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nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#149952: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:17:08 PM

[up][up]Well shit.

edited 8th Nov '16 6:17:24 PM by nervmeister

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#149953: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:17:26 PM

I did a bit of math, if she holds out elsewhere Clinton can't win if she loses Virginia, NC, Florida, Ohio and Iowa.

edited 8th Nov '16 6:18:25 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#149954: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:17:26 PM

Shit.

How is Hillary losing this?

Shippudentimes Since: Dec, 2012
#149955: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:17:32 PM

Welp, everyone start acting like Zognoids now to live in Trump's America.

Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#149956: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:17:48 PM

Well this is worrying as hell. Thanks a lot Comey. And thanks to the "liberal media" for obsessing over goddamn emails as much as you did. Honestly I can't help but think that in doing that the press not only made Clinton look worse but made Trump's scandals seem better. It's not hard for idiot voters to take the message that Trump's scandals don't matter since they change so much, while the obsession over Clinton's "one" is evidence that it really matters.

If Trump wins, I will 100% blame the media for their part in it. I don't give a damn if they were supposedly biased against him, the amount of free attention and legitimacy they've been giving to that creep for years is a large part of the reason why we're here in the first place.

That, and apparently about 50% of the US actually thinks his ideas have merit. I haven't heard a single person here in Canada (except one guy, and this was four years ago), say that they thought Trump would be a good president, not even supposedly right-wing folks, so in a way I still have a difficult time even comprehending any of this...

edited 8th Nov '16 6:18:01 PM by Pseudopartition

Wildcard Since: Jun, 2012
#149957: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:17:50 PM

DAMN IT! DAMN IT! DAMN IT! I hope this goes to 11. I know early rural voting and all that, but I am genuinely scared. Yeah I could survive it, but I don't want Right Wingers to take this tonight. It means more power after just last year their assholishness was finally getting consequences. I hope by 11 we'll have a Clinton victory. :(

I hope this isn't America's Brexit. We should have learned from that.

lakingsif Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#149958: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:17:54 PM

Announced:

Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, TEXAS, Arkansas, Kansas

Vermont, Massachussetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia, Rhode Island, Illinois, New York

Leading:

Virginia, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Florida , Ohio , Michigan

New Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maine, Colorado, Missouri, New Mexico

Other:

Florida , Ohio , North Carolina, Mississippi

  • Removing Democratic strongholds, Trump would need 28 States.
  • North Carolina extending voting time in 8 precincts
  • New Jersey announced Democrat as soon as voting closed, as votes are being counted it currently stands Republican lead [1]
    • Voting concludes. Democrat win in NJ.
  • One person dies after being shot on their way to a polling place in Los Angeles.

Electoral College:

Clinton 104 | 129 Trump

edited 8th Nov '16 6:19:21 PM by lakingsif

OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#149959: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:18:12 PM

I'm really starting to hate the third party voters in the swing states.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#149960: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:18:20 PM

Hillary had a huge early voting lead in a lot of states. I hate to say it but is it possible those were most of her supporters?

BestOf FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC! from Finland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
#149961: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:18:26 PM

It's not fair yet to call this a "Brexit" scale polling error or anything. Remember that we don't have the results in yet.

Also remember that the counts you see right now of electoral votes for each candidate are based only on the states that have been projected already. There are huge blue results incoming, California most important among them. Trump got a whole bunch of easy states just now, none of them from Clinton's column.

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
SatoshiBakura (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#149962: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:18:26 PM

Because everyone in 'Murica is an idiot.

SomeNewGuy Since: Jun, 2009
#149963: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:18:26 PM

@Mad Skillz Long story short? Wikileaks revealed a LOT of VERY unflattering potential info on her.

Plus a lot of people are afraid that she wants WW3 with Russia.

edited 8th Nov '16 6:18:51 PM by SomeNewGuy

megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#149964: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:18:41 PM

Guys, it's because urban areas are more often than not counted last. Fairfax County is Clinton's stronghold in VA; Miami-Dade is the same in FL. Trump is leading because his stronger rural areas report faster.

The damned queen and the relentless knight.
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#149965: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:18:51 PM

@Mad Skillz: Shy white nationalist factor?

edited 8th Nov '16 6:19:41 PM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
Sharysa Since: Jan, 2001
#149966: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:18:51 PM

Many friends are comparing this to The Hunger Games, I volunteered to be Female Captain America and punch Trump in the face in case he wins, and other friends are taking photos of the alcohol they're drinking.

I'd say large swathes of America are having a mass panic attack right now.

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#149967: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:19:43 PM

Getting ready to fuck off to Canada in a suitcase. Anybody up there who can take me in?

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#149968: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:19:47 PM

I panicked for a little bit but mostly calmed down. I would be a lot more frightened if I was a US citizen.

[up] If Brazil's elections go the way I expect them to I might well have to jump ship with you.

edited 8th Nov '16 6:21:00 PM by Draghinazzo

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#149969: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:20:01 PM

Hmm, some of the polls putting Trump as above Clinton said that Miami-Dade had already reported.

megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#149970: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:20:02 PM

NBC Calls:

  • Clinton (104): CT, DE, DC, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, RI, VT
  • Trump (137): AL, AR, IN, KS, KY, LA, MS, ND, OK, SC, SD, TX, WV, WY
  • Too early: AZ, CO, ME, NC, NH, PA, VA, WI
  • Too close: FL, GA, MI, MN, NM, OH

Senate:

  • Called for Democrat: CT (Blumenthal), IL (Duckworth - GAIN), MD (Van Hollen), NY (Schumer), VT (Leahy)
  • Called for Republican: AL (Shelby), AZ (McCain), FL (Rubio), GA (Isakson), KS (Moran), KY (Paul), ND (Hoeven), OH (Portman), OK (Lankford), SC (Scott), SD (Thune)
  • Too early/Too close: AR, CO, GA, NC, NH, LA, MO, PA, WI

The damned queen and the relentless knight.
thatguythere47 Since: Jul, 2010
#149971: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:20:17 PM

yall need to chillax, trumps leading because they called texas and still havent called cali, she evens out.

Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#149972: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:20:45 PM

If Trump wins, progressivism in America is dead.

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
SatoshiBakura (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#149973: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:20:50 PM

I know that the urban areas haven't been counted yet. But it's fun to overreact.

FergardStratoavis A Fluff Ringer from Bellveins (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: A gay little love melody
A Fluff Ringer
#149974: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:21:02 PM

Virgina leaning back to Clinton, 49-47.

InAnOdderWay Since: Nov, 2013
#149975: Nov 8th 2016 at 6:21:20 PM

"I did a bit of math, if she holds out elsewhere Clinton can't win if she loses Virginia, NC, Florida, Ohio and Iowa."

That being said, I doubt she looses ALL of them. Maybe some, maybe even most, but sure as hell not all.


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