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• Georgia Democratic Party and the Obama campaign at the Hyatt Regency downtown
• Jim Martin at Park Tavern
• GOP bashes at the Intercontinental Hotel in Buckhead
• Libertarians at the Mansour Center in Marietta
• The Watchtower at Sugarhill
• DeKalb County Democratic Election Night Celebration at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Decatur
• The usual suspects at Manuel’s Tavern
• Election Day Costume Party at Cenci
• Election Party at 595 North Ave.
• Huge Election Watch Party at Amsterdam Atlanta
• Stonewall Democrats Election Night Party at Halo Lounge
• Barack Obama Official Yes We Did Final Watch Party at Fox Sports Grill
• Yes We Have! Obama Presidential Election Results Celebration at Verve Restaurant and Lounge
• Presidential Election Watch Night Party at Encore in Duluth
• One Nation Under a Change Election Night Party at Luella’s Restaurant in Jonesboro
• Election Results Party at McCray’s Tavern on the Square in Lawrenceville

Did we miss one? Leave it in the comments for your fellow election watchers.

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DeKalb County, like Fulton, is represented in Congress by one Republican and two Democrats. Also like Fulton, it’s gerrymandered to protect the incumbents.

And in DeKalb County, just like in Fulton County, all three incumbent congressman are set to win re-election.

Hank Johnson, who defeated firebrand (and current Green Party presidential candidate) Cynthia McKinney) in the 2006 Democratic primary, may have the easiest road, even though he’s the state  congressional delegation’s sole freshman. His only known foes in the Fourth District are write-in candidates: “conservative-libertarian” Loren Collins, who has proposed replacing Andrew Jackson with James Madison on the $20 bill; and retired police Sgt. Faye Coffield, whose slogan is: “She is different.”

While we have doubts whether Johnson has the political skills to develop into a leader in Congress, he’s done well at representing the interests of those in his district, which includes most of DeKalb County, well. And he’s fairly consistently voted to support important values like equity, justice and the environment.

Each of DeKalb’s two other congressmen — Republican Tom Price and Democrat David Scott — faces an opponent from the opposite party.

Price — who’s proven a stridently partisan voice in Congress more often concerned with showmanship than responsible legislation — is opposed by Air-Force-and-Delta-pilot-turned-businessman Bill Jones. While he doesn’t stand much of a chance in the conservative Sixth district (which pokes into DeKalb in the Dunwoody area), a vote for Jones might at least send a message that we’d prefer our elected officials to put more effort into solving problems than into scoring political points.

Scott’s 13th district creeps into extreme South DeKalb near the Clayton County line. He’s disappointed us at times, most recently with relevations that his campaign has paid more than half a million dollars to his own firm and his campaign. Still, his hapless opponent, Deborah Honeycutt, is a fellow traveler in today’s radical Republican ideology and questions surround fundraising and spending at her own campaign. We’d back Scott despite his flaws.

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