsibility over who wins, loses, or gets pied. So, when the world goes to hell, I will be laughing cause I didn’t cause it. WOOOHOO! (Also, I will be working Kids Vote polls around 4:30 or something, and voting there. I am 2 months shy of actually working the real polls. As for **vanilla** , you think your vote won’t affect the outcome? Vote to represent kids who want extra credit across America, then we will talk.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-election-night/271236.md?page=4)