Election Night: Where Will You Be?

[Gotham]

I'll most likely be at home, drinking a Coke and debating online with everyone while simultaneously following the election.

 

[danoyse]

My invitation must have gotten lost as well.

So was mine, apparently.

 

[Holiday]

I forgot about the Daily Show's coverage. I'll be watching that aswell. I would love to have a party but none of the dudes I know even vote. They either don't care or can't legally.

 

[kytrigger]

I'll be at work actually, which is good, since the television in there should be on the election coverage. Not sure what channel we'll get coverage from, but it doesn't really matter to me, I think most will be about the same.

 

[Captain Planet!]

If "The Mac" wins: Getting my citizenship to Canada.

 

[BlackLantern]

anyone know if Brokaw is doing NBCs coverage??

 

[ManofmyWord]

Probably MSNBC with some friends and a pizza.

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

*cries at responses from JP, Marx and Danoyse*



Well...aren't we still having a Hype Party here at the same time?

 

[JP]

Pft.

 

[Exploding Boy]

I'll be at my friends place. We bought lots of beer, like a few said already, for celebration or sorrow

 

[Golgo-13]

I'm gonna be glued to MSNBC.

 

[louiebling$]

Ill be at Work till 845pm(Pacific time)

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I'll be glued to the TV while simultaneously being on the Hype. I'm going to be nervous as hell tommorrow.

If Big Mac and Mooseburger win....I might be deporting to a foreign country.

 

[Leenie]

I'll be at home, watching the coverage on the big screen television with my mom and my aunt. Knowing my mom and my aunt, we'll be watching Fox News throughout most of the night, though I'm going to request changing the channel once in a while (since I like to see coverage from all channels, just to see what they have to say). It's kind of a tradition for us ladies to do this for every general election.

Alcohol will be involved.

I'll most likely have my laptop with me as well, just to see if I can get updates quicker though the internet than I can on television.

 

[tzarinna]

I might go to this. http://adventurers.meetup.com/241/calendar/9045110/
I can't decide if I want to be out late and take public transport. There's no telling what kind of reaction might come out of all of this. Free cover 'til 7 so I have until 5 to decide.

 

[The Master]

I might sleep through the election as the results come in. I want to be able to sleep that night(big day at work on Wed) and if my party loses, I'll be up all night.

 

[Bunker]

Watching CNN from the time I get home from school to the time I go to bed. I'll be nervous as hell and posting here the whole time.

 

[Shifty]

Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert hosting live Indecision '08: America's Choice up here in Canada on CTV. Checking my laptop for updates on Fox News, CNN, NYT, Politico, Huffington.

 

[Paradoxium]

Don't spare the details. What type of booze and laptop are we talking here t:

 

[The Senator]

Two years.

This has been the length of time I have been focusing on this presidential campaign in great detail. There have been so many surprises, so many challenges which have emerged from this campaign, that I have found myself both disenchanted and utterly infatuated with the political system. I knew this election would be like no other, I knew that this would be the one event in my lifetime which actually mattered, to me.

I have a feeling that no matter what happens tomorrow night... there will be tears flowing from my eyes. The fact that we may see the first African American elected president did not sink in until I spoke to my grandfather this evening. He hasn't voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1968, he is a strong Christian conservative, he used to refer to Obama as "the colored guy"... and he said he will be voting for Obama. At the age of 80, he claims that a moment like this will never be seen again in his lifetime. And to watch as history escapes him, he says, would be irresponsible.

Now, I don't advocate voting for Obama because he could be the first African American president. No, what I'm trying to say with this analogy is that tomorrow night could be a pivotal point in our nation's history. So many people I have spoken with about this subject claim that they never thought they would see the day when an African American would have a fighting chance for the presidency. And these same people were even more astounded when the Democratic nomination came down to a black man and a woman, already setting in motion a turn of events which would be historic regardless of the election's outcome. If Barack Obama is elected, history will be made. So many barriers will be shattered. The rebirth of the American dream, the adage "you can be anything if you try hard enough," will be reignited in the hearts of so many people in this country. This is not an election like 1960, or 1980. This is an election like none we have ever seen, or one we may see in the near future.

So, while so many of us are planning to get trashed tomorrow night (myself included)... be reminded that the evening may result in a historic victory and an earth-shattering event which will be written about in history books for centuries. Remember that this could be an evening you tell your children and grandchildren about some day.

In other words: Be safe, and don't do anything stupid which may affect your stake in what could be one of the most historical events in our nation's history.

I will cry if McCain wins, I must admit... but I will cry even harder if I am a part of what could be a historical moment. In fact... I'm sort of looking forward to it...

 

[Bunker]

Brilliantly put, jman. I will be heartbroken if Obama loses.

 

[Spider-Bite]

working the polls

 

[The Apocalypse]

Picking up chicks

*cool walk*

Justtttt kidddinnnggg. I'll be home laughing at this whole election. Finally, something interesting in America.

 

[J. J. Jameson]

I'll be watching from the comfort of my own couch. And I'll be thinking, "Screw classes tomorrow!" and then regret it when I wake up at 5:30 AM the next morning.

 

[Holiday]

Great post jmanspice. Even though I live in Alabama which is a lock for McCain I knew I had to vote for the better man and be a part of history.