Not surprisingly, many DC bars are hosting watch parties and showcasing election specials for the mid-term elections coming up Tuesday, November 6th. [Note that 18 USC 597 technically prohibits someone from “making or offering to make an expenditure” vote, or from someone from accepting money when there’s a federal candidate on the ballot, guessing DC Delegate race counts. Some real lawyers (not me, this ain’t legal advice) say offering a discount to someone in a “I voted” sticker is the same as “making an expenditure” but there’s not evidence this has ever been charged]
DC is overwhelmingly liberal, but if you want to avoid some conservatives, don’t goto Navy Yard or the Hill because there will be some there.
Here’s a list of spots and details (updated as plans emerge:
- Barrel (Eastern Market)
- $1 Old Fashioneds (must give “I Voted” sticker to bar), limit 1. 4-8:30p
- Union Pub (Cap Hill)
- Red and blue cocktails (names and ingredients TBD), $4 select bourbons, & $4 Belgian beers from 5p until close.
- Social media vote for other options ($3 rails or $2 featured shots, $3 mystery beers, and $12 Narragansett beer) (EDIT: $3 rails won)
- Roofer’s Union (Adams Morgan)
- all night HH includes $4 local drafts, $5 cask beer/ house wine / spirits
- Denizen’s Mini-tap takeover (all Denizen’s half off)
- half-price large-format bottled beers
- $9 Blue Negroni
- City Tap Dupont
- HH 4-10p ($4 craft beer cans, $5 select drafts, $6 house wines, $7 premium mixed drinks)
- Free State (PQ/Chinatown)
- 10% discount for wearing I Voted sticker. Bar will donate 10% of your tab to Planned Parenthood
- Ventnor Sports (Adams MOrgan)
- 10% off to anyone in an “I voted” sticker
- perennial spot to watch election results
- Pennsylvania 6 (Downtown)
- extended HH 4-10p ($5 rails, $5 selected drafts, $5 house wine)
- Ana at District Winery (Navy Yard)
- “I Voted” sticker gets you 20% off check
- Liaison Capitol Hill
- bourbon samples from Republic Restoratives to those wearing bowtie
- drink specials start at 6p
- Logan Tavern
- free trail mix for those with I Voted sticker
- noon-close election-speicials (all day HH)
- The Bird (Shaw)
- Moscow Mueller for $4 with I Voted Sticker
- Ambar (Barracks Row)
- HH from 4-10p ($5 drinks and Bites), which is extended 3 hours
- Bar Deco (Chinatown)
- viewing party on 3rd floor
- $7 Old Fashioneds/Manhattans
- Dyllan’s Raw Bar (Georgetown)
- mini-muffins
- $1 off 2 specialty cocktails with I voted sticker
- Mission Navy Yard
- $7 margs / $5 Dos Equis drafts / $5 Patron shots
- $8 quesadillas
- owner is a big Republican fundraiser FYI
- Matchbox (Chinatown, 14th St, Barracks Row)
- all day HH
- The Park at 14th (Downtown)
- election night watch party 5-11:30p
- Rare Steakhouse & Tavern (Downtown)
- all night HH starts at 4p
- food/drink deals
- Upper West Side Cafe (West End)
- Free Eggenberg draft beer to those who show I Voted stickers
- Teddy and the Bully Bar (Dupont)
- 3p-midnight
- $5 American mules / $7 wine
- food specials
- Duffy’s (H Street)
- Free Guinness Blonde draft with I Voted sticker (limited supplies)
- Reliable Tavern (Petworth)
- Beto O’Rourke watch party
- Texas-themed specials
- The Pinch (ColHi)
- red/blue lemonades, beer specials
- poker at 6:30p / improv at 7p
- Across the Pond (Dupont)
- HH all day: $3-$5 beer specials; $5 rails, $5 house wine/glass & $5 apps
- Biergarten Haus (H Street)
- all day drink specials (opens at 4p)
- normal trivia 8-9:30p
- Wisdom (Capitol Hill / East)
- I voted sticker gets you a Freedom Punch
- HH on beer/wine extended all night for everyone (past 7:30p normal)
- Exile’s (U Street)
- drink specials all night sponsored by Jameson
- Dino’s Grotto (Shaw)
- HH deals on antipasto and drinks all night when you show I voted sticker
- everyone gets normal 1/2 off great burger
- Satellite Room (Shaw)
- $2 Election special cocktail shooters all night with I voted Sticker
- Beuchert’s Saloon (Eastern Market)
- normal amazing Tuesday special of 1/2 price great burger (w fries) + $5 select beers all night
- Pitchers (Adams Morgan)
- show I Voted sticker when you walk in door, get 1st drink free
- Tortilla Coast (Capitol Hil)
- HH all day long if wearing I voted sticker
- specials include $5 Donkey Tail (Hotdog wrapped in flour tortilla & fried, topped with melted cheddar cheese +salsa), $4 Elephant Ears (2 fried flour tortillas, tossed in cinnamon sugar, served with scoop of ice cream), $6 Stars & Stripes Frozen Lime & Strawberry margs, topped with blue curaco
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