Stuff to do until the polls close, besides fret
Over on Making Light, Patrick has a Voting-and-nervous-energy thread. This is sort of mine.
Patrick also posted in the "Sidelights" section a link to the "Yes we can (hold babies)" blog ("It's like Cute Overload crossed with Daily Kos"). For some reason :-) this was my favorite picture there:
The little girl is Obama's youngest daughter.
This may become the wallpaper on my home computer!
I was wondering when the polls close in different states (I knew about the polls here in our tri-state area) and found this map:
from a blog called Swing State Project.
Electoral-Vote.com also has a list, but not a map, of the poll-closing times.
Boy, back before the Internet it would have taken me a *long* time to find that!
I also found an outline map of the U.S. (from the Perry-Casteneda map collection at the University of Texas, but there are several other places online with them) so I can color the map in as the results are announced. This has been an election-night tradition with me for awhile. When Bill Clinton was elected in 1992 (First "Baby-Boomer" president! Yay us!)* some of the TV networks were using red for Democrats and blue for Republicans, but I decided to use blue for Democrats since blue is my favorite color. And at one point I got confused and colored some state (IIRC it was Nebraska ["There's the Springsteen thing again!" some of you are thinking], or maybe Kansas; one of the biggish ones in the middle) the wrong color because I got my color schemes confused, so I had to re-color it and it ended up looking purple. I'm glad that when the party/color thing got standardized -- I think this happened after the 2000 election, the one Al Gore "lost" -- they adopted my scheme, though I suspect some blue-loving Republicans (my mom was one) might not be so happy about it.
*Bill Clinton is closer in age to me than 3 of my five siblings are; I thought this was really neat. Obama is nearly 5 years younger than my youngest sibling. (Technically he's a Boomer, too, though he falls near the cutoff.) McCain is about 6 years older than my oldest sibling.
Patrick also posted in the "Sidelights" section a link to the "Yes we can (hold babies)" blog ("It's like Cute Overload crossed with Daily Kos"). For some reason :-) this was my favorite picture there:
The little girl is Obama's youngest daughter.
This may become the wallpaper on my home computer!
I was wondering when the polls close in different states (I knew about the polls here in our tri-state area) and found this map:
from a blog called Swing State Project.
Electoral-Vote.com also has a list, but not a map, of the poll-closing times.
Boy, back before the Internet it would have taken me a *long* time to find that!
I also found an outline map of the U.S. (from the Perry-Casteneda map collection at the University of Texas, but there are several other places online with them) so I can color the map in as the results are announced. This has been an election-night tradition with me for awhile. When Bill Clinton was elected in 1992 (First "Baby-Boomer" president! Yay us!)* some of the TV networks were using red for Democrats and blue for Republicans, but I decided to use blue for Democrats since blue is my favorite color. And at one point I got confused and colored some state (IIRC it was Nebraska ["There's the Springsteen thing again!" some of you are thinking], or maybe Kansas; one of the biggish ones in the middle) the wrong color because I got my color schemes confused, so I had to re-color it and it ended up looking purple. I'm glad that when the party/color thing got standardized -- I think this happened after the 2000 election, the one Al Gore "lost" -- they adopted my scheme, though I suspect some blue-loving Republicans (my mom was one) might not be so happy about it.
*Bill Clinton is closer in age to me than 3 of my five siblings are; I thought this was really neat. Obama is nearly 5 years younger than my youngest sibling. (Technically he's a Boomer, too, though he falls near the cutoff.) McCain is about 6 years older than my oldest sibling.