Election Night Dinner

We're having Texas Chili (homemade chili the way I learned to make it in Texas, but with beans because it's healthier) and Samuel Adams beer (from Massachusetts- no kids of course). Here's a pie I found in Family Circle which I have made a couple of times, for Veteran's Day and the 4th of July but could work for election day too:
Flag cake
2 pie crusts, rolled out (pillsbury, homemade, whatever, doesn't matter)
1 can blueberry pie filling
1 can cherry pie filling
piece of cardboard-- like half a cereal box top

Put one crust in the pie pan (9 or 10 inch). Take the cardboard and fold it at a right angle, then stick it upright into the bottom crust. You want it to be closing off a quarter-circle, a quarter of the pie. Then you put some blueberry pie filling in the quarter-circle, enough to go to the top of the pie pan, and you fill the other three quarters with cherry pie filling. Cut the other pie crust into stars and stripes with a knife. Put the stars on the blueberry part and the stripes on the cherry part. You probably will not be able to fit enough stripes, and certainly not fifty stars, but it looks really cute anyway. Then you take out the cardboard and bake it.

Any Fourth of July-type thing would work well, I think.

Wish I had opened this topic earlier. Would have went great with our Homeschool "Election Day" lesson.

The beans must have been a little old, because they did not soften in time, so they are cooking in the crockpot overnight. I know they will soften then, because I made bean soup in the crockpot already with the rest of the bag of beans. So we ordered pizza.