2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumELECTION DAY PARTIES! What are you planning?
Are you planning a party? Going to some gathering? What are your election day plans?
I'm always amazed that so many Americans treat election days as homework rather than as a reason to celebrate. I know, I know. Elections require research, they require time off to go to the polls, etc. Yet they are proof of concept. The idea formulated by the Founding Fathers made real and proved to work. This is how we should see elections; and I think all that's required to get more voters to feel this way is simply to hold an after-polling party. There are plenty of groups that already do this. They board up their members on buses to the polls. Then bring them back to some church where everyone feasts on good food and watches the returns. If more of us did that, held post-polling gatherings, I think we'd have more voters looking forward to elections rather than dreading them. Or blowing them off.
So. Do you have any election day plans? Are you going to a party/gathering or want to go? Anyone have places that DU voters might go to (churches, cafe's, block parties, coffee houses, bars...) or ideas for election day parties? Because I want to use this election to create a new tradition. Vote day (small as well as large!) = Party day. I, myself, plan on having a pot-luck chili party. There will be four different types of chili, cornbread, wine and beer, build-your-own ice cream sundaes, and a big screen tv to watch the returns. And plenty of American flags and Hillary stickers
How about you? If you've no party to go to, maybe we can find you one? And if you want to have one, maybe we can help you plan it?
radical noodle
(7,997 posts)Then going home, getting some soda and a snack and watching the results in my jammies!
BTW, too many of my neighbors are Trump supporters and I don't want to listen to their rants about rigging or civil wars.
meow2u3
(24,757 posts)Then I'll be headed to the "official" Election night watch party. I don't have cable.
radical noodle
(7,997 posts)I'm gonna be a baby and cry when (okay, if) she wins!
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Call.....around 10pm
Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)Attention, all Nasty Women and Bad Hombrés! With the third presidential debate mercifully behind us, the last remaining date in the death march that is the US election is the biggie: Election Day.
Gossip purveyors Popbitch have hooked up with Street Feast's Dinerama to throw the mother of all election-watching parties on Tuesday November 8, with proceedings going on past the small hours and into the medium-sized ones.
It's far from cheap at £53, but you'll get all-you-can-eat American food from BBQ Lab, Smokestak, Fundi, Slider Bar, Breddos and You Doughnut, a pint of Obama's favourite brew Goose Island 312 plus a shot of bourbon, election-themed quizzes, games, plus obviously plenty of TVs to follow the democratic action. Make it through to the 6am closing time and they'll even sort you out with a free survivors' breakfast. (Then grab an Uber home just in time to watch Donald Trump refuse to concede and threaten a coup!)
With room for 600 guests, it's going to be big. Yuuuge. Winning. Believe me!
Popbitch Presidential Party: Electile (Dys)Function at Street Feasts Diner...
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/popbitch-presidential-party-electile-dysfunction-at-street-feasts-dinerama-tickets-28650726093
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)Well done! Please get back to us Election day and let us know how it goes.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)Botany
(70,433 posts)Long ass day.
BTW it is really boring so I kind of hope a Trump Tea Bagger shows up so I can fuck w/him or her.
TlalocW
(15,373 posts)I'll be breaking my diet eating a crapton of tacos. I haven't decided if I'm going to get the cheap-but-good-enough ones from a nearby Taco Bell, or if I'll take a longer drive to a favorite Mexican restaurant. Unfortunately, I still haven't seen a lot of taco trucks in my city.
"A taco truck on every corner... I don't know that would necessarily be a problem so much as the solution to all my problems."
- Randy Rainbow
TlalocW
TonyPDX
(962 posts)Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)...your patriotic duty
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Okay... who am I kidding? We'll probably have a bottle or two!
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I'm an election judge and I'm looking forward to the 17-hour day (6am to approx. 11pm). Afterwards? Probably a six-pack.
livetohike
(22,118 posts)of champagne as soon as Hillary clinches.
Laffy Kat
(16,366 posts)I'm going to have some good friends over to watch the results. There may be alcohol involved. I'll check in here a few times, too.
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)Staying home and avoiding people and noise, as usual 😬
ailsagirl
(22,883 posts)We should hear the final results pretty early-- besides, it's a work night.
Doesn't mean I'm not excited as hell!!
manicraven
(901 posts)I'm planning to work early in the day, wear my new T-Shirt ("I'm a Nasty Woman and I Vote" , and spouse and I are planning his famous nachos (mine made with veggie crumbles). As with President Obama, we'll have a bottle of champagne chilling.
Not sure how much I'll actually eat because I already have butterflies! My stomach might be a total wreck by then.
Freddie
(9,256 posts)Camping on the couch in front of the TV with a beer or three.
Tacos is an excellent menu selection! I think the farm stand still has some real tomatoes.
ObamaKerryDem
(1,466 posts)...and somewhere with MSNBC when it's time for results - and hopefully some wine/champagne! *knock on wood*
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,811 posts)If we moved Election Day to a Friday or Saturday, then people could celebrate appropriately. Can't imagine WHAT they were thinking when they made it a Tuesday. Does any other country vote in the middle of the week?
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)In 1845, the United States was largely an agrarian society. Farmers often needed a full day to travel by horse-drawn vehicles to the county seat to vote. Tuesday was established as election day because it did not interfere with the Biblical Sabbath or with market day, which was on Wednesday in many towns.
People are still concerned with Sabbaths (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)maybe a Monday holiday? Or a Thursday-Friday holiday? So everyone gets a long weekend?
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,811 posts)Of course, if all states had early voting starting two, maybe three weeks before that Tuesday in November, we could still keep that date as our traditional Election Day.
I recall quite vividly, one of my teachers (I was in 7th grade that year) being sort of punch drunk the day after the election in 1960 because she'd stayed up very late hoping to see JFK win. It was still somewhat in the balance that morning.
BigDemVoter
(4,149 posts)As I work Wednesday morning, I certainly don't have big plans other than watching the election. . . Oh, and yes, my nephew lent me a "Volcano" vaporizer for weed. I am looking so forward to trying it.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)..Because Tues. Night My Stomach will hurt too much
from Laughter, And Multiple Shots Of Fire Ball.
Maeve
(42,269 posts)By then it will be all over but the shouting--I won't be home until 9, 9:30 EST and by then she'll have it mostly in the bag (sorry, west coast, but it's true!)
chillfactor
(7,572 posts)after the ballots are all counted.....and all the equipment put away....I am going to come home, collapse in my recliner, and hope I get to see when the election is called for Hillary.
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)Proud Public Servant
(2,097 posts)At which, thanks to the Hatch Act, I will not be able to emote. But after, there will hopefully be and not but regardless be and then and then more
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)...but my place is small.
True Dough
(17,245 posts)oldtime dfl_er
(6,930 posts)with all my ultra liberal neighbors!!
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)Leaving the next day on a 2-week trip through Thanksgiving. Long planned. I've known all year that it's either going to be a great mood on the trip or devastating, based on the election result.
LisaM
(27,791 posts)The signature cocktails will, of course, be the Bad Hombre and the Nasty Woman.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,852 posts)... Democratic events on November 8th around here and socialize a bit?
This election means a lot to me, not just because we can elect the first female President, but mostly because I consider Trump a yuuuge danger.
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)It takes a village, right?
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Maybe get tacos, thanks to the suggestions here.
To all who are volunteering - thank you thank you thank you!
Sorceress
(309 posts)I've always wanted to try this place but it isn't on my diet and I felt a little guilty. But we all decided this was how we were going to celebrate the election and I can't be the party pooper. We also have a tradition of switching to Faux News once we win in order to witness the meltdowns. It's the only time we watch it, of course. I don't think anything can top the Karl Rove breakdown but one can hope.
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)You've got me re-thinkign the menu on my own party!
But exactly what is the recipe for the Nasty Woman and Mean Hombre cocktails?
brooklynite
(94,294 posts)...but we'll be in the field, so whatever Party ODP and Clinton campaign organize.