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sweetcell

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good/fun places to watch election results?
« on: November 03, 2008, 02:21:00 pm »
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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miss pretentious

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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2008, 02:24:00 pm »
i was actually wondering the same thing sweetie.
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Vas Deferens

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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2008, 02:28:00 pm »
Sixth and I Synagogue!
 
 Election Night Watch Party
 Tuesday, November 4
 7:30 â?? 11:00 p.m.
 
 Donâ??t watch the election results on your couch â?? watch it on ours. Get civic with us! Join Sixth & I, Humanity in Action and Institut Montaigne for a festive evening, complete with big-screen TVs, expert commentary from unique perspectives, live blogging, all-American food, a cash bar and a photo-op with the candidates (or their cardboard twins). Commentators include Georgetown Law Professor and former Robert Kennedy top adviser, Peter Edelman; Legal Correspondent for The New Republic and Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, Jeffrey Rosen; and others. Win prizes! FREE. Please RSVP here.
 
 http://www.sixthandi.org/Events.htm
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2008, 02:31:00 pm »
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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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2008, 02:48:00 pm »
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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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2008, 02:51:00 pm »
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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...
 
   
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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 - or are you talking about the venue & its prices?
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miss pretentious

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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2008, 03:02:00 pm »
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Originally posted by sweetcell:
   
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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...
 
   
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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 - 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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HoyaSaxa03

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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2008, 03:02:00 pm »
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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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
« Reply #8 on: November 03, 2008, 03:07:00 pm »
52" tv, dtv news mix channel, everything reclines, and a case of murphys. why would i leave home
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Herr Professor Doktor Doom

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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2008, 03:14:00 pm »
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Originally posted by miss pretentious:
   
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Originally posted by sweetcell:
   
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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...
 
     
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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 - 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
 
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2008, 03:53:00 pm »
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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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2008, 04:36:00 pm »
Does anyone know where I can buy noisemakers?  Does CVS carry them?
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2008, 04:37:00 pm »
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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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
« Reply #13 on: November 03, 2008, 05:02:00 pm »
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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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2008, 05:15:00 pm »
No Street Teaming allowed here...
 
 
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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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