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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: sweetcell on November 03, 2008, 02:21:00 pm
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anyone got any suggestions? where will you watch the polling results? will you be watching?
i'm trying to decide between watching them in my hotel room (BYOB, ability to change channels at will) vs. going out. watched the last election results in a bar and had a hoot, despite the outcome.
and before all the cooler-than-thou hipsters pipe up: this is DC. presidential elections are as big as the super bowl. i know of at least one place that is selling $50 open-bar tickets...
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i was actually wondering the same thing sweetie.
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Election Night Watch Party
Tuesday, November 4
7:30 â?? 11:00 p.m.
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there is a byt election watching party .. but i fear it may be too rich for my blood.
o.O at 6 & I. that's right by my house.
seriously tho, i want to go do something.
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I'm doing Get Out the Vote work in VA tomorrow... I hope to come back in time for a celebratory drink at Wonderland when it's all over...
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Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
Sixth and I Synagogue!
Election Night Watch Party
Tuesday, November 4
7:30 â?? 11:00 p.m.
interesting. might potentially be too dorky for me, what with the professor giving a talk and all, or maybe not...
Originally posted by miss pretentious:
there is a byt election watching party .. but i fear it may be too rich for my blood.
t'iz only $5 (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/events/byt-election-party-2008/) - or are you talking about the venue & its prices?
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Originally posted by sweetcell:
Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
Sixth and I Synagogue!
Election Night Watch Party
Tuesday, November 4
7:30 â?? 11:00 p.m.
interesting. might potentially be too dorky for me, what with the professor giving a talk and all, or maybe not...
Originally posted by miss pretentious:
there is a byt election watching party .. but i fear it may be too rich for my blood.
t'iz only $5 (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/events/byt-election-party-2008/) - or are you talking about the venue & its prices? [/b]
ys am talking about the venue/prices. the drink specials involve ciroc =/
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the same place where i watched the bucs' super bowl and the 2000 and 2004 elections: my couch, dark empty room, bottle of bourbon and tissues at arms-reach
directv-ites: check out the news-mix on channel 352, it may come in handy tomorrow
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52" tv, dtv news mix channel, everything reclines, and a case of murphys. why would i leave home
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Originally posted by miss pretentious:
Originally posted by sweetcell:
Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
Sixth and I Synagogue!
Election Night Watch Party
Tuesday, November 4
7:30 â?? 11:00 p.m.
interesting. might potentially be too dorky for me, what with the professor giving a talk and all, or maybe not...
Originally posted by miss pretentious:
there is a byt election watching party .. but i fear it may be too rich for my blood.
t'iz only $5 (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/events/byt-election-party-2008/) - or are you talking about the venue & its prices? [/b]
ys am talking about the venue/prices. the drink specials involve ciroc =/ [/b]
yeah but for that you get the "BYT Bikini Squad." :D
Come to Wonderland!
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There really is no better place than one's own home... when you watch election results at bars/hotels you can never really hear anything and its tough to focus on whats going on...Also at home you can have a laptop or two giving you the instant results unfiltered...Lastly, at home I can drink to my heart/livers content practically for free....
I think i'm staying in and once its clear Obama has finally defeated these bunch of crooks that have been running the country into the ground I'll go out and celebrate at the Mayflower and/or U street..
now let me make sure that champagne bottle is in the fridge...
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Does anyone know where I can buy noisemakers? Does CVS carry them?
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My couch post-Bad Brains show.
Hopefully by then though, it'll all be over and I'll get home just in time for the victory/concession
speeches.
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UGH! You should all come to the Iota and see Jolie Holland! COME ON. I'll even let you buy me drinks.
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No Street Teaming allowed here...
Originally posted by Samantha:
UGH! You should all come to the Iota and see Jolie Holland! COME ON. I'll even let you buy me drinks.
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Originally posted by Samantha:
I'll even let you buy me drinks.
really? how generous of you.
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I generally insist on women buying me drinks...
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Originally posted by sweetcell:
Originally posted by miss pretentious:
there is a byt election watching party .. but i fear it may be too rich for my blood.
t'iz only $5 (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/events/byt-election-party-2008/) - or are you talking about the venue & its prices? [/b]
Yeah, but it's $25 if you don't come coked up and only wearing your underwear.
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Originally posted by hutch:
now let me make sure that champagne bottle is in the fridge...
Oh no, I hope you don't mean a regular refrigerator! It should be a crime for people not to own a proper wine chiller. Vinocide should get you a nickel in a federal pen.
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Originally posted by miss pretentious:
the drink specials involve ciroc =/
That's "special" indeed.
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if you're in Baltimore there's this at the Ottobar
ELECTION NIGHT DANCE PARTY
with 2 4 1 drinks upstairs and downstairs.
Watch CNN election results on a big screen T.V. downstairs
with dj's Emily Rabbit, Craig Boarman, DJ Mills
Mark Zimin, Robbie Fearless, Heartbreak Beat and Simon the Phoenix
Doors open at 8pm- $3 COVER- 18 & OVER
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Home, people. The best place. And I just hope its over before bedtime. If Obama wins, I'm happy. If McCain wins, I kind of hope the conservative, right wing warnings come true and we sink into a period of cold, brutal socialism marked by censorship, breadlines, and despotic rule. And then we are forced to fight back with nothing but molotov cocktails and the hunting rifles we were forced to bury in our back yards when the Obama regime took power. And then, when the smoke clears, that beacon of democracy, Sarah Palin, rises from the ashes and leads us to freedom again. It will be like "Red Dawn". But with Sarah Palin. That would be awesome.
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thats weird.
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For once Julian is actually funny :D
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Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:
Originally posted by sweetcell:
Originally posted by miss pretentious:
there is a byt election watching party .. but i fear it may be too rich for my blood.
t'iz only $5 (http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/events/byt-election-party-2008/) - or are you talking about the venue & its prices? [/b]
Yeah, but it's $25 if you don't come coked up and only wearing your underwear. [/b]
do you get your $20 back if you at least leave that way?
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Originally posted by sweetcell:
and before all the cooler-than-thou hipsters pipe up: this is DC. presidential elections are as big as the super bowl. i know of at least one place that is selling $50 open-bar tickets...
Isn't that sort of on the illegal side? Or, at least, it use to be. Yet, I can fully understand the desire to meet up and sulk or cheer as you anxiously watch the returns as though it's some sports event.
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Originally posted by Jaguar:
Isn't that sort of on the illegal side? Or, at least, it use to be.
What law would it be breaking?
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Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
Does anyone know where I can buy noisemakers? Does CVS carry them?
I would bet that Party City has them getting ready for New Year's. Don't know where the closest one to you is but you may very well have to go out into the burbs.
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Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:
Originally posted by hutch:
now let me make sure that champagne bottle is in the fridge...
Oh no, I hope you don't mean a regular refrigerator! It should be a crime for people not to own a proper wine chiller. Vinocide should get you a nickel in a federal pen. [/b]
Vinocide. Ha! I like that word.
Neither for a good champagne. It destroys the delicate bubble. Ice it down, baby, and wrap a linen napkin around that succulent nectar of the French gods!
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Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Isn't that sort of on the illegal side? Or, at least, it use to be.
What law would it be breaking? [/b]
At one time it was illegal for bars to be open during election time. But even so, if it's all after the polls close, it wouldn't be an issue. It had to do with preventing unscrupulous practices of getting people drunk then they going in to vote for whomever the provider chooses. Think they may have lifted that law a number of years ago though and not sure if it was a state to state thing or national.
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Originally posted by Jaguar:
Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Isn't that sort of on the illegal side? Or, at least, it use to be.
What law would it be breaking? [/b]
At one time it was illegal for bars to be opened during election time. [/b]
pretty sure that's not the case anymore (remind us how young you are, bags? :p ) proof: the BYT party is starting at 3 PM. then again, they are of the coke-and-underwear persuasion, so what they do might not be a good benchmark for legality...
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That was before my drinking days but I do remember hearing talk of it.
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i'm going to probably hang out at one of my favorite dive bars in alphabet city, in my underwear, with coke. lots.
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I was under the impression the whole get people drunk and on the bandwagon law went out with prohibition.
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Originally posted by you be betty:
i'm going to probably hang out at one of my favorite dive bars in alphabet city, in my underwear, with coke. lots.
Just so we're clear: 18 yet?
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Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:
I was under the impression the whole get people drunk and on the bandwagon law went out with prohibition.
Nope. In fact, some states still impose a ban on alcohol on Election days.
It was a bitch trying to weed through search engines trying to find who changed when but here's something more current that gets to the point. I don't think Maryland changed their laws until the '60s or '70s but I'm tired of searching.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/10/index.html (http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/10/index.html)
"Come Tuesday, some voters still can't choose ... to buy a drink
Seven states have some sort of ban on Election Day liquor sales, and that doesn't go down well with the Distilled Spirits Council.
The Election Day sales ban is a ridiculous relic of the Prohibition era when saloons sometimes served as polling stations," says council Vice President David Wojnar in a statement his organization released today. "Repealing the 1930s ban on Election Day alcohol sales would provide adult consumers with much-needed convenience â??- whether they're celebrating election returns or mourning them."
The seven states that the council says need to loosen up:
â?¢ Kentucky, Indiana and South Carolina, which have statewide bans on alcohol sales at restaurants, bars and package stores.
â?¢ Utah and West Virginia, where sales are prohibited at package stores.
â?¢ Alaska and Massachusetts, which ban sales, "except that local governments are authorized to provide an exemption from the ban."[/b]
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Speaking of drinking games, a couple of neighbors are gathering at our house tomorrow night and we've come up with an election drinking game.
the rules are simple: Chug a beer or do a shot, each time Obama wins a state that was won by Bush in 2004. We would have gone with only Obama supporters doing this and McCain supporters drinking when McCain won a Kerry state from 2004, but the fact is, none of us are McCain supporters and aside from Pennsylvania it looks unlikely McCain will actually do that since Kerry only really won like 15 states!
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Originally posted by you be betty:
favorite dive bars in alphabet city
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last election,I spent watching the results at the blarney stone in fells point with like 4 other people at the bar...this year probably just at home cuz I have felt like shit for the past two days, ugh.
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Obama Victory Party @ manimtired's home.
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The Blarney Stone! I haven't been to that place in years!
Originally posted by Got Haggis?:
last election,I spent watching the results at the blarney stone in fells point with like 4 other people at the bar...this year probably just at home cuz I have felt like shit for the past two days, ugh.
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looks like it sucks to be voting at a particular silver spring location today... two hour + wait
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
looks like it sucks to be voting at a particular silver spring location today... two hour + wait
I'm not surprised. There were a few hundred people at my SS location at 7:30 this morning. It was moving pretty well though.
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Washingtonpost.com article on election-night parties:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/goingoutgurus/2008/10/election-watch_party_planning.html (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/goingoutgurus/2008/10/election-watch_party_planning.html)
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I never changed my address when I moved. Is it OK to vote in the district where I used to live? It's the same county... ;)
oops...nevermind...
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i believe as long as you didn't try to register at the new address you are still on the roles at the old address... you can always go to the old polling site and get a provisional ballot...
go here to verify where you are registered
http://www.mdelections.org/voter_registration/v2/vote_prod.php (http://www.mdelections.org/voter_registration/v2/vote_prod.php) if you are in MD that is
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Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
I never changed my address when I moved. Is it OK to vote in the district where I used to live? It's the same county... ;)
OMFG LIBERAL ELITE VOTER FRAUD CALL THE CIA/FBI/ATF/NAVY SEALS!!!111
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Ok thanks kosmo...i'm still registered at the old addy's district...!
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
i believe as long as you didn't try to register at the new address you are still on the roles at the old address... you can always go to the old polling site and get a provisional ballot...
go here to verify where you are registered
http://www.mdelections.org/voter_registration/v2/vote_prod.php (http://www.mdelections.org/voter_registration/v2/vote_prod.php) if you are in MD that is
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that site came in handy for me as my address at one point was incorrectly entered and because of that i was assigned to a different polling place than kosmette... sent in a request for address change to PG county then never heard back from them, it was through that site i found it had been fixed...
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Nah, it's not fraud ;)
Originally posted by sweetcell:
Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
I never changed my address when I moved. Is it OK to vote in the district where I used to live? It's the same county... ;)
OMFG LIBERAL ELITE VOTER FRAUD CALL THE CIA/FBI/ATF/NAVY SEALS!!!111 [/b]
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I treated the election like the DC DMV. Went mid-morning, hoping to catch a relative lull between the before work crowd and the lunch rush. Worked out fairly well, I think, as the whole thing took me 45 minutes.
Three t.v. cameras at my mid-town DC polling location.
Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
looks like it sucks to be voting at a particular silver spring location today... two hour + wait
I'm not surprised. There were a few hundred people at my SS location at 7:30 this morning. It was moving pretty well though. [/b]
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Voting at my place in Alexandria took me 5 minutes today around 2-ish. Glad I waited. My poor wife was in line for an hour and a half.
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I usually go mid-morning and never have a line, but yesterday I went by and the parking lot was full so I said frak it. I went back at 4, when I assumed the after-work rush would begin, but there was no one there. No line, unless you wanted to use the single electronic voting machine...so I just grabbed a paper ballot, did the damn thing, and left. 5 minutes tops, while a handful of people waited because they're too good for paper. Bizarre.
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I never changed registration from Maryland so I voted at the Elementary School I went to growing up. Didn't recognize the place at all. Took 20 minutes at the most. No lines.
Best place to see the election results? In front of the White House!!! I hopped on my bike around 11:15 after hearing my neighborhood HOWLING and went down to 17th and Penn. Good times.
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Originally posted by econo:
Best place to see the election results? In front of the White House!!! I hopped on my bike around 11:15 after hearing my neighborhood HOWLING and went down to 17th and Penn. Good times.
yes it was (http://www.wearevotingyes.com/2008/11/200-am-at-white-house-november-5.html)
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14th and U!
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