How do you plan to spend Election Night? Here's what I'll be doing:

[Redstone]

I won't be on DU, not only because it will be a madhouse, and probably agonizingly slow (as will the entire Internet, from all the traffic).

Mrs R goes to bed early, so I'll be parked in front of the TV starting at about 8 PM because I won't want to miss a minute of the historic occasion we're about to live through.

I'll have to resist the urge to yell "HOT DAMN" because people will be asleep upstairs, and will have to resist the urge to jump up and down too much because of the blood clots in my leg.

But I'll have tears in my eyes, probably at more than one point during the evening. I won't be able to help it, seeing my beloved America FINALLY growing up, and electing a half-African, astonishingly intelligent, young, and honest President.

I will be more proud that I voted on that day than I have ever been before, because I'll have been part of one of the most significant events in American history.

I've long said that what America needs is a lesbian black woman in a wheelchair as our President, if only for the fact that she'd bring a different perspective to the office on so many levels.

That's not going to happen any time soon, but look at the changes Mr Obama will bring, besides providing us an end to the nightmare of the last eight years:

bushyboy: white-bread child of privilege.
Obama: Half-African child of a broken family.

bushyboy: Skates through Yale because his family gives Yale big bucks.
Obama: Works through Harvard on his intelligence and hard work.

bushyboy: Skated through life after college because his rich family bails him out every time he fails at something (and he fails at EVERYTHING).
Obama: WORKED through life after college, using his intelligence and energy.

I could go on and on, but you get the idea.

I'm telling you, this election is like no other in the history of this country. We cannot even compare it to Kennedy's election, as tempting as that may be, because remember, Kennedy was from a very wealthy family.

This time, it's different.

Redstone

[cali]

1. I'm spending the night with dear friends. there will be quite

a few of us. We're going to eat and watch and drink champagne, and we're going to set off fireworks.

[LSparkle]

2. I will be taking the day off from work ... voting, then watching

I'm going to buy at least one bottle of GOOD champagne
and set my DVR to record the historic evening. Hopefully
my S.O. will be with me (he's not as interested in politics
as I am, but I think he'll be willing to indulge me on
election night) and we will be able to toast the TRUE
beginning of the 21st Century (and the Age of Aquarius).

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

3. TV on...with no audio...radio on Air America...I think.

[mtnsnake]

4. I'm a late nighter so I'll be staying up and savoring it all. After it's official, I'll stay up more

I don't know how much I'll be posting on DU that night, although I'm sure I'll be running back and forth from the TV to the computer to check on DU regularly. I just want to experience a fucking blowout Tuesday night and smile for a month afterward.

[Xipe Totec]

5. I'll be in class

won't get home until 10:00PM

But I'll have a formation of UFO's waiting for me.



Probably stay home Wednesday.

[yellerpup]

6. This time it will be earned on merit.

By smarts and hard work and fearlessness. I'll be at the polls from 5:30 AM to however long it takes after 9:00 PM to get the vote counted and secured at my precinct. After that I'm going home for a slice of the sweet potato pie I'll make on Monday night and I'm going to cry in gratitude (and probably exhaustion) when the vote comes in because we will have elected That One, the person who will help us achieve the change we need. GObama! :dem: :dem: :dem:

Edited because I left out a word.

[InvisibleTouch]

7. I'll be on DU...

...if I can access it. If not, I'll be watching the results on TV with my dog pack.

[Mark E. Smith]

8. Having friends over

Gonna pah-tay!!

[otohara]

9. Poll Watcher For Guess Who?

although my credentials won't say that. I just hope it's not super cold outside, or they allow me to sit inside.

[rucky]

10. I'll be shouting at the TV and laughing at my neighbors.

[Mike 03]

11. After being stupid enough to sabotage my own account, I had to re enroll at the only place I would

ever be. Here.

[yellowdogintexas]

12. probably home, but might go down to the County Watch Party downtown

Depends on how tired I am.

If I am home I will probably be on DU for a while.

[justiceischeap]

13. Going to a bar in DC for a Watch Party

One of my roommates decided that she and I need to make friends 'cause we work from home and it's a good way to meet like-minded folks.

[PCIntern]

14. Tell ya what's NOT going to be going on:

All those asshole men who are voting for Palin b/c she's "HOT HOT HOT" will NOT get a chance to fuck her, no matter what they're thinking and NO MATTER WHAT. Dumbasses.

[Redstone]

21. God damn, you made me laugh out loud. And, not only will they NOT get a chance to

fuck HER, they'll never have a hope in hell of even coming close to the remote possibility of porking ANY woman even 10% as physically attractive as she is, losers that those wankers are.

My opinion? Yeah, she's not bad looking for a white girl, but damn if I'd be able to listen to her for more than two days before I'd be paying for a new identity so she wouldn't be able to find me after I disappeared.

Redstone

[crispini]

15. Candidate watch party.

And then the county watch party. Yeah!

[marlakay]

16. working at campaign office in afternoon

then tv all night at home. My husband who is not political says he is hiding from it all...

We vote by mail here so don't have to do that.

[IndianaJones]

17. Grant Park I hope. nt.

[XOKCowboy]

18. I hope to get home by 8PM - I'm working that day/night

I'll be following the early results on my Blackberry. From that point on I'll still be on the computer but glued to MSNBC. It's going to be one helluva night.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. My dear Redstone!

I'll most likely be right here, on DU...

I'm such a junkie! :P

But I'll be using my laptop, and being in the family room, where the super big TV is...

Watching history be made!

:toast:

[fizzgig]

20. i'm knocking on doors until about 4 p.m.

then coming home and settling onto the couch with my honey and maybe a few friends for snacks and beverages. there will be a bottle of champagne chilling and there are a few fireworks that have been hanging around the house for a few months, but i'm not going to even think of those until it's called.