Happy Election Day USA people.
Things to do while you wait:
Educate yourself on the drinking habits of past presidents by reading Four More Beers:One of the most striking differences between U.S. presidents is how they choose to stock the White House bar.
Enjoy a poem. Any poem. I found the following gem at The Hairpin.
Toward what island-home am I moving
Listen to “the most relaxing songs ever”, or find your own tuneful sedative. I find that Damien Rice’s The Blower’s Daughter, Yo-Yo Ma’s Bach, Cello Suites, Bach’s Air, or any number of Jason Mraz or Pink Floyd tunes, calming.
Eat a veggie sub from Subway. I’m on my way to get one now. I am addicted to them. Then go drive people to the polls for few hours.
Don’t watch any election coverage until tomorrow. Instead catch up on something you never have time to watch. I’m going to do the first season of American Horror Story.
Don’t start drinking too early. However, it is advisable to have your favorite drink in stock as either way you are going to need it.
“Don’t watch any election coverage until tomorrow”
And you are going to do this?
Liar
American Horror Story Asylum, this season is different than last.
I tried.
I’m not watching until night. I suspect you will too :) I understand the intent though
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I am so far getting my info online. Jon Stewart comes on a 11 though.
I’m just hoping Maryland finally settles it, gays can marry for good, and forever, or until divorce as with heterosexuals, and Maryland’s Dream Act passes. I’m tired of hearing about question 7. I don’t care so much about adding gaming tables but does PG county really need a casino? I don’t know and I was kind of ambivalent on that one.
Jacob, I just posted some stuff on Maryland. So far the gambling is neck and neck, marriage equity is almost tied, so pisses me off, and the tuition rates for immigrants is winning.
I’ve been ignoring it for weeks. To much white noise. At least tomorrow some of that noise will end.
Music and alcohol works, but that list of most relaxing songs is horrible, your choices better, though Jack Johnson, or Pink Floyd would work as well.
happy election
Thanks g man.
I was on call all night and because of that got to watch all night coverage. Otherwise I’d have been asleep as soon as it was called. Good for Maryland for passing two very important bills.
What can I say.
Happy?
You can stay in Maryland now?
I know you watched election coverage!
I stayed up most of my night, and woke up at the crack of dawn to see what kind of fight the world is in for. I was glad to see that it isn’t going to be as much of a battle as I’d feared.
I was reading most things on twitter or other news feeds. Much better than the broadcast news coverage. It was over long before I thought it would be, thank goodness.
Are you back in the country?
I voted absentee, I’m as satisfied as one can be though it’s not been optimal for a long time.
Romney was a poor choice, there are probably some things he could do successfully, at this point it escapes me what those things could be.
I voted absentee as well.
I really don’t routinely watch much TV, except Dexter (which I lost interest in) and am starting to enjoying again since it has begun to wrap up.
Watching some republicans make up excuses after the election has been as entertaining as watching Wile E.Coyote get smashed by his own booby-trap. It is the consistency in form that gets me every time.
I still love me some Dexter. I’m not up to date on it though.
I didn’t read this in time. What can I say? I’m a sucker for numbers and percentages and states changing colors. And John King, of course.
But speaking of elections and drinking beer, my own little metropolis voted Tuesday to remain “dry,” thus remaining the largest dry city in the state. Kind of a quirky claim to… something, I guess.
Thoroughly enjoyed the poem.
There is a town not far from where I live that has been dry forever. This year however, though they can’t have liquor stores, they have voted in allowing liquor at local restaurants.
I spent the day watching polls and knocking on doors. Every single person who I met while door-knocking had already voted for Elizabeth Warren, and like half of them thanked me profusely for being out there. There was a family of four who saw me with my coat festooned with campaign stickers and my hat with a big Somerville for Warren button on it and treated me like I was a rock star, especially the kids. Even moreso when I puffed out my chest and told them to forget that +3 RCP polling average, my candidate would be winning by no less than 6 points and as many as 8 points, thank you very much.
My new hometown gave her a margin of 20,000 votes with 70% turnout. We also approved a new community investment initiative.
I had a pretty great election day. How was yours?
It was over long before I thought it would be. I registered last winter to vote absentee because my job makes it impossible to know where I’ll be. I was here though, and did a few hours driving people to the polls.
I’ve been out of the country quite a bit and really did not feel frantic about the election results. I could not see Romney winning, he was such a horrible candidate, even the dullest among us could see he had no idea that lower middle class was not making 200,000 grand a year.
I followed the dream act and same sex marriage races in Maryland until it was declared they passed. Both were fairly close but I was happy to see the result.
I was happy to see Warren win.
The ballot initiative wins for marriage equality were certainly some of the best news of the night. Glad to hear you were able to pitch in.
I was actually ready with the bubbly when Ohio came in. Nate Silver had me pretty confident at the Presidential level. What I was worried about was a too-close election leading to a weak hand when the time comes to deal with the so-called fiscal cliff, so I was a bit on edge.
There is, I think, a book to be written about the one-sheet evaluation from which all GOP confidence in its recent candidates seems to have been derived. Romney was “commonsense business guy,” Ryan was “budget guy,” McCain was alternately “war guy” or “straight talk guy,” and Palin was “woman guy.”
All of these labels suggest a valuable quality about each candidate which utterly failed to manifest itself in any useful way, and are the reason why Republicans scoffed at the notion that they might be unappealing to the electorate. McCain seemed to think it was a great idea to start a war with Russia, and tossed away the entirety of his reputational capital re: integrity. Palin seemed to think that being a woman in politics made her a feminist. Romney and Ryan would appear to be completely incapable of doing basic budget math if you took their proposals seriously (hah!), and Romney criticized Obama for having an investment record with a smaller percentage of bankruptcies than his own time at Bain.
The short explanation for this is Fox News, but one could probably stretch it for a couple hundred more pages.