My ideal election day would look like this:
After waking early and lining up for the opening of my local polling place, voting, and getting a sticker I would
Return home, NOT go to work, plunk down in front of my multiple monitor setup:
(1) television hooked up to my xbox for playing Call of Duty 4 and discussing polling results and pundit predictions with others online (while "fragging n00bs")
(1) television set to automatically skip from MSNBC to CNN to CSPAN every five to seven minutes (with the top-of-the-hour check on Fox News)
(1) computer running multiple tabs including but not limited to
fivethirtyeight.com, youtube, google reader, and some news aggregate site, let's say Yahoo.
Also, there would be snacks.
Then, near 6 o'clock, when the projections and predictions start rolling in for real, I would tune each monitor to a different network, run them all simultaneously and cheer/boo every result as it is announced.
And, snacks.
-t