Where were you on election night 2000?

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

I was at my school monitoring the election on the internet

[kanrok]

1. On the floor in front of my TV

[Longhorn]

4. Me, too! I was so excited when they called Florida for Gore!

Of course, it went downhill from there! :(

[kanrok]

7. Gawd...don't remind me

I was high-fiving my stunned wife. When I saw DOuchebag and his asshat family sitting there questioning Florida, I had a sick feeling in my stomach.

[liberalmuse]

2. Watching 'The Daily Show'.

Totally psyched when Florida went for Gore, and stunned when it was taken away. Went to bed devastated.

[Technowitch]

3. Home, watching with disbelief as an election was stolen

This time I'll be home, too, watching with hope and optimism, as we take our country back from these corrupt fascist thugs.

[kaitykaity]

5. I was at home watching. After they called Florida for Gore,

I went to the store thinking it was over, this was
great, good news, yahoo.

Then I got out of the store and got in the car and
turned on the radio and heard they had pulled Florida
from the Gore column. (I remember this like it was
yesterday.)

I've been a fanatic for this shit ever since.

On edit: I never went to bed that night. I was awake when
they called the whole banana for Bush, and then when they
pulled Florida back from Bush.

I called my Mom at 4 in the morning to tell her, and
she hadn't been to bed either.

[RoyGBiv]

6. In front of the television ...

With my laptop, scribbling notes and thoughts. The election was the subject of a paper I was doing for a class at the time. By the time I finally went to bed, I'd totally changed my thesis.

[AlamoDemoc]

8. I was glued to the television set.....

waiting a victory party

[eyepaddle]

9. On the Ice

Down at McMurdo station Antarctica, getting a few rather sketchy updates from my boss--he was a total Gore supporter, but he called it right almost from the start. I couldn't believe Shrub won. When I came back to the States and gradually found out the missing details, well, let's just say I felt the same burn you guys did, just a few months later.

We get the bastards this time.

[Sparkly]

10. My husband and I stayed up all night

Hadn't done that since college. We went to bed after they called it for the Chimp, and lay there with the TV on waiting for Gore's concession speech. When the news came about Florida, we sat bolt upright -- and then we couldn't sleep. Morning came and we made coffee. It was horrible!!!

[ibegurpard]

11. Benson Hotel in Portland, OR

with the Oregon House Democrats. Went out for a cigarette and while we were out there someone coming in said that they had taken back the Florida call for Gore. It all went downhill from there.

[Zen Democrat]

12. Electrical storm took out electricity. Listened on a battery radio.

It was so eerie. Lying in bed with a candle burning and hearing about all the insanity going on in Florida late, late, late into the night.

[RevCheesehead]

13. At my parent's home the day before my mom's surgery...

flew in from North Carolina, and basically stayed up most of the night watching Tom Brokaw make an idiot of himself.

I figured, what the hell, I can doze at the hospital waiting room, but everyone was watching the mess of Florida unravel. Obviously, I didn't sleep much.

This was in Madison, WI - and people were FURIOUS! That's why I think the voter turnout here will be exceptionally high (WI usually brings out 50% or more) - now, some are saying we might see 65-70% turnout.

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

14. I can't see Wisconsin going for bush

at least I HOPE not:shrug:

[endnote]

15. In my bedroom watching the race on TV.

[MuseRider]

16. Rehearsal and it was tough.

We were playing pieces that had extra instruments, actually I think it was Bolero. When the sax player came in he looked at me, gave me the thumbs up and said, Gore got Florida. We were so excited. During our break I called my husband and he told me that it was different, they had changed to Bush*. It was very tense in there because most of us were pulling hard for Gore. I stayed up most of the night watching and did not go far from CNN until it was decided.

[barackmyworld]

17. at home making an untruthful statement...

"Mom, I'm not going to sleep until I KNOW who the President is!!!"

[DoYouEverWonder]

18. In a bar called Puckers

in Gatlinburg, TN with an elderly Republican gentleman from SD.

It was a strange night to say the least but we actually had a very good time.

[Johnny 99]

19. Watching CBS at home

Watching Dan Rather progressively become more and more Texan and unable to form a cogent simil at about midnight.

[derbstyron]

20. I broke up with my girlfriend that day!

And then I went home and watched the shrub win (well, sort of). What a horrible day. We are still good friends though. We voted early last week together (for Kerry of course).

BTW I'm still...single. Any women in the Tampa Bay area? ;)
Anyone?
Anyone?

[chefgirl]

21. I was at home

I had worked all day, then voted on my way home, and that night I was trying to stay awake as long as I could to see election returns.

After listening to that douchebag, Russert, yammering about Florida, Florida, Florida for days, and after seeing the chimp telling some reporter that he wasn't sure Florida was going to Gore, I was really beginning to get upset.

Then I heard ABC (I think) call Florida for Gore, and all my anxiety melted away and I went to sleep feeling very peaceful.

Imagine my shock when I woke up the next morning to hear that Florida had been called for dickhead.

That was the last easy night's sleep I've had for 4 years.

-chef-

[dennis4868]

22. Spending the night with my 2 week old baby boy.....

[doubleplusgood]

23. at the Schnitz, in Portland, OR

...listening to a live performance by The Capitol Steps. Knowing it was going to be close and expecting Gore to lose (based on all the BS polls, as we now know), I had a hard time enjoying the very funny stuff from the Steps.

[cally]

24. Watching at the county Dem HQ

I had turned in my GOTV lists and was watching with other volunteers. When I heard Gore had won Florida, I headed home. Shocked and dismayed when I came home and heard/saw that Florida was not for Gore.

[leftofthedial]

25. Palo Alto CA

on a business trip

a business that went downhill fast after that.

[InvisibleTouch]

26. Home watching TV....

Like others have said, I was ecstatic when Florida was called for Gore, then horrified when it was pulled back. Kept bouncing back and forth between the channels that still showed a blue Florida (happy pic) and a gray/undecided Florida (genuinely frightening pic). I felt the course of history shifting into something monsterously wrong that night, the universe wrenched into some dark alternate reality that should never have been. I've been trying to struggle out of it ever since. Lots of bad things have happened in these past 4 years, in the world and in my own life. Starting this past summer, finally, I started to feel the tide beginning to turn; for the first time in my life I've seen people punished for their crimes who deserved to be punished, started to sense the dark veil lifting a bit. If the trend continues, Kerry will win on Tuesday, and set history back on its proper course. I don't like to think about election night 2000, but maybe it's good to look back to where we've been, and compare it to where we're going.