What were you doing 4 years ago tonight?

[Puglover]

I was relaxed around this time. So relaxed I fell asleep on the couch around 10pm with a smile on my face knowing Gore won. I woke up at 2am listening to some pundit calling it for Bush. Honestly what a horrible memory that is.
It feels different this time.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. I was so disgusted with Gore .........

.. I refused to look at any campaign coverage, went to bed, woke up, asked my husband who won, and he said, "No one."

He was right.

This is SO much better..........

[kitchen girl]

9. I did the same thing.

Said, "I just don't want to know" and went to bed.

[Kierkegaard]

2. It feels waaaay different.

I went to bed early, too. Overconfident. Not this time. No stopping until the Neocons are packed and leaving the building!

NEVER underestimate the power of a pissed off Lib!

[AngryOldDem]

3. Stayed up all night

Six months pregnant at the time, too.

I was getting ready to call it a night when Gore conceded. Just as I went to turn off the TV, it came across that he had retracted the concession. I stayed up the rest of the night. I think that is the first night in my life that I didn't go to sleep or go to bed.

Four years older; don't know if I can take another night like that one.

[Bunny]

4. I had the exact same experience.

Fell asleep around 10:00 or 11:00, just as they were calling it for Gore. Woke up (inexplicably) around 2:00, saw that it was changed to Bush, then did not go back to sleep the rest of the night! Yuck, what an awful memory - those next five weeks were hell too. :mad:

[woofless]

5. Drinking at the Elks Lodge in Jefferson City, MO

At least I think so. Usually was in those days.

[jayctravis]

6. I was backstage doing a musical...

In Boca Raton. Didn't vote. Yes I'm stupid.

But with the economy, many of the places I worked at closed. So now I do phone customer service.

[Zorra]

7. Making preparations to move to Mexico when Bu$h got selected. n/t

[foreigncorrespondent]

8. Around this time...

...I went with Sapphocrat to her local polling place while she voted. We then came home, had dinner, and settled in front of the tv for what was to turn out to be a hell of a long night.

2000 was my first ever experience in the U.S. election process, and I hope I never see another nightmare election like that one again.

I wish I was there to experience this one with all of you, but unfortunately I'm not, and I gotta go to work in a few hours too! So I am hoping Sapph will call me on my cell later on tonight to give me the good news that Kerry has won. :)

[ilovenicepeople]

10. Shaking in my boots

Praying that your country would not elect another bUSH (they scare me)I always pictured nukes when a bUSH is running for Prez.:scared: :nuke: :scared:

[Piperay]

11. Horrible night

that was just an awful night especially when they took Florida away from Gore after giving it to him. :cry: I remember hanging out on a board that had nothing to do with politics but people were interested and reporting what was going on. There was a reporter from a local paper in San Antonio who was posting on this board from her laptap. The reporter was for Gore and hated the bushies she kept talking about how drunk they were falling all over the place and making asses of themselves. At that time there was no DU or anything like it but it helped to be able to post back and forth on that board and get a laugh off the drunken repukes.

[Skittles]

12. sh***ing bricks

nt

[NinetySix]

13. Marvelling that Florida had gone so quickly for Al Gore

And having no idea that I would later be crushed by the results of Bush's ingenious electoral fraud.

[LSK]

14. same thing, surfing the web and channel surfing

And fearing the world would end with a MORON as President.

[UNIXcock]

15. ... biting my fingernails

... much like tonight

[Jose Diablo]

16. Sitting in a bar in Winston-Salem, NC

Drinking Budweisers and watching the election on CNN.

[peacebuzzard]

17. on a flight to Brazil to celebrate the probable Gore w/ Fla win....

before landing, one of the flight attendants told me news transmitted to pilots called it for Bush...the rest has been this nightmare.

[bobbieinok]

18. watching returns at Tulsa OK co watch party with RCatholic young

woman from Palestine. First time I ever went to watch party; NOT doing it this year.

She and her husband had been asking me all that summer how people could vote for Bush and what was with the TV commentators.

Interesting year to be introduced to US presidential voting,

[CRK7376]

19. traveling for

the government and watching the results after voting for Gore the week before....Stayed up way to late watching and then dreading the results...

[malmapus]

20. I was on way home

From work, heard on the radio in my gf's car that Florida went to Gore. Was sooo happy. Then by time got home Florida was undecided, a sick feeling began in my stomach.

Went to bed that night with thoughts of a Bush presidency and the worst case of nausea.

[SarahB]

21. Let's see....

I was 2 months pregnant, nauseas, went to a Pampered Chef party (:boring:, but I got a nice apple slicer I still use), and then I got home and spent the rest of the evening in a schizophrenic limbo. Couldn't sleep until 1:00am, then kept waking up to check the results... really, really tired the next day.

[Historic NY]

22. screaming at the TV & talking heads!!!!!!

[nodehopper]

23. I was happy, then depressed, then confused and hopeful

As the night progressed and I was transfixed to the TV in my Brooklyn apartment

[slackmaster]

24. Having a Manhattan cocktail at the Turf Supper Club

Talking to a nice young woman who was very upset at the apparent results of the Presidential election.

I was still too recently divorced to hit on her. I'll always wonder what might have happened that night...

[underseasurveyor]

25. Driving all night to Colorado

from Iowa to be with my bestest friend in the world at her father's funeral. We were just crossing into Colorado as the sun was coming up and that's when I first heard on the radio about possible voting problems in Florida. The first words out of my mouth then were the same ones I screamed out again on Sept. 11th 2001.
"That mother fucking son of a bitch! That son of a fucking bitch did it!" :-(
It was a sad time all around and very surreal.

[Dyctator]

26. I stayed up with my bottle of champagne... waiting....

Then i drank it out of disgust for our flawed system.

I almost sued for whiplash

Bush

GORE

BUSH

gore

I couldn't take it anymore. I got drunk.