I don’t know why I do this to myself, but I can’t pull myself away from watching the election returns.
I know it’s still way too early to call the election at this point (10:30 pm), but I am still feeling quite anxious.
And the different way votes are coming in from the various states is making it quite difficult to predict an outcome even when a good percentage of the votes are in.
So my guess is that I’ll be going to bed before there is a clear winner.
I’m also guessing that I’ll be checking my phone throughout the night.
If I’m this nervous, I can’t imagine what it is like for the two candidates…
*image from BBC
There is still hope…but yes, nerve wracking
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yes, but it’s good to know the sun will still come up tomorrow 🙂
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Yeah…
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I was shocked four years ago, which isn’t close to how I’m feeling right now. I understand that there is a certain plus/minus factor with polls, but many people must not have told the truth. I find that disturbing. I know Biden wasn’t a great candidate, but I feel like I’ve been watching a different movie than most people.
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I feel the same way as you; very disappointing…
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I’m still up watching too! Very nerve racking and I should just shut it off!!
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yes, same here…
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My parents are glued to the TV watching the election results come in.
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I think I watched TV from 6 at night until 2 in the morning…
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Fingers crossed that you hear the news/outcome you are wanting., Jim…I keep looking at the stats but also reading about what is planned if the votes don’t go the right way ..Disappointing hearing some of the comments …
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I feel your pain, my friend. I stayed up as long as I dared and slept horribly wondering what the outcome would be. I am ready for this to be over, but also worry about our future if we find ourselves so divided as a nation. And, in the end, there is still Covid to deal with, regardless of who wins. Stay strong and keep up the faith!
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what an interseting turn of events today; will be interesting to see how it ends…
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I went to bed too, and know it will take a while for mail in votes to be counted in key states
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and how right you were! way to go Michigan!
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I’m really proud
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not sure I’ll be able to say the same for PA…
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Everything’s in play
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I like your optimism!
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I’m watching the stats, you’d be proud of me, but then there’s the human factor….)
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stats can be fun 🙂
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I felt sick with what I saw on TV. I can’t imagine what it’s like for you and your compatriots. If the ‘most powerful man in the world’ behaves like this, what chance is there for the rest of us?
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well it’s looking a bit better now…
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Are you sure? I’m still not certain.
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I feel better than I did Tuesday night, but nothing is certain…
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I guess you’re feeling quite a bit better now. 🙂
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yes we are!
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Whatever the outcome, i’ve learned to keep my expectations very low.
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that seems like the best way to manage things…
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Stop checking the stats. I think Biden has it, but I also think this election will be decided in court. Everyone will just have to take a deep breath and wait it out.
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nice – it looks like you were way ahead of the pundits in calling it in Biden’s favor. But going to court seems to be Trump’s way of handling a lot of things…
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Court or not, it looks like it may be a squeaker in Pennsylvania.
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and it looks like the results in PA may not matter…
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No. All Biden needs is Nevada. Though that may be a squeaker also.
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Yes, Nevada seems closer than I am guessing the Biden team thought it would be…
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In one college library where I worked, two library assistants (who were neighbours) always took the day after a UK election as annual leave. They would sit up all night with bottles of beer, as if it were a football match, following the results coming in.
I was working in Islington the year Tony Blair’s Labour party was elected. The day results were confirmed, you’d have been justified in thinking it was the Second Coming. (He lived in Islington then.)
I kept my mouth shut.
I’m not a political follower, but Blair’s supercillious, patronising tone had alienated me when I first saw him interviewed as Shadow Business Secretary before his rise to fame. I never saw any reason to change my opinion.
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How true, the first time I saw Tony Blair I thought he was slimy!
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seems like there’s a couple of anti-Blair folks here… 🙂
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that sounds like a fun way to watch an election. I did not know Blair was from Islington; I rremember visitng there when we were living in London – seemed like a very nice neighborhood. I think your decision to stay queit was the right move, sometimes it just isn’t worth it…
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The Bradley effect rises again.
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good analogy…
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The rest of the world is also waiting, watching, and hoping…
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I doubt the rest of the world cares what happens. Your country has spent four years in malicious, back biting, hate filled rhetoric. Your states don’t apparently know how to capably run elections and your politicians and public don’t know how to lose with good grace. Your country has a supremely biased and lying media system – on both the left and right. You don’t know what you don’t know. You only know what your are being fed in your bubble.
The only thing the world might hope for is that someday your country figures out how to be a united country in fact, rather than just in name.
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it will be nice if we can get back on the path to living up to our ideals…
and based on some comments on my blog and headlines I’ve seen from newspapers around the world, it seems like many people outside the U.S. do care about the election…
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it’s looking better now than it did 18 hours ago…
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Not over yet, though, but it is indeed looking better than when I woke up today.
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yes, I’ve become cautiously optimistic…
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We’re all glad this only happens every four years! I think there will be two or three sleeps before we know the final result.
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I think you’re right, Janet…
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It’s not yet 6am where I live and I’ve just checked…. Biden needs 6 more electoral votes and they’re still not calling it!
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I guess they want to be 100% sure before they call such a divisive election…
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The best way to calm nerves during election night.was to sleep through it in an anesthesia fog. 🙂 I had outpatient surgery and anesthesia knocks me out! I am coming more out of the fog today.
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I hope the surgery went well! That was a nice way to spend a difficult election night; it’s much more enjoyable now…
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It did, thanks! Now its just me being patient with my body as it heals!
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sounds like meditation time…
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I have plenty of time now to do it! 🙂
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I got no political interest so sleeping soundly 😁
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I’m jealous!
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