LOL! Funny how these elections are becoming "watching party sports". Our family had a great time sitting up and watching last night (of course the eventuality of the outcome helped the mood). We had our almost 10-year old daughter keeping up with the electoral count by coloring in her own map of the States. She also went with my wife to vote. We home school so this was a brilliantly played out opportunity to teach her how this works.

I kind of wish it would wind up 269 to 269 so we could show her how it plays in the House of Reps. If it had, ironically enough, and Texas had not gerrymandered its districts for this election, the Dems would have retained a majority of the Reps, and Bush would have lost Texas in a House vote.

>-Beer and pizza from the place down the street, to drink/eat while watching the returns: 20 bucks
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>-New wide-screen TV to watch the returns: couple hundred bucks
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>-More beer and pizza because it's gonna be a long night: another 20 bucks
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>-calling your wireless provider to increase your minutes so that you can talk to your family and friends about who's gonna win: 20 bucks
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>- Turning off all the lights and torturing your two cats by flashing a laser pen all around house...because at 1 AM, anything is better than hearing Dan Rather describe for the hundredth time how many states Kerry needs to win to have a chance: priceless
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>For everything else, there's MasterCard