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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
It's still not over, we're waiting on the end of Wisconsin and Michigan. Plus we have unconfirmed reports of big uncounted votes in North Carolina and people still waiting to vote in other states.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranIndiana, 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, Georgia
Vermont, Massachussetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia, Rhode Island, Illinois, New York, Connecticut, New Mexico, Virginia, Colorado, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington
Michigan, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania
Maine, Minnesota, Nevada
- Removing Democratic strongholds, Trump would need 28 States.
-
North Carolina extending voting time in 8 precincts -
New Jersey announced Democratas soon as voting closed, as votes are being counted it currently stands Republicanlead [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.
- Clinton tweets "thank you for everything"; Democratic HQ in silence
- Mexican peso crashes
- Michigan, New Hampshire, too close to call
- Nebraska District 2, too close to call
- Senate: +1 -1
- House: +2 -2
Electoral College:
Clinton 222 | 254 Trump
Updates:
- Pennsylvania takes Republican lead
edited 8th Nov '16 9:11:22 PM by lakingsif
OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!The Immigration Canada website just crashed
. I thought you guys moving here was a figure of speech?
Don't wanna sound Anti-American (I love you guys) but I can think of way worse the USA did in its history.
I mean, you re-elected the guy who got you into a war under false pretense a mere 12 years ago... so I mean, there's a history of bad choices there.
Let's say for a second that Sanders one the Primaries and actually defeated Trump. He'd still have to contend with a both a Senate and a House that are predominantly GOP. As feel good as his ambitions were, he would not be able to get anything done in those circumstances.
Well shit, as a Puerto Rican/Ecuadorian I can't help but be worried. Worried for my personal safety because someone is going to confuse me with a Mexican.
And in a weird way, I get it.
People felt like the 1% had been screwing them over for years now economically, corruption had become a daily news item politically, and seeming pillars of society have been torn down socially in favor of political correctness. This terrifies people and they were desperate to reverse the trend.
Now I don't think Trump is the person you want doing that...at all...but it makes sense from that perspective.
I find myself sympathizing with Sadiq and the Engineers from Splinter Cell: Blacklist now.
The core of it is manufacturing and retail jobs. To these people, you cannot have a functioning economy without a sufficient number of them, with those jobs available to the middle class. The racism comes in when you realize the middle class is currently majority white, so it becomes about making sure people who are not part of the American middle class will not "steal" those job openings.
While there are also more fringe positions like evangelism, that's the nasty root of the voter base that has basically elected Trump at this point.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)the notorious RBG is spite personified.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?Clinton isn't going to come back. Hope the first step on the road to disappointment.
America shit the bed and elected a white nationalist with no coherent policy beyond literally everything that is wrong with modern politics. I hope humanity can live with it.
edited 8th Nov '16 9:14:05 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.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, Georgia
Vermont, Massachussetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia, Rhode Island, Illinois, New York, Connecticut, New Mexico, Virginia, Colorado, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington
Michigan, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania
Maine, Minnesota, Nevada
Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Hampshire
- Removing Democratic strongholds, Trump would need 28 States.
-
North Carolina extending voting time in 8 precincts -
New Jersey announced Democratas soon as voting closed, as votes are being counted it currently stands Republicanlead [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.
- Clinton tweets "thank you for everything"; Democratic HQ in silence
- Mexican peso crashes
- Michigan, New Hampshire, too close to call
- Nebraska District 2, too close to call
- Senate: +1 -1
- House: +2 -2
Electoral College:
Clinton 222 | 254 Trump
Updates:
- Trump's biggest demo. in Mid West "white women"

If Trump wins and repeals Obamacare, insurance companies will be able to turn my mom away again because she has a preexisting condition.
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