Election Day Chatter

[pixy0stix]

A place to discuss whatever today.

[aurora]

I woke up at 5:15 today (unplanned and early for me) so decided to come in to work early. I figure I won't get anything done this evening once the polls start closing so I might as well do it now.

[pixy0stix]

I WFH today, so I'm currently debating turning on the news and letting that be my background noise today, or whether I should just consume print news today.

[lust2hart]

I obviously can’t wear candidate merch at the polls today, but I’m sporting my pearls!

[heygrey]

Today is one of those days I’m very thankful to live on the west coast. We’ll start to hear results from the east just after I get home from work.

[atarianna]

Our polling location is awful so I typically try to vote early at the board of elections. This year it was jam packed each day I tried, so I ended up voting today.

Our location is awful because the rules state you can’t have election signs/people within 100ft of the location however, the parking lot is 200+ feet away from the front doors so the people literally block your entry into the church and accost you on your way in. It’s BS.

We live in a very red area and today as we are walking up this group stops us and say “do you want a republican pamphlet on how to vote?” We say no. They are soooo caught off guard and then the guy say “a democrat one then?” And tried to hand us the same pamphlet. We say no again and then he looks frustrated and says “how about an independent one?” And tries to give it to us a third time. DUDE get the hint.

As we walk in my H (who is an independent) looks at me and says “I actually would have been interested in the independent one”. My eyeballs nearly fell out of my head as I said “they were all republican pamphlets…..” which he didn’t realize. Ugh. I hate how they do this every single election.

[lilypad1126]

I WFH so for the last week I've been cycling through my political tshirts when I don't have external meetings (and even then, I just throw on a sweater to cover the logo). Today is rainbows and #vote.

I guess I'm glad I have a bunch of meetings today, but whoever scheduled the 8:30am meeting TOMORROW is on my shit list. I hope they don't expect me to be functional after what I'm sure is going to be a late night tonight.

[candreco]

Work is busy and stressful today, which is a great distraction from the election I guess? Heading in for a meeting later and of course can't wear candidate gear as a fed employee, but I'm wearing a BRIGHT blue dress. The Rs outside my polling location definitely got the message and barely bothered trying to engage with me on my way in.

[Tacocat]

I’m wearing my RBG with rainbows shirt today at work under my sweater 😊

[sonrisa]

I woke up angry at the half the country who support the toxic tangerine asshole, his noxious side kick, Project 2025, the cartoon level malevolent billionaires and The basket of deplorable s that got us here.

I’m trying to simmer down enough I can hold civil conversations with people about mundane things. We have family dentist appointments this morning and I don’t want to be wondering if the dentist is supporting our teeth while undermining our lives.

[pixy0stix]

I saved my "I voted" sticker for today even though no one is going to see it.

[Mushe]

I saw a prediction posted here yesterday, but can’t find the thread. Does anyone remember the person whose prediction it was? I remember something like Nevin Campbell but google doesn’t agree.

It was 51/46 popular vote and 319/219 electoral college.

[kellady]

We voted last week and dropped ballot off at the clerk’s office.  Going to the grocery store today to buy ingredients to bake Gwen Walz great grandma ginger snap cookies (available with a donation, lol) to eat while I sit here nervously.  

@@ adult DD voted this morning and said there was no line at the polls.  I’m not sure what to think of that.  

[babsbunny]

Happy 8 year CE&P anniversary to me. I came here for the lead up to the 2016 election and I don't think I could have gotten through those 4 years without y'all. Hoping for much better news tonight.

[bcv513]

I saw on TikTok that today is considered "airport lounge rules." So calories don't count, alcohol at 10AM is acceptable, etc. I'm going with that

[eddy]

Nov 5, 2024 9:53:02 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I saved my "I voted" sticker for today even though no one is going to see it.

Proudly wearing mine as I WFH lol!

[Velar Fricative]

The clock change is still messing with me. I was dead asleep by like 8:45 last night. I hope I can pull it together tonight.

H will go vote this afternoon, I am dying to know what his experience is like since I already voted early. We had the highest % of registered voters vote among the NYC boroughs (26%), and I sensed many were MAGAs. So if he says it’s crazy at the precinct today, that will make me feel a bit more at ease even if the borough doesn’t turn blue (it won’t, but I want to see a better showing for us).

We have some wildfire smoke coming from NJ today and of course the local FB group is making jokes about it being from Democrats burning Republican mail in ballots. It seems like MAGAs have suddenly pivoted to believing that they are the ones who mostly vote with mail in ballots. I guess whatever supports their crazy thoughts…

I don’t know what to make over NOT feeling a pit in my stomach today. Either I’m trying to steel myself for something terrible or I feel at ease that Harris has this in the bag. I have no idea.

[anlo]

I’ve been gone a long time but I still lurk occasionally. I keep swinging from optimism to complete anxiety (know I’m not alone there). LETS GO KAMALA!

[cville]

I'm at work and have lots of meetings. I almost wore my hair half up half down and then remembered that's how I wore it on election day in 2016, so I've gone high ponytail.

Also in blue head to toe.

[Velar Fricative]

Nov 5, 2024 10:08:52 GMT -5 cville said:

I'm at work and have lots of meetings. I almost wore my hair half up half down and then remembered that's how I wore it on election day in 2016, so I've gone high ponytail.

Also in blue head to toe.

Wow I just realized I’m wearing a blue shirt at work and I totally didn’t do that on purpose lol.

[eb777888]

Nov 5, 2024 10:08:52 GMT -5 cville said:

I'm at work and have lots of meetings. I almost wore my hair half up half down and then remembered that's how I wore it on election day in 2016, so I've gone high ponytail.

Also in blue head to toe.

I am decidedly definitely NOT buying a bottle of champagne like I did in 2016 because I don't want to jinx anything. I thought I was the only one being superstitious about the things I did in  2016 vs 2024, but apparently there's a lot of us, lol. 

[candreco]

Nov 5, 2024 9:52:04 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

I woke up angry at the half the country who support the toxic tangerine asshole, his noxious side kick, Project 2025, the cartoon level malevolent billionaires and The basket of deplorable s that got us here.

I’m trying to simmer down enough I can hold civil conversations with people about mundane things. We have family dentist appointments this morning and I don’t want to be wondering if the dentist is supporting our teeth while undermining our lives.

Yeah, there's definitely some of that. HowTF is this election this close? Who are these people who are just so bigoted? selfish? dumb? and just going about their lives like there's not something wrong with them?

I have to believe that Harris is going to win, but it's hard to accept that there are that many terrible people out there.

[rubytue]

I’m going after lunch. My friend voted this morning (his first time as a citizen) and reported no lines.

[jinkies]

It was about a 10 minute wait to vote at my polling place. There were a lot of people dressed in blue, and I'm absolutely reading into that.

There were also a couple people in red MAGA hats, which, besides being embarrassed for them, I didn't think was allowed?

[shopgirl07]

I’m in line now. It’s busy but not nearly as bad as it was in 2020. I only got 2 hours sleep and am nauseous. Just hoping for the best over here. Nauseously optimistic as they say.

[taratru]

I'm still hesitant to feel hopeful, even 8 years later, but I've got my pearls and Chucks on.

I really hope we don't fuck this up.

[wawa]

I really enjoyed seeing the signals in people's clothes this morning. Pearls and chucks on the lady in front of me in line, a green and pink sweater on one of the election judges...
Not that the green and pink is subtle...though I guess people who don't pay attention have no idea, so it still does the job.
I wore blue personally, wish I had thought to put my chucks on.

[Bad Dingo]

I'm wearing all cream (I don't actually own anything white) with my Kamala shirt under my sweater. I've been stress eating through meetings, Caramellos were the first to go.

[glitzy07]

Wore a blue shirt and my blue Allbird shoes to vote this morning instead of my usual WFH uniform of all black everything.

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My kids came with me because our polling place is their school. The poll workers were excited to see the "future voters." Then my 8yo grabbed a pen and doodled in the margins of my ballot. I was scared it would be voided, so I went up and asked for a new ballot to be 100% certain my vote was counted.
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[fernweh]

Nov 5, 2024 10:41:16 GMT -5 wawa said:

I really enjoyed seeing the signals in people's clothes this morning. Pearls and chucks on the lady in front of me in line, a green and pink sweater on one of the election judges...
Not that the green and pink is subtle...though I guess people who don't pay attention have no idea, so it still does the job.
I wore blue personally, wish I had thought to put my chucks on.

I think the pink and green is subtle. If not for this place I would have no idea what it was signaling.