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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Just got back from voting in Suburbia's Shit-Slicked Asshole rural Pennsylvania. Got to the polling place just after 7 AM, and the lines were all the way out the door.
All I can do now is wait, and hope and have a nice sturdy escape rope ready in case of the worst.
@Angelus: I'm pretty sure turning 30 isn't a magical switch that somehow makes you instantly vulnerable to issues like heart failure. If you're healthy now, you'll probably be fairly healthy then.
Kanye West would make it interesting, that much is true. Of course, he most likely would be running with a D next to his name, so the only way he gets past the primaries is if Hillary is found to be a wash and dropped by her own party after the first term.
edited 8th Nov '16 6:08:24 AM by TotemicHero
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)In my country we have obligatory vote but if you don't want to vote for anyone, you can just "vote void", which is effectively the same as abstaining.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I'd like to imagine that being forced to show up at the ballot box would make citizens more engaged but I'm not sure that's true in practice. Aussies seem more concerned about drop bears then whichever shitwhistle is currently running the show.
The (i imagine) final update for 538 has clinton at 71% and the senate still in a toss up. They'll also be live blogging all damn day.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?considering whether trump wins or not, he's probably gonna go for a re/election next year
and if hillary's gonna go at it again i wouldn't be surprised if there's some chaos early on in the vote, before the nominees are decided
I'm not the only one who's thought with morbid fascination of successive Trump and Kanye inaugurations (the one would almost make the other plausible, if the planet survived long enough). Hopefully today is the last day I can consider this
a possibility.
Instead, let's all just sit and silently pray the the nuclear codes don't fall into the hands of a depraved, unapologetic, and toxically ignorant bigot with no sense of decency or restraint. I really, really don't want to believe that we're so far gone as a country for that to happen.
Voted this morning. My state is pretty much guaranteed to go blue no matter what, but it's all I can do at this point.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."

Im guessing Clinton wins with between 320 to 340 electoral votes, Democrats take the Senate with 52 senators. The House stays solidly red, but even during Clinton's best moments it was incredibly unlikely to flip.
Best to everyone, good luck out there.
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