After surfing the web, I have compiled these rules for a serious Election Night Drinking Game. Use some, or use them all - the choice is yours!!! Enjoy.

Election Night Drink Game

• Every time the term “battleground state” is uttered, take a drink.
• Every time young voters and Obama are referenced in the same breath, take a drink.
• Every time McCain and Bush are referenced in the same breath, take a drink.
• Every time John King thinks he’s John Madden trying to illustrate something on his CNN magical board, take a drink.
• Every time a pundit says “The race was really over when …” or some variation, take two drinks.
• Every time a battleground state is called for one candidate or the other, the first person to yell “Joe Sixpack” gets to distribute six drinks among as many people as they would like. If you’re drinking alone, you might as well drain your drink. It’s going to be a long, lonely night.

• Every time someone says “the polls have just closed…” the first person to properly name a state the polls closed in gets to assign a drink to one other person.

• Maybe take a drink every time a live feed is shown from a polling place in Ohio or Pennsylvania.

• Every time you hear, “now this is just based on early returns, but we feel confident we can call {state X} for {candidate.}”.

• Take a drink every time the phrase “the math” is used. As in: “From here, the math gets hard for John McCain” or “The math in North Carolina gets hard for Barack Obama…“
• take a drink everytime Obama’s race, McCain’s age, Palin’s hotness or Biden’s gaffing is mentioned

Break into Teams and drink accordingly:

Obama

If you think Obama is going to win, slug one down - dare we be so coarse in the Wine section? - every time you hear someone (pundit/host, etc.) say the words:

– Transformational
– Landslide
– First African American
– Youth vote
– Axelrod
– Working class
– Filibuster-proof
– Magic map (CNN only)
– White voters
– Irregularities
– New voters
– Bradley effect
– “Pollsters were wrong”
–Any time Obama Wins a State

If you hear a lot of this last one, then you’d better make a pot of coffee and line up the Advil. Obama fans may not want to get out of bed the next day. Or ever again.

McCain

For you McCainiacs, get comfy and then pop a shot - yes, you too, wine snobs - every time you hear utterances of these words:

– Maverick
– Pennsylvania
– Joe the Plumber
– Palin effect
– Real Americans
– Socialist
– Terrorist
– Ayers
– POW
– Negative
– Steve Schmidt
– “In the tank”
– The media
– ACORN
– Fraud

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