It's a good job our politicians haven't spent the last two years calling him and an idiot and a cunt...Originally Posted by ItalAussie
Markets are tanking.
I reckon Trump's got this, and it'll go down in Michigan. It's certainly not going to be boring.
I reckon that's a bit of an overcorrection. It's still close. I'd have Clinton at 2.5.
She's getting everything she needs in the west by the looks of things, so it's going to come down to New Hampshire/Pennsylvania/Michigan. Possibly Wisconsin and Minnesota, which nobody is talking about yet, but probably ought to be, given the high rural voter turnout.
Some people in work laughed at me when I said I was taking today/tomorrow off so I could stay up all night watching this but there's nothing quite like the excitement of an election night.
The concession/victory speeches will be the funniest things in world history.
Why are those sad plebs crying at 'Clinton HQ'?
In fairness, if they're there, they've probably invested a serious amount of time and effort in the leadup to the election. That's got to feel like a hell of a waste if you lose.
It'd be a bit lame if you're crying on your couch at home, but if you put in that much, you're pretty involved.
That purple woman on the Beeb was the definition of delusional.
They will be bealing because, rather than mourning their wasted afternoons, they will have genuinely convinced themselves that this is 1933.
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So can we accept that the polls are run by a bunch of liberal hacks at this stage?
So, 2016. What a shit year.
It's a shame you bottled it earlier tonight mert. Stick to your guns lad.
I doubt it was deliberate underpolling of rural voters.
They pretty much imploded their business model, which they can't have been trying to do. Being as they'd like to have jobs tomorrow.
For what it's worth most of the Virginians I know (who are generally moderate to center-left) voted Trump, and told me that there was very little turnout (in deep blue Northern Virginia). It could happen.If Clinton doesn't flip Virginia, you may as well all go to bed.
Look how beautiful it looks:
http://www.nytimes.com/elections/forecast/president
Burn it all down
If by shit you mean great, then I wholeheartedly agree.So, 2016. What a shit year.
It's actually been really good for me on a personal level.
Apparently my life fortunes inversely correlate with celebrity misfortunes.
Ohio's gone.
Yev - the Beeb seem to be well behind on everything. Both Sky News and CNN are live streaming in YouTube if you fancy more upto date info, albeit presenting by way of flying holograms sponsored by Geiko.
God, we're going to have to listen to more of his stilted speeches. Bigly's going to become an actual thing.
As long as someone gets it into his head that nukes are a bad, bad thing, it won't do too much damage in the big scheme of things. Not for the rest of us, anyway.
Cheers John, I'll stick to Brillo though.
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I'm going to black out.
Thank you God.
It's weird to me that it takes them so long to count New Hampshire. They've done 99% of Florida already, and New Hampshire is smaller and closes earlier.
I can tolerate a lot of the 'lol murica' stuff but the religious nuts still look mental however hard I try.
Maybe he'll have the FBI storm in to arrest Hillary when she's giving her concession speech.
Michigan's tightening, because of course it is.
83% chance according to NYT.
Don't bottle this now.
@Lewis, our hats have been ordered
They've counted most of Milwaukee and Clinton's still behind in Wisconsin. That'll do it, I reckon.
I imagine the lesson that'll get taken from this election is that years of obvious corporate influence leads to massive disaffection in the places that have to eat it when jobs get moved elsewhere. Same thing that was probably in play with Brexit, I'd guess.
@Lewis, our hats have been ordered
Who is going to Facebook/text Spoonsky a 'u okay hun?'
I wonder what all those rural voters will do when Trump doesn't bring any jobs back.
I also wonder if Democrats will actually learn anything from this at all.
That's amazing.
It's been months and I still can't believe that he retweeted a pepe himself.
Next time, get more celebrities involved.
It's easy to say things in retrospect, but the way Jeb! tanked should probably have set off some alarm bells somewhere, in terms of establishment candidates.
I wonder if we're going to get a realignment out of this. Midwest turning solid red, possibly as a trade for some of the more racially-diverse southern states next go around.
Someone get me a live stream of John Oliver's face.
The protest vote line being wheeled out again. It's starting.
Depends how solidly the Midwest sticks with Trump if nothing improves I think.
Facebook already flaring up.
Is Trump winning Florida as massive as I think it is? He's basically over the line at this point.
He's won/going to win, that much is pretty clear.
Not really. Him probably winning Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania is what's going to give him the election. Florida isn't really relevant, except in that it confirmed a Clinton rout definitely wasn't on.
Basically means Clinton can't afford any more lost ground in blue/swing states in which she's favoured if I'm understanding this right. Which if the rest of the results are anything to go by leaves her fucked.
Senate is basically done, Republicans will keep control even if Trump does lose.
http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/
Michael Moore, a few months back, on why Trump would win. Quite a good read.
And this is where the math comes in. In 2012, Mitt Romney lost by 64 electoral votes. Add up the electoral votes cast by Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It’s 64. All Trump needs to do to win is to carry, as he’s expected to do, the swath of traditional red states from Idaho to Georgia (states that’ll never vote for Hillary Clinton), and then he just needs these four rust belt states. He doesn’t need Florida. He doesn’t need Colorado or Virginia. Just Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. And that will put him over the top. This is how it will happen in November.
Bernie would have walked this. Gonna go kill myself I guess.
Jesus Christ they've actually voted him in
What a great year for the liberal elite.
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