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The Best Parties You Can Get Into!

SNL alum Colin Quinn will host election returns at the Olive Tree Cafe (above the Comedy Cellar on Macdougal St., NYC) from 8:30 p.m. Other Cellar regulars – Dave Chappelle, Lewis Black and Dave Attell -- may stop by as the results are broadcast live. Entrance is free, but guests have to spend at least $10 on food and drink.

Even if you've defected to Paris, you can still watch the results surrounded by your fellow Americans. The Obama Victory Party party at Palais Maillot kicks off at midnight and will have live results until 6 a.m. Stick around until 3, when they’ll serve "Obagels" and cream cheese.

Head to DC for any of hundreds of election day parties. At 8 p.m., former American Idol contestant Antonella Barba and team are setting up a red carpet and fancy cocktails for the second year in a row at ULTRABAR (911 F Street). The party offers free WiFi. Tickets start at $25, but for VIP treatment you'll pay $500.

In the Bay Area. The USS Potomac Foundation is hosting an election night cruise and viewing party ($195 ticket) on the historic FDR presidential yacht. The foundation in only selling 100 tickets for this rare opportunity (proceeds benefit the foundation) which picks up guests at San Francisco's Pier 40 in the South Beach Marina at 6:00pm. With good food, lots of booze, and amazing views, the price might be worth it. But be sure to have an after-party in mind as the cruise wraps up at 11pm. Click here for tickets.

In Obama's hometown, Chicagoans are serious about having fun on Tuesday. The biggest event in the city will be the Obama rally in Grant Park—expect up to a million revelers, no-bag rules and exceptionally strict security. Gates (on E. Congress Pkwy. and E. Jackson Blvd.) open at 8:30pm.

Brooklyn’s Galapagos Art Space is hosting the Obama-Fabulous Election Night Party, with "Yes We Can!-Can!" can-can dancers, a presidential kissing booth, and an inexplicable appearance by Santa Claus. If Obama wins, the bar will even kick-start the president-elect's economic recovery with free cosmos for everybody. Begins at 6 p.m. $10 cover.

Obama Girl, that scantily clad Barack Fan we loved and then forgot about, is teaming up with the BarelyPolitical.com guys (the folks who bring you funny albeit tangential and not exactly high brow political vids) to throw a party at Haven (244 East 51st Street) at 8pm with $15.

Living Liberally, Planned Parenthood, NYC Activist Council and The New York Civil Liberties Union of Young Professionals are taking over Comix Comedy Club (14th St at 9th Avenue) for their election bash. There's no cover (though drinks can get expensive), and the LL team is promising luminaries of the comedic and liberal sort throughout the night.

British art dealer Gavin Brown is hosting a party inside the Jonathan Horowitz gallery show titled Obama 08. Expect downtown art-world denizens like Yvonne Force Villareal of the Art Production Fund and Vogue-approved artist Hope Atherton, who dates Brown. 620 Greenwich St., NYC.