[Closed] US Election Late Nighers? Who's staying up as the results come in?

Obviously important but given I have zero influence in it and so am just along for the ride, I'll be off to kip.

Not a chance,

I'm not going to watch it all night but I hope Harris wins for many, many reasons including world stability, Ukraine,  Trump being prosecuted etc. etc.

Another big reason is that I work for a US company and I want to see the faces of the right wing zealots on the Weds stand-up call

I would if time zones were different, but it will be a long way into the morning before any significant results (or significantly close results) emerge.

Better to get a decent sleep ready for whatever madness happens tomorrow.

My understanding is that we will know a lot more earlier this time. Pennsylvania & Georgia will count early ballots in the 1st hr after polls close, as opposed to last time in the Covid era. I’m going to stay up until 1 & reckon we will know a lot by then.

early ballots in the 1st hr after polls close

Problem is that early ballots won't be representative of all the other ballots, so it won't be possible to extrapolate too much from that.

Although regardless of any votes actually being counted, it will be interesting to see how long it takes Trump to declare himself the winner. That might well happen overnight.

Given that it took several days/weeks to get a definitive result last time, I'll save my sleepless nights just in case Trump wins.

Though a masochistic part of me is tempted to watch the "experts" waffling and extrapolating a national result from the news just in from Doohickey, West Virginia.

I’m just about to start a conversion back to Longhaul flying, with my first flights in January. As it stands I’m due to fly into Atlanta on 7 Jan - will the civil war have just started??? ?

A CNN piece I just watched on YT stated some areas are 80% early ballots, so actually we might know quite a bit….

I'd rather staple my cock to the Aberdeen express.

I'll be in bed cheers.

If its a clear win either way we may know early; 1 am ish

but if the polls are right and its super tight then it could be days or weeks

Its my birthday today and is it too much to ask that the orange quarterwit rapist shitbag definitively gets the boot??!

I plan to get an early one and see what tomorrow brings (thats what I plan anyway)

Given that it took several days/weeks to get a definitive result last time

Yeah I think staying up for the count would be a good opportunity to try for the world record in staying awake.  From memory its about 18 days (aside from the medical condition which results in death).

UK elections are bad enough when we actually get results quickly and its normally conclusive early morning.

relapsed_mandalorian
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I’d rather staple my cock to the Aberdeen express.

I’ll be in bed cheers.

That's a hard (!) no from me, puncture hazard.

Yes I’m planning 6 days of total sleep deprivation just to make sure I’m there at the precise second that some random newsreader makes the statement that is subsequently agreed to be “when the election was called”.

If it was going to be 3 or 4am at latest I might consider it, but if it’s possibly going to be some time in the middle of next week? Lol.

Nope, I'll very briefly check the news the next day, but that's it. I have no influence on proceedings.

As many/all of Trumps lawsuits, if he loses, will be thrown out... Unless they are allowed in the Supreme court, I reckon there's a good chance we'll have an idea who's won by the early hours... pending a military uprising of course.  😉

You'll be able to tell how it is going by the wild accusations of fraud from the trump camp. The more outrageous they get, the more he will be on track to lose.

I am staying up until 2am to watch the funfair  if I can stay awake that is.

I just hope I don't become grumpy in the morning.

p.s. Once I stay up late watching something and only slept for 2 hour. The following day I was doing a presentation and I struggled to remember what to say.

Nope. Whatever will happen will happen whether i get a good nights sleep or not.....

This feels extremely important, as much as the Referendum back on 2016

Far more so? The brexit ref was us shooting ourselves in the foot and no-one else much affected. The US vote may affect Ukraine and more of Eastern Europe, then Taiwan, and so on. And I truly hope enough Americans realise that and vote with that in mind.

given I have zero influence in it and so am just along for the ride, I’ll be off to kip.

This. Enough to stress over without being tired.

Go Kamla.

I am working until 1:30am anyway so I'll probaly watch the news until 3is to see how things look.

There's an election?

I'll just tune in for the following civil war - should be entertaining.

There’s an election?

Feels like a 'world' election ...

The brexit ref was us shooting ourselves in the foot and no-one else much affected.

Depends whether you consider a destabilised and distracted UK and Europe were part of Putin’s calculations when it came to having a go at capturing Kyiv by force, and subverting democracy in Tbilisi.

I’ll be getting up early tomorrow to catch up on things. The early results will just put me on edge, especially if they put Trump’s team into full disinformation and “feels like a win, don’t let them steal it” mode.

I'm stuck on Avanti West Coast until 10pm tonight, so I will idly refresh a couple of news channels.

I thought it took a couple of days for the result to be declared?

I also have no influence, so not much point in investing too much into this.

The whole thing is just filling me with such a feeling of dread that I just can't face reading or seeing any more about it. I'm hiding behind the sofa until it's over.

I'll keep the radio on whilst i sleep but i'll probably i'll get a nightmare if the words win/trump are combined.

Me staying awake won't alter anything so I'll be off to bed.

I'm sure I'll open up the news from time to time during the night.  I have zero influence on the outcome but if I'm awake then why not

I've just come off a call with three Americans and they would like to have our time zone so that they could have a decent sleep and digest the news when they wake up

Is it, in any way, possible that we get a draw? Like no overall winner?

I only just considered that so I'm sure there's an answer

Is it, in any way, possible that we get a draw? Like no overall winner?

I only just considered that so I’m sure there’s an answer

I'd support a fight to the death. My money is on Harris winning by a heart attack in the second round.

^^ I dunno, Trump could be handy with his foot spurs.

Like a fighting cock.

I’d support a fight to the death.

Be careful what you wish for. I was on a call to a colleague in the US earlier. I jokingly suggested that he shouldn't watch the film Civil War in the next couple of days but I don't think he thought it was funny.

I’d rather staple my cock to the Aberdeen express.

I was going to suggest slamming it in a drawer but your version suggests greater strength of feeling.

Likewise I'll be in bed, I have work and tbh even though I have an abundance of annual leave to take I won't be wasting it on that shit show.

I'll be staying up as late as I can. Whilst we won't 'know' who's definitively won, by the early hours we should have a pretty good idea. Just loaded up the first coffee. Gonna be a looooooong night

I will sleep easy, I now think Harris will win comfortably, but it won't stop Trump claiming it was stolen, and then we will see how many lackeys he still has embedded in Government willing to do his biding.

God no. I prefer my nightmares to be when I'm asleep, not when I'm awake and watching TV.

Working off Louisiana, and on watch until midnight local time.

I'll try not to get distracted, but that's inevitable...

Is it, in any way, possible that we get a draw?

Mathematically, with 538 electoral college votes, it could be split 50/50 but I don't know if there's a permutation of states that could result in that, but even if there was, with so many absolute certainties around most states, the remaining swing states don't offer a route to a draw

@seadog101
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Working off Louisiana, and on watch until midnight local time.

I’ll try not to get distracted, but that’s inevitable…

Just being nosy, you on one of the rigs or support vessels?

@Poopscoop

Drillship.

Currently getting ready to run away from yet another hurricane... both meteorological and political

seadog101
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Drillship.

Currently getting ready to run away from yet another hurricane… both meteorological and political

I have to pinch myself occasionally to remind me of what a miracle the 'net is. I'm here in the UK just casually chatting to someone on a ship in the gulf of Mexico.

Good luck evading the hurricane!

Kamala would obliterate Trump in a fight to the death. He's a fat old man with child's hands.

Currently listening to last night's Rogan podcast with Elon Musk, and it's worrying me that the collective consciousness of political rhetoric in the US is even worse than we think. The conversation so far is a constant stream of misinformation yet all on the subject of fighting misinformation. It's horrendous,  and drifting well into Tucker Carlson territory, except this man could soon be one of the most powerful on earth.

After that I'll listen to the Rest is Politics live stream for a bit, then I'm going to bed. I'm not going to torture myself while I could be sleeping.

It’s horrendous, and drifting well into Tucker Carlson territory,

In order to quiet my mind and get to sleep, I have to put on a sleep mask with headphones built in and listen to a podcast. Puts me to sleep in 10 minutes and I'll generally sleep until my alarm

In recent months, when the podcast I started finished, Spotify would start playing random ones.

Several times I've been woken up in the middle of the night thinking wtf is this in my head, and discovered it's playing Tucker Carlson. Unfortunately Spotify doesn't allow you to block podcasts so you're at the mercy of their algorithm.

His podcast is so batshit crazy it actually wakes me up

I file the US elections under "I can't influence it so don't I get hung up on it"

@BoardinBob what Spotify does have is a sleep timer that can stop play at the end of the podcast you've selected.

There's really no need to torture yourself like that.

^not all heroes wear capes!

I think polls close around 9am my time so I'll have things on in the background most likely and be feeding key things to my mate in LA.

I'm watching rest is politics YouTube livestream so far and will stick with it. And stay up for north Caroline result?

TRIP stream is good. With marina Hyde et al

No Vox pops with trump freaks unlike mainstream media

Fair play to Channel Four - apparently they have Stormy Daniels as a guest!  Unfortunately Johnson as well.

not techie enough for an eyemask with built in podcasts, i rely on R5 from an am radio through one earphone.

i suspect election night is a bit like the golf, tennis etc.... if i wake up, i will be going back to sleep in silence

I’ve got a horrible 23rd June 2016 sense of foreboding about all this so I’m going to pretend it’s not happening right up until the point where it inevitably does

WWE politics from another country no chance. Our brand of old man moral outrage, subterfuge and distraction is bad enough!

Fair play to Channel Four – apparently they have Stormy Daniels as a guest!  Unfortunately Johnson as well

Jeremy Vine as well, turned it off and going to bed to read a book

The Rest is Politics have a livestream on YouTube if you want something alternative

And it's very good .

Yeah watching TRIP and it's great. The news channels tend to regurgitate the same chat over and over again while there's nothing to report so tend to get boring but the TRIP conversation is far more varied and interesting

TRIP here too. C4 team is dreadful. Who on earth put that together wants shooting. Spicer just spreading Fake Trumpisms, Johnson with his book in his hands, both drowning out the quiet D in the middle.

I think I'll stay up til the first few big polls close around 12:30 - then off to bed because not much will happen overnight I think

I’m with you. If it gets interesting I’m prepared…..

i'd rather drive screws into my eyes

Fair play to Channel Four – apparently they have Stormy Daniels as a guest! Unfortunately Johnson as well.

Though you never know - some salacious stories from the green room in tomorrow's papers.........

Shades of Major and Curry there - need some mind bleach!!

dantsw13

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I’m with you. If it gets interesting I’m prepared…..

Masive tray of cookies with ironic protein shake bottle in the background.. I like it!

Channel 4 was great when Emily maitlis had a huge go at BJ over his trumpian behaviour. He was visibly shook

I’m stuck on Avanti West Coast until 10pm tonight, so I will idly refresh a couple of news channels.

Yeah based on this thread I'd have gone the west coast line too - the Aberdeen Express sounds terrifying!

I love that Pittsburgh has had to drag staff in from other departments...

Including Parks and Recreation. 🙂

Who’s staying up as the results come in?

Good God no! Not a chance. The thought of Dementia Don getting another shot at cosplaying President of the United States is frankly terrifying, but there’s bugger all I can do about it, and it’ll be all over my Flipboard news feeds tomorrow, unless I ignore all those, go out somewhere during the day and find out at tea time on the national news.

the Aberdeen Express sounds terrifying!

I'm enjoying watching the Aberdeen Express achieve legendary status before my very eyes.  I remember when these fields were all filled with frozen sausages....

Well, as of 1.07am it's looking like Harris hasn't done as well amongst women voters and Latinos as the Dems had hoped. Ouch.

The US coverage has much more ongoin granular analysis than BBC.  ABC are on YouTube and I'm switching between the 2.

I'm following it here:

https://decisiondeskhq.com/results/2024/General/President/

Too early to know much, if Trump loses North Carolina, it will be hard for him to win. If Harris loses Pennsylvania, it will be hard for her to win. Having an early lead doesn't mean much because rural counties (which favour Trump) are often reported much faster than cities (which favour Harris and have much larger populations).

NYT have called for Trump which is... optimistic at this point but they could still be right of course.

Going to have to head up at 3am but I'm not getting a good vibe at the moment.

Nah, tat's not right, they're saying "leans Trump" with 67% likelihood, which isn't nothing but it's far from calling it. Basically saying that they think he'll win nc and ga which makes a democrat win difficult