Election 2016
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- nockermensch
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Bah, I gotta sleep, and the situation doesn't look good. The best case scenario right now is a slight Hillary win, which is already kind of depressing.
I sure hope I don't wake up tomorrow with you guys under Trump. Good luck.
I sure hope I don't wake up tomorrow with you guys under Trump. Good luck.
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The fuck, Ohio?
Well, now I feel nauseous.
Alright, BBC is interviewing some Evangelical fuck (Falwell Junior), and apparently it's officially OK to grope women, because Evangelicals believe that we are all sinners.
Well, now I feel nauseous.
Alright, BBC is interviewing some Evangelical fuck (Falwell Junior), and apparently it's officially OK to grope women, because Evangelicals believe that we are all sinners.
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- angelfromanotherpin
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Trump is pulling ahead...
I don't know what to say.
I don't know what to say.
Maxus wrote:Being wrong is something that rightly should be celebrated, because now you have a chance to correct and then you'll be better than you were five minutes ago. Perfection is a hollow shell, but perfectibility is something that is to be treasured.
Gaps actually closing a bit with Virginia and Colorado (131-168). Trump actually started the evening ahead, because a lot of his states are smaller rural pops that lead to a quicker count. Most the remaining states are going to be stupidly close or democrat strongholds (Cali).Covent wrote:Trump is pulling ahead...
I don't know what to say.
That said, it is worrisome, because the PA attorney general (or somebody) said turnout was up to around 80%, which is both unprecedented and worrisome, as we've got a lot of uneducated white males to fuck things up.
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- angelfromanotherpin
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So how often do 3rd party candidates get 3-4% of the vote in so many states? Anybody know the history of that or where I could find some easy to gloss over comparisons?
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My whole family is huddled in one room right now in terror. Seriously my mother who is 63 is comparing this to how she felt during "duck and cover" exercises in grade school.
Maxus wrote:Being wrong is something that rightly should be celebrated, because now you have a chance to correct and then you'll be better than you were five minutes ago. Perfection is a hollow shell, but perfectibility is something that is to be treasured.
None of us is as dumb as all of usAncient History wrote:YOU HAD ONE JOB.
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It's basically down to Florida. Whoever gets Florida is almost certainly President.
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2000 all over again.Grek wrote:It's basically down to Florida. Whoever gets Florida is almost certainly President.
FrankTrollman wrote: Halfling women, as I'm sure you are aware, combine all the "fun" parts of pedophilia without any of the disturbing, illegal, or immoral parts.
K wrote:That being said, the usefulness of airships for society is still transporting cargo because it's an option that doesn't require a powerful wizard to show up for work on time instead of blowing the day in his harem of extraplanar sex demons/angels.
Chamomile wrote: See, it's because K's belief in leaving generation of individual monsters to GMs makes him Chaotic, whereas Frank's belief in the easier usability of monsters pre-generated by game designers makes him Lawful, and clearly these philosophies are so irreconcilable as to be best represented as fundamentally opposed metaphysical forces.
Whipstitch wrote:You're on a mad quest, dude. I'd sooner bet on Zeus getting bored and letting Sisyphus put down the fucking rock.
It does have similar levels of abject stupidity. I remember mine, simply because we were also told that since we were on the top floor, we probably wouldn't make it to the fallout shelter in the basement.Covent wrote:My whole family is huddled in one room right now in terror. Seriously my mother who is 63 is comparing this to how she felt during "duck and cover" exercises in grade school.
Oh good, with 77% counted, she's leading in PA by 3 points. Something.
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Clinton did not need Ohio or Florida. In fact, we always knew that she was probably going to lose Ohio and that Florida would be a toss up. The real surprise tonight is the complete collapse of Clinton's firewall; she was the favorite in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and she is losing every single one of those states.MGuy wrote:Well if I'm reading this thing correctly it looks like Ohio may have made it for the Donald. If he only needs 102 it looks like he's going to get that and more.
But it's basically over at this point. Considering the current state of the race and the votes left to count, a Clinton victory would be... statistically astronomical. Her support among white voters collapsed harder than everyone expected. She didn't beat Obama among college-educated whites, at least not where she needed to. She didn't even beat Trump with women by as large a margins as everyone thought. There was a latino surge, but that means fuck all because it happened in states that don't matter. African American turnout is down, partly because of successful suppression (North Carolina). Clinton's coalition was... shit.
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It's been pretty obviously red for awhile. Weren't enough votes left to flip it for at least an hour now, media is just reluctant to call it because it's Florida.
The tl;dr right now is that Clinton wins Wisconsin, Michigan, AND Pennsylvania or she's done. She's projected to lose all of them by various margins. There's also bizarro worlds in which she loses one, holds the tiny blue states like Nevada or New Hampshire, and snipes a red state somehow.
The tl;dr right now is that Clinton wins Wisconsin, Michigan, AND Pennsylvania or she's done. She's projected to lose all of them by various margins. There's also bizarro worlds in which she loses one, holds the tiny blue states like Nevada or New Hampshire, and snipes a red state somehow.
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I am going to drink a beer and may call in sick tomorrow...
Maxus wrote:Being wrong is something that rightly should be celebrated, because now you have a chance to correct and then you'll be better than you were five minutes ago. Perfection is a hollow shell, but perfectibility is something that is to be treasured.
Who are you watching? I'm seeing the opposite in PA (49-47), though Wisconsin and Michigan look bad.DSMatticus wrote:It's been pretty obviously red for awhile. Weren't enough votes left to flip it for at least an hour now, media is just reluctant to call it because it's Florida.
The tl;dr right now is that Clinton wins Wisconsin, Michigan, AND Pennsylvania or she's done. She's projected to lose all of them by various margins. There's also bizarro worlds in which she loses one, holds the tiny blue states like Nevada or New Hampshire, and snipes a red state somehow.
Ugh. I'm so fucking tired of these fuckwits talking about how his 'plain speaking' connected with them and other voters. Can't lie, if you talk plain and look the other man in eye, right? Stupid fucking fuckers.
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Clinton is currently ahead with votes counted, but demographically the remaining votes to be counted should favor Trump. It's the closest of the three, but smart money says it's Trump's.
Here's the NY Times estimate, for example.
Here's the NY Times estimate, for example.
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I'm not sure that's true, while several small countries in PA remain outstanding, several larger urban counties have also not been completely counted. I think Clinton can retain PA in a squeaker. She's also gaining ground in Michigan with a good chunk of the Detroit area yet to report. Wisconsin is the one of the three that looks the worst at the moment.
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And we've got the new wave of people blaming the DNC for rigging primaries and not electing Sanders. I cannot believe this.
DSMatticus wrote:Again, look at this fucking map you moron. Take your finger and trace each country's coast, then trace its claim line. Even you - and I say that as someone who could not think less of your intelligence - should be able to tell that one of these things is not like the other.
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