Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway

Huh, you've finally presented me with a complete "I can't understand that view." (Note that means simply that it's completely foreign to my experience, not that it's Bad or Wrong or anything like that.) I LIVE for election nights. I love watching the returns come in. I want to be there when the election gets called (or even as happened in 2000, uncalled). It goes back to my first Election Night in 1968, when I was five years old, and my parents let me stay up to watch the news until the unheard of hour of 9 p.m. I still remember being bummed that I had to go to sleep while the election was still in doubt, and being worse bummed on the bus to school the next morning when I asked my Mom who won, and she told me it was Nixon. I can't imagine going to sleep knowing that one could know (again, as opposed to 2000, where I needed to sleep, of course, between Election Day and the Supreme Court's decision a month later).