# \* \* \* ! 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:** 33
**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, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/641 "2016-11-09T02:52:30Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > I just woke up. Trump might win? > > Ohio had always had the reputation of being progressive. How the hell is Trump winning there. What? No, Ohio is not progressive. ---
**Author:** ![Sterling\_Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Sterling\_Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterling_Archer)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/642 "2016-11-09T02:52:41Z")
CNN really needs a different color for projected states vs states that haven’t been called but are leaning a certain way ---
**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, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/643 "2016-11-09T02:52:53Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Uh, I don’t think you understand where that referendum took place. Umm, I’m pretty sure I do. I voted in it. Charlottetown (sp) Accord chuckles. Remember “My Canada includes Quebec”? There were other issues but you wouldn’t know it. Excuse me for oversimplifying in reference to a 2 decade old near miss in Canadian politics unknown to most Americans in order to make a point about near misses. Fucks sake buddy, Trump is threatening to win and you want to quibble about technicalities? That’s not very Canadian. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/644 "2016-11-09T02:53:06Z")
The Times now has Trump winning at 59% :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/645 "2016-11-09T02:53:07Z")
I feel like I have to write a letter of apology to the world for what America has done and will do for the next 4 years. We’ve got to start working tomorrow on getting this bastard out of office. ---
**Author:** ![truthSeeker2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7cd45c/32.png) [@truthSeeker2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/truthSeeker2)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/646 "2016-11-09T02:53:09Z")
People should have been less disrespectful for trump n his supporters. Ur disrespect made them more determined to beat u. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/647 "2016-11-09T02:53:25Z")
Oh America, my heart goes out to you. Kam…glued to her Aussie telly watching the tragedy unfold. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/648 "2016-11-09T02:53:32Z")
VA!!! Keep going. ---
**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, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/649 "2016-11-09T02:53:51Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > Does the vote in Democratic strongholds (like urban areas) traditionally come in late? yes, higher populations cause the polls to run late. the polls closed at 8pm here in pa, people are still in line voting. ---
**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, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/650 "2016-11-09T02:54:35Z")
It would be interesting if Utah goes Mcmullin. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/651 "2016-11-09T02:54:38Z")
Oh hallefuckinglujah, Virginia just jumped up to Clinton (slightly). ---
**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, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/652 "2016-11-09T02:54:58Z")
> [@Neo-Calredic](#): > > 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? ☹ That she has the privilege of living through the decline of Rome II ---
**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, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/653 "2016-11-09T02:55:20Z")
Virginia isn’t over, Virginia isn’t over. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/654 "2016-11-09T02:55:30Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > I don’t feel like she’s been overconfident; I don’t think she underestimated. She never suggested she had it in the bag. > > I think if she goes down it will be pollsters who underestimated. They underestimated the extent to which people would vote based on their primal instincts, but were so embarrassed by their primal instincts they weren’t prepared to admit it even to a pollster. I think you might be on to something here. ---
**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, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/655 "2016-11-09T02:55:35Z")
Clinton now has a narrow lead in VA. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/656 "2016-11-09T02:55:40Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > The thing about Michigan is that Wayne county(Detroit) is large,overwhelmingly Dem, and overwhelmingly unorganized. Um, yeah, the thing about that… > [@](#): > > Clinton is leading by only a percentage point in Wayne County, Michigan. That’s a county Obama won by 48 percentage points. Either that result is wrong, a lot of the vote in Detroit (which is in Wayne County) is out, or the map is looking very different than it used to. I’m in neighboring Macomb County, I live about 15 miles north of Detroit. Fucking _weird._ ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/657 "2016-11-09T02:56:08Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Oh America, my heart goes out to you. > > Kam…glued to her Aussie telly watching the tragedy unfold. 😕 On the up side for Australia, after electing Abbott, if Trump wins we’ll be able to point at US politics and laugh again. ---
**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, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/658 "2016-11-09T02:56:10Z")
Wayne county in Michigan is way too close so far. Obama took that one more than 2-1, Clinton is barely leading. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/659 "2016-11-09T02:56:19Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > 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. 😕 In previous years a primary plank of candidates’ pitches on both sides have been that they are solid, respectable, virtuous etc. So scandals lost them votes vis a vis their opponent. Trump has never run on that basis. He has run on the basis that he is a wild bull in a china shop that badly needs remodelling and you should vote for him for that reason. You don’t withdraw your vote from a wild bull merely because it shits on the floor and mounts cows whether they like it or not. That’s what wild bulls do. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/660 "2016-11-09T02:56:44Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > yes, higher populations cause the polls to run late. the polls closed at 8pm here in pa, people are still in line voting. Same in Michigan, reports people are still in line. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947.md?page=34)