# \* \* \* ! 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:** 40
**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, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/781 "2016-11-09T03:25:59Z")
Still too early to panic. Clinton needs to hold in PA, MI and WI and pick up Nevada OR New Hampshire, none of which is currently ruled out. She has not lost yet. ---
**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, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/782 "2016-11-09T03:26:05Z")
VA for Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/783 "2016-11-09T03:26:12Z")
FOX News just called Colorado for HRC. That’s a good sign for her. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/784 "2016-11-09T03:26:22Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > 78% likely to be Trump. 82% ([PredictWise](http://predictwise.com/politics/2016-president-winner#Link10)) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/785 "2016-11-09T03:26:28Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > The people in this thread who seem to be incapable of recognizing things like “different parts of states vote in different ways” need to look at the maps and stop hyperventilating. Lord. You know that the pollsters and betting markets take that into account, right? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/786 "2016-11-09T03:26:35Z")
Virginia goes blue! 🙂 ---
**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, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/787 "2016-11-09T03:26:37Z")
NBC calls VA for Clinton! ---
**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, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/788 "2016-11-09T03:26:42Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > …I simply cannot imagine myself thinking like that… But surely you know you aren’t an appropriate model to use when drawing a picture of all (or even most) Americans? Why would you think that? > [@standingwave](#): > > Why, he could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and he wouldn’t lose voters. Right. Trump has great instincts. He knew early on that he was the wild bull in a china shop candidate and that behaving like a wild bull wouldn’t hurt him. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/789 "2016-11-09T03:26:50Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > VA for Clinton. Yes! MSNBC just projected that. Where is your’s from? ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/790 "2016-11-09T03:27:09Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Is this how Brits felt with Brexit? Yes. As a Brit who has recently taken US citizenship, this is a sickeningly familiar feeling. How can my fellow voters be so dumb? ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/791 "2016-11-09T03:27:31Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’m buying stocks in companies that specialize in gold plating plumbing fixtures. I am buying stock in companies that make bricks for walls. CNN called Ohio for Trump. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/792 "2016-11-09T03:27:42Z")
But 538 now has Trump at 55% chance of winning the Electoral College ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/793 "2016-11-09T03:27:44Z")
Really? PBS just called Clinton winning Virginia by 1%? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/794 "2016-11-09T03:28:01Z")
So, maybe the “shy Trump voter” poll/survey theory was right after all? ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/795 "2016-11-09T03:28:03Z")
538 has trump at 55%. I have to listen to my dad more. ---
**Author:** ![Lantern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lantern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/796 "2016-11-09T03:28:04Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > The people in this thread who seem to be incapable of recognizing things like “different parts of states vote in different ways” need to look at the maps and stop hyperventilating. Lord. Yeah that’s not it. It’s quite easy to control for this and the smart money has already done it. Trump is now at 82% on Predictwise. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/797 "2016-11-09T03:28:32Z")
I’m not sure who to be more disgusted by, the disgusting assholes who crawled from their holes to vote for an ambulatory sack of excrement, or the apathetic assholes who couldn’t be bothered to make sure the worst human our country has ever created didn’t become president. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/798 "2016-11-09T03:28:37Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Virginia goes blue! 🙂 Is it too little too late, though? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/799 "2016-11-09T03:29:06Z")
Never mind… ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/800 "2016-11-09T03:29:07Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > So, maybe the “shy Trump voter” poll/survey theory was right after all? Maybe this is me projecting, but I honestly thought people would have a last second epiphany and vote Clinton/3rd Party instead of Trump. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947.md?page=39) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947.md?page=41)