# \* \* \* ! Official 2016 US Presidential Election Day Thread ! \* \* \* **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 7, 2016, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947 "2016-11-07T14:05:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 31
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/601 "2016-11-09T02:39:58Z")
Clinton narrowing the gap in Virginia, down to less than a point. Looks like she might pull that one out, but it will be close. Then time to start sweating PA and Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/602 "2016-11-09T02:40:09Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I think I’m taking a break for a while. You guys are real downers tonight. I’ll be over on [ar15.com](http://ar15.com) reading their thoughts. Scuse us for not being thrilled our idiot countrymen think the darling of white supremacists is a good choice for running our country. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/603 "2016-11-09T02:40:17Z")
broward county is clinton’s only hope. pa is still voting. areas around philly and in philly has 1 hr. to 2 hour waits. going to be a long bumpy night. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/604 "2016-11-09T02:40:36Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > Hmm…Wang is worried he might be eating a bug soon. I’m worried that’s what we’ll all be eating in the post apocalyptic hell scape. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/605 "2016-11-09T02:41:09Z")
Does the vote in Democratic strongholds (like urban areas) traditionally come in late? ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/606 "2016-11-09T02:41:12Z")
I’m in utter shock at how close this is. ---
**Author:** ![Neo-Calredic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/96bed5/32.png) [@Neo-Calredic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neo-Calredic)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/607 "2016-11-09T02:41:26Z")
I thought it was sickening when Dubya won his second term, but if Trump actually gets in, I honestly don’t know how I can live in this country anymore. He is human garbage, and if we as a nation are too stupid, bigoted, and/or blind to see that, then we deserve him. How the fuck can I raise a daughter in a country that elected, or came this close to electing, a fucking _admitted sexual predator_? What am I supposed to tell her? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/608 "2016-11-09T02:41:27Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > There are still 80 EV on the left coast, but Hillary has certainly underestimated how much this country apparently dislikes her. That may be, but if those who were somehow uninspired because of her ridiculous ‘scandals’, they’re going to have a lot of time to think about that vote, or that non-vote. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/609 "2016-11-09T02:41:28Z")
Should I emigrate now before the rush? Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/610 "2016-11-09T02:41:41Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > 55 electoral votes in California. 55 electoral votes in California. 55 electoral votes in California… yeah but Clinton winning California is already expected. so it’s kinda meaningless ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/611 "2016-11-09T02:42:38Z")
Virginia is looking better. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/612 "2016-11-09T02:42:39Z")
CNN finally giving CT to Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/613 "2016-11-09T02:43:04Z")
Virginia is fine. She’s 24,000 votes behind with a lot of NoVA to count yet. Michigan is giving me worries. ---
**Author:** ![Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeke_N.Destroi)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/614 "2016-11-09T02:43:08Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I am? I said you guyS. I don’t know if you yourself are but collectively America is a bib-drooler with a thyroid condition. The results so far confirm this analysis. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/615 "2016-11-09T02:43:41Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > Does the vote in Democratic strongholds (like urban areas) traditionally come in late? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/616 "2016-11-09T02:44:01Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > This is bad. Hillary is maybe in trouble. The rust belt states are all under-performing. Yes, there are a lot of votes left to count but I thought she would be further ahead in those states early. > > It’s a disturbing trend. I’m wondering now about a discrepancy between voters too embarrassed to tell pollers they would be voting Trump, and then once in the privacy of the booth, pulling the trigger. I think Gary Johnson voters probably went Trump at the last minute… **which is exactly why Nate Silver pointed out that there was a lot of uncertainty in this race**. Gary Johnson’s numbers went low, and Trump’s went higher. ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/617 "2016-11-09T02:44:15Z")
> [@](#): > > yeah but Clinton winning California is already expected. so it’s kinda meaningless Agreed. It’s really only a certain set of states we hang on. VA & NC are the biggest to me. Expected Trump to get Ohio, and Florida was always a likely possibility for him. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/618 "2016-11-09T02:44:33Z")
This is crazy. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/619 "2016-11-09T02:44:46Z")
Watching NBC, it seem like Chuck Todd is about to shit his pants. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/620 "2016-11-09T02:45:23Z")
> [@Neo-Calredic](#): > > How the fuck can I raise a daughter in a country that elected, or came this close to electing, a fucking _admitted sexual predator_? What am I supposed to tell her? ☹ I have read all the threads here, and the blogs elsewhere, and have yet to see a cogent explanation for why the sonofabitch was seemingly immune to any and all sorts of scandals and revelations. If Nixon had had just one of those happen to him years ago he would have gotten 10% of the vote. If a candidate is so _utterly_ bulletproof in that way, where no matter what he says or does virtually nobody abandons him, I simply have no explanation. At all. 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947.md?page=32)