Our family is planning to watch the election coverage together on Tuesday night. What do you recommend we watch? We’d like some good quality national coverage without getting bombarded by red politics. We don’t have cable TV, so are limited to streaming services.

21 points

None. First of all, watching news is far worse then reading it in terms of how you guard against subjective influence.

Second, who cares. It’s exhausting. It’s toxic. What happens will happen and we’ll see the news later. I think last time it even took a couple days.

I’ll probably see the result without effort the next day, say “huh,” and go on with my life.

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There are gonna be so many lawsuits this election we won’t know the outcome till Jan 7

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Save your mind. Just look at the newspaper the next day.

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I’m going to have to agree with everyone here, we won’t know anything Tuesday night and more than likely won’t know anything for a week or more.

Pennsylvania is essential to both parties and they have an absolutely absurd law that prevents them from counting mailed ballots until election night so that state won’t have results for quite some time. Tie that into the thousands of lawsuits the GOP is ready to file and the whole first half of November is going to be irritating.

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None. Nothing you learn will be actionable in any way. Just free anxiety/outrage.

Watch Billy Crystal’s 1998 masterpiece “My Giant” instead. :)

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Plug for “America’s Sweethearts” also starring Billy Crystal as well.

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