good/fun places to watch election results?

[sweetcell]

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...

[Jaguar]

That was before my drinking days but I do remember hearing talk of it.

[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.

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

I was under the impression the whole get people drunk and on the bandwagon law went out with prohibition.

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

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?

[Jaguar]

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
 
 "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]

[sonickteam2]

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!

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by you be betty:
  favorite dive bars in alphabet city

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[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

[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.

[Vas Deferens]

Obama Victory Party @ manimtired's home.

[nkotb]

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.

[kosmo vinyl]

looks like it sucks to be voting at a particular  silver spring location today... two hour + wait

[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.

[Christine Moritz]

Washingtonpost.com article on election-night parties:
 
 http://voices.washingtonpost.com/goingoutgurus/2008/10/election-watch_party_planning.html