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Ken Lerer, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Huffington Post will throw a dot-commer’s shindig at his Central Park West apartment starting around 1 a.m. if Obama wins. Expect plenty of multimillionaire website founders—probably former AOL Time Warner COO Bob Pittman (who just sold DailyCandy.com for a cool $130 million), and Lerer’s son, Ben, who started Thrillist.com. Private residence, NYC.
Harvey Weinstein, Georgette Mosbacher, GQ Editor-in-Chief Jim Nelson and Glamour Editor-in-Chief Cindy Leive are hosting a bipartisan bash at The Public House in Midtown Manhattan.
Godless Hollywood liberals gather at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles for a California Democratic Party party. Hosts include Peter Fonda, Pierce Bronsan, Zooey Deschanel, Sarah Silverman, Jerry Zucker, and Senator Barbara Boxer.
Big-shot Hollywood TV writers congregate at the Los Angeles home of Alan Yang, writer for South Park and the upcoming Office spinoff with Amy Poehler, and at the home of Peter Blake, writer for House. Private residences, Los Angeles.
Public Affairs executive Sam Lauter has organized a party for San Francisco’s elected officials, election workers, volunteers, and maybe Mayor Gavin Newsom. Political groups hosting the event include green technology innovators Cleantech for Obama, and Emerge CA, a group founded by Esprit founder and Hillary Clinton supporter Susie Tompkins. Bar, downtown San Francisco.
McCain is heading back to Phoenix for election night, where you can watch the results with exhausted campaign workers at the Biltmore Hotel. (Perhaps superstition is driving his decision, as he married Cindy and won the RNC nom at the hotel, too.) Tickets aren't available for the fete, but sources are saying McCain might leave the party to address a crowd on the front lawn, so grab a brown bag and camp out if you'd like to see the man in person. 2400 East Missouri Avenue, Phoenix, AZ.
And for West Coast geeks, the most exclusive Silicon Valley election night party in San Francisco is a small gathering at the home of Josh McFarland (a former Googler and now Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Greylock Partners). The Google founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, may pop in. Private residence, SOMA, San Francisco.
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Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Deborah Schoeneman has been a columnist for The New York Observer, New York magazine, and Condé Nast Portfolio and served as editor-in-chief of Hampton Style magazine. Deborah's the author of the novel 4% Famous and moved to Los Angeles last year to break into Hollywood writing and learn how to surf.
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Jocelyn Guest is a writer and performer based in New York City. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, Nerve.com, Time Out New York, and the walls of various bathroom stalls around the city. She writes and performs with the sketch comedy troupe Rhoda.
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