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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:15 PM
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Poll question: Are you going to stay up all night and wait for election results Tuesday?
After the polls close Tuesday night...

Are you going to stay up all night and wait for election results?

Or will you go to bed early and hope for good news Wednesday morning?
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texasleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:16 PM
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1. I'll need some crystal meth and a hooker, but yes.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:17 PM
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:spray:
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Red Right and BLUE Donating Member (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:17 PM
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3. HAHAHHAHAHA!!
You win
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Shipwack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 06:00 PM
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18. Huh? Who let the Republican in here??!! ;) nt
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Red Right and BLUE Donating Member (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:17 PM
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2. I can't wait.
I'll be nibbling snacks and staring all night.
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Beelzebud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:18 PM
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4. I'm buying 2 bottles of wine, and some marijuana to get me through the night.
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featherman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:19 PM
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5. Luckily, here on the West Coast, it doesn't go too late
Election coverage starts at 4:00 PM with early results a little after 5:00. Most of the action in the House flip will occur in the Eastern & Midwest time zones. I do anticipate several races to be still undecided well into Wednesday or beyond.
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ncrainbowgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:19 PM
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6. Going to a DU meetup- Durham, NC to watch the returns roll in
If you're reading this and are within driving distance of Durham, and don't know about the meetup, head on over to the NC forum- we've got a room reserved at a restaurant/bar... and much fun will be had!
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KingFlorez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:21 PM
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7. If I can stay awake
I'm going to try my best to stay up
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:22 PM
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8. It's my Friday.
I'll be doing the all night celebration thing.
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AValdoux Donating Member (738 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:27 PM
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9. I don't think it will be over
These monsters won't go away with diginity. I'm expecting a lot of challenges. That's why MSM is covering the e-voting issue. I don't expect Rove & his gang to concede gracefully. I think it will be maybe weeks before we know. There will probably be court cases, recounts, etc. I wouldn't be surprised to see this go on until January.

The thing to focus on will be what are they going to push through in their last weeks in control. It will be get while the getting is good.


AValdoux
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guinivere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:30 PM
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10. I'll wait until Wednesday morning.
I have to be up to get ready for work by 5am.
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BelgianMadCow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:37 PM
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12. Ditto that
and dunno if I can really muster the fortitude required NOT to follow it.

:sigh:
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MazeRat7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:32 PM
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11. I'll check back on things just before Thanksgiving.....
It should be all sorted out by then :smoke:

MZr7
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Perky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:38 PM
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13. WE WILL KNOW if we take back the House by 9:30!!!
The Senate by 11.

The battlegrounds are very skewed to the east coast and time sone...but I will be up for as long as it takes
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:40 PM
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15. oh that's right. E-voting machines speed up tally right?
I just won't be able to deal with the stress of the talking heads! Listening to them would be torture for me.
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LaPera Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:40 PM
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14. I'll be there watching the votes switcted on the machines early in the morning-
makes for a great eye opener!
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:48 PM
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16. Up all nite & hoping I don't have to drive cross country to DC..
...which is what I'll be doing if the pukes "win" the House of Representatives.
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tenshi816 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:54 PM
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17. It's very frustrating for me because
when the polls close on the east coast in America, it's midnight in the UK. It's a long, long night of watching CNN International coverage.

I remember in 2004 lying on the sofa watching the early returns come in and feeling pretty comfortable that things were looking good for John Kerry, then I dozed off for a while and when I woke up the Idiot Son was winning. I was shocked and horrified and actually blamed myself for falling asleep (as if that was the reason for the change in the results).

I've got a good supply of espresso in now and plan to be tanked up on caffeine all night next Tuesday.
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Shipwack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 06:02 PM
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19. Staying up will do no good, but I'm afraid to sleep.
The last two times I stayed up during a tense situation were Katrina and the '04 election. Both times I went to bed thinking that disaster was averted, but then woke up to... well, you know.


::sigh::
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Vadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 06:07 PM
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20. It won't take that long! They will have the results by 11:00 pm...n/t
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 06:10 PM
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21. Not sure because I don't think there will be final results in many races
for days or weeks.
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Hamlette Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 06:12 PM
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22. staying up all night like I have every election since 1960
or at least until it is decided.

My extended family got together for the world series and elections. There would alway be a huge family party, all generations, tons of talking, drinking and food. (sigh, thems were the days)

I'm so lucky, there was MUCH more contention over the world series (back then it seems it was always the Yankees against some other team). We were all democrats. (We almost always backed whichever team was going against the Yankees too. Underdog syndrome.)
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mtnester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 06:13 PM
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23. I will probably still be standing at a poll, making sure the last person voted
Edited on Fri Nov-03-06 06:20 PM by mtnester
and that everything is being closed down and taken back properly.

In 2004, last person was 1250 AM, machines down and out around 0145 hours....home by 0215 AM

I expect it will be worse this time.

The life of a poll watcher....standing in the rain too most likely.

Crying because of the horrid and blatant disenfranchisement.

Seething with rage as well.
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 06:18 PM
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24. I don't get it. I thought most polls closed around 7pm?
Were you in a very overcrowded/underprepared district?
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mtnester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 06:24 PM
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28. I was in a building that USED to have one precinct vote
then they combined it with a large ethnic precinct, and cut the machines in half.

The last person in line at 7:30 PM voted at 0050 hours. The building is so small, outside of the poll workers, only room for about 20 other people at a time. It was raining and cold, and most waited outside.

Was the precinct unprepared? No....was everything about it devised to deny people the right to vote? Absodamnlutely.

My story is out there, and on an affidavit.

Ohio - Franklin County.
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 06:19 PM
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25. Wish I could.
Unfortunately, I'm in the UK, and it'll be well past my bedtime when the real results start to come in.
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 06:20 PM
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26. We'll Be Watching Olbermann
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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 07:00 PM
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31. Count another one in for Olbermann
I'm counting on him to call it like it is...whatever it is.
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Reciprocity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 06:22 PM
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27. I normally stay up.
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 06:30 PM
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29. self edit
Edited on Fri Nov-03-06 06:35 PM by BushDespiser12
after seeing the first reply - i'm a day late and a dollar short :-(
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StellaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 06:34 PM
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30. I am having a party
About 15 people slated to show (I have a 650-sq-ft apartment!).

I have weird hours, work 5-9am and 1-5pm, so I am going to go to sleep at like 7pm Monday night, then take a four-hour nap Tuesday morning, then stay up all night. I mean, I have to get up at like 4, anyway!

In 2004 I was in the UK, and I camped out on our downstairs sofa much to the confusion/consternation of by British ex, and dozed in and out of sleep, shocked and horrified at what I heard, as a nightmare.

This time WILL be different.

I mean, I've got friends - and beer.
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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 07:27 PM
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32. Will be up all night working night shift.
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Dob Bole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-04-06 07:33 AM
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33. HELL NO! I did that in 2000...
I had just started college, and decided to stay up until there was a president.

I stayed awake for THREE DAYS, which is apparently almost deadly. So I've learned my lesson, and I'll read the news Wednesday morning.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-04-06 07:37 AM
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34. Up all night. No way I'll get any sleep.
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purji Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-04-06 07:38 AM
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35. I even have Wed.off at work.n/t
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