# What Are Your Plans For Election Night?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-plans-for-election-night/467848>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 14, 2008, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-plans-for-election-night/467848 "2008-10-14T10:05:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-plans-for-election-night/467848/41 "2008-10-15T00:57:32Z")

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I will probably pick up some chinese food on my way to my boyfriend’s house and we will sit and watch the votes tally up while we eat seasame chicken. If he has class that night I will call up some friends and we can go watch the votes tally from a bar downtown.

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**Author:** ![phil417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@phil417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phil417)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-plans-for-election-night/467848/42 "2008-10-15T00:58:28Z")

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I work that night, 2:00 pm – 11:00 pm. Fortunately, the polls open at 7:00 am.

Love, Phil

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-plans-for-election-night/467848/43 "2008-10-15T02:53:09Z")

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You people are nuts. I’ll vote in the AM on the way to work & not think about it again until I read the paper the next day. I definitely want to watch exactly zero of the hype-la on TV.

Regardless of whether I’m pleased or pissed about the outcome, it’ll happen on schedule (more or less) without my watching it. And if the eventual results aren’t to my tastes, there’s not a damn thing I can do about it.

We complain about the media trivializing the process, and then we treat it like some sporting event. Bah Humbug I say …

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**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-plans-for-election-night/467848/44 "2008-10-15T03:31:00Z")

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…I say politics is sports. And when the your team wins, it actually matters.  
I’ll be on the election night thread while watching CNN. I expect to see _you_ here. Don’t forget to vote!

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