Especially Election night 2000. Does anybody remember what an incredible rollercoaster of an evening (actually night AND morning) that was? First things were looking good for Bush, then it is reported that Gore had won Florida and everybody gets into a funk. I remember swallowing down the better part of a bottle of Scotch to kill the pain of the impending Gore presidency. Then while lying passed out on the floor with the TV set still on, something about Florida going into the tossup column vaguely entered my concisousness. I thought it was just the wishful thinking of a depressed drunk's mind until I woke up just enough to have it confirmed on TV and the FR. Then I sobered up QUICKLY and followed the results closely here on the FR. Then Florida is called for Bush and I breath a sigh of relief. THEN it goes back into the tossup column again and another big rollercoaster ride here on the FR. I felt like hitting that bottle again but instead followed the rollercoaster on the FR. Finally went to sleep at daybreak figuring it would be resolved later that day. Little did I know it would go on for another 6 weeks....and the FR was my primary source for the election battle info.
And I still remember the incredible emotion of those posts from election night here.