ELECTION 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?
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Well done! 
Please get back to us Election day and let us know how it goes.
...your patriotic duty 
Okay... who am I kidding? We'll probably have a bottle or two!
We should hear the final results pretty early-- besides, it's a work night.
Doesn't mean I'm not excited as hell!!
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.
...and somewhere with MSNBC when it's time for results - and hopefully some wine/champagne! *knock on wood* 
..Because Tues. Night My Stomach will hurt too much
from Laughter, And Multiple Shots Of Fire Ball. 
Seriously! It's going to be a long and exhausting day, I imagine. 
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
...but my place is small. 
with all my ultra liberal neighbors!!
It takes a village, right?
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.
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? 