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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#150601: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:37:30 PM

According to Wikipedia, it's still a close race (Trumps 216 vs. Clinton's 209). Whoever's going to win is basically going to win through the nick of their teeth.

... But it is looking like it's Trump coming to the White House.

Shippudentimes Since: Dec, 2012
#150602: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:37:39 PM

CBS News reported Trump won Iowa. And the reporters sound heartbroken.

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#150603: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:37:41 PM

Part of me wants to run away to Canada.

But the other part of me knows that's the coward's way out, and I'd be abandoning a lot of innocent people here who don't have the same option.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
lakingsif Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#150604: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:38:04 PM

    Announced 

Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, TEXAS, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Missouri, Ohio, Florida, Idaho, North Carolina, Utah, Iowa

Vermont, Massachussetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia, Rhode Island, Illinois, New York, Connecticut, New Mexico, Virginia, Colorado, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington

    Leading 

Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Arizona

Pennsylvania, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada

    Other 

  • 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.
  • DOW Jones Futures down 300
  • Florida: (47.7:49.2) >99% reporting (10:50 pm ET)
    • Broward County 13 precincts not reporting
    • Palm Beach 27 precincts not reporting
    • Monroe County 1 precinct not reporting
    • Bay County: All precincts now reporting
    • Miami-Dade: All precincts now reporting
  • All States reporting except Alaska
  • Canada's Immigration website has crashed.
  • Senate: +1 -1
  • House: +2 -2

Electoral College:

Clinton 222 | 228 Trump

Updates:

  • Republican win in Iowa

edited 8th Nov '16 8:39:12 PM by lakingsif

OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!
LogoP Party Crasher from the Land of Deep Blue Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Party Crasher
#150605: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:38:16 PM

Trump projected to win Iowa & Georgia.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#150606: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:38:22 PM

TRUMP DOES NOT KNOW WHY HE CANNOT USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS ON ALL OF HIS ENEMIES.

THIS COULD CAUSE THE END OF THE WORLD.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
thatguythere47 Since: Jul, 2010
CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#150608: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:38:36 PM

God damn this country.

"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."
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#150609: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:38:45 PM

Bluefish, please calm down, the capslock is not helping.

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#150610: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:39:04 PM

NBC Charlotte Verified account ‏@wcnc

  1. BREAKING: The North Carolina State Board of Elections says Durham County has not yet uploaded roughly 93,000 early voting results.

hardcorefakes coolest_guy from probably America Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
coolest_guy
#150611: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:39:07 PM

Iowa too?

....Yikes.

speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#150612: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:39:24 PM

I'm having a hard time saying it's over, despite what some networks and websites say, because not all votes for all states have been counted yet.

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#150613: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:39:34 PM

How about I calm down once we find out that everything we've been hearing is a load of horseshit and we're not actually going to be electing a rapist to the highest office we are capable of giving?

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#150614: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:39:41 PM

FUCK THIS CESSPIT WHOREHOUSE OF A COUNTRY WE LIVE IN

hardcorefakes coolest_guy from probably America Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
coolest_guy
#150615: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:39:58 PM
Thumped: Wow. That was rude. Too many of this kind of thump will bring a suspension. Please keep it civil.
lakingsif Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#150616: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:40:07 PM

Republican win in Georgia

OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!
LogoP Party Crasher from the Land of Deep Blue Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Party Crasher
#150617: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:40:09 PM

MSNBC calls Iowa to Trump

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#150618: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:40:12 PM

We need Hillary to flip Arizona or something for Wisconsin's probable loss.

Lennik (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#150619: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:40:25 PM

So I think we can now conclude that polls really are worthless.

That's right, boys. Mondo cool.
Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#150620: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:40:27 PM

Every time I think things can't possibly get any worse, they get worse.

Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
vandro Shop Owner from The little shop that wasn't Since: Jul, 2009
Shop Owner
#150621: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:40:36 PM

Hmmm...A thriumph for Trump is interesting, to say the least. there's a bit of me that's quietly saying, god damn, and another part that says: Hey! Identity politics work! Just for the majority population.

Sharysa Since: Jan, 2001
#150622: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:40:42 PM

Okay, I amend my previous post about not trusting meatspace white people if Trump wins.

If Trump wins, I'm going to find Steve Rogers so he can fix this shit.

"He went on about how precious America was — how you needed to make sure it remained great!

And he told you anything was justified to preserve that great treasure, that pearl of great price that is America!

Well, I say America is nothing! Without its ideals — its commitment to the freedom of all men, America is a piece of trash!

A nation is nothing! A flag is a piece of cloth!

I fought Adolf Hitler not because America was great, but because it was fragile! I knew that liberty could be snuffed out here as in Nazi Germany! As a people, we were no different than them!

When I returned, I saw that you nearly did turn American into nothing!

And the only reason you're not less then nothing — is that it's still possible for you to bring freedom back to America!"

edited 8th Nov '16 8:41:19 PM by Sharysa

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#150623: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:40:49 PM

I think we can safely say that America is evil at heart.

"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."
Wildcard Since: Jun, 2012
#150624: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:41:01 PM

@Godamn, we might get the election called by a Republican senate. America might not be doomed if your middle class and white, but the bootheels will be stamping on minorities faces. Maybe now is the time to just say "Fuck it" and try to find a way to get people to what may be a better, more progressive country.

thatguythere47 Since: Jul, 2010
#150625: Nov 8th 2016 at 8:41:06 PM

As I think I mentioned here and Nate Silver cautioned, after the comey letter Clinton fell to within the margin of error and it looks like that margin was all trump. I'm guessing we can blame herding. Pollsters got a lot of small trump wins but dropped those when they saw everyone else going with minor clinton.

Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?

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