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Thank you to everyone who got out the vote. [1]
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Date: 2022-11-12
So this is what I said five days ago about what I would do on Election Night:
So. What I did in 2020 was making sure I ate dinner right after work WITHOUT LOOKING AT A THING. In that year my husband wasn’t working, so I literally had to go to the dining room table and eat my sandwich (I'd brought them home) while telling him I did NOT want to hear about what was happening. He was good about that; I ate dinner and then got on Daily Kos… staying up until 1:30 when I read that Wisconsin was likely to go to Biden. (This was from a Kos member, not the media.)
This year my husband does have a job, so I'm picking him up and taking him to a local Mexican place for dinner, all the while avoiding looking at my phone. When you're diabetic, you have to have a meal no matter what, and I don't want all the sturm und drang on Kos to make me lose my appetite. Which it will.
Anyway, my guidelines are:
1) Check the status of AZ-Sen and NH-Sen. If they're good, so far so good.
2) Not pay attention to House losses. It is what it is.
3) Ignore anyone who screams about a) Dobbs being a “losing issue” or b) Fetterman’s debate performance.
4) Ignore the initial dark red mirage of PA-Sen and NV-Sen ... if there IS one. (I think we're selling both of those really short.) I know there will be posters here who won't ignore that, so ignore those people too. To be honest, I'm going to find it as unsettling as I did in 2020, so this is going to be the hardest way to “zen" myself.
5) Check to see GA-Sen isn't insanely bad, which I don't think it will be. If it ends with a runoff, the night is over for me.
6) Make sure I post in all the successful “gain" threads big THANK YOUs to those who got out the vote and helped to make the success happen. Make sure I post in even the “unsuccessful" races a thank you to everyone who tried hard.
7) Once it's bedtime, take 15 mg of melatonin.
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