Try to wake up at 2am or just not go to bed?

[Canadian876]

Politics addict (don't judge me) currently planning how I watch election night. Since having a child and turning 40 I'm not as good with lack of sleep and haven't done an all nighter for a decade! But I don't want to miss this one. Election night not everyone's cup of tea I realise, but can I ask about planning to stay up all night more generally.

The exit poll is at 10pm and then the first interesting results start coming around 2 am.

Should I
A) drink coffee / wine and stay up all night
B) go to bed at 10.05pm and set at alarm for 2am?

A bit worried setting an alarm for 2am will make me feel rotten and worse than if I'd just stayed up.

WWYD?

Please could you link? Sounds like a great thread!

I have booked Friday off. My plan is to watch the exit poll, then sleep until 2.30. I wouldn't manage to stay up all night so I am going to get some sleep in the early bit when not much happens.

the result will be no different but if you lose a whole nights sleep it will take days to catch up on it

I'll just go to bed as normal when I feel like it and probably see what's going on when I get up for my regular as clockwork 3 am wee. Might stay up for a bit depending on how I feel.

It will be all over the news with endless recaps etc and available on catch up so there's no need to see it 'as it happens all night' as far as I can see.