# \* \* \* ! 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:** 51
**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, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1001 "2016-11-09T04:15:49Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I wonder how Huma is feeling right now. Probably that some weiner is going to get cut off. ---
**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, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1002 "2016-11-09T04:16:01Z")
Trump has won Florida. They just haven’t called it yet. Folks, it’s fucking over. President Trump. ---
**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, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1003 "2016-11-09T04:16:05Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Michigan is going to come down to Wayne and Washtenaw against Macomb +20k lead > > Should be interesting. Sonofabitch. I live in Macomb. Look, I _voted._ ---
**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, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1004 "2016-11-09T04:16:22Z")
> [@choie](#): > > I can’t deal with people who are like YAY CALIFORNIA!!! OMG! LOOK AT ALL THE VOTES! > > California doesn’t matter. We all know she was going to win California. Do you people not understand how elections work?! The only states that matter right now are the “swing” states, and they’re all breaking for Trump. MI, WI, FL, PA, NH. > > This country makes me ill. It’s 55 Electoral votes, dude!! It’s, like, our gift to the country. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1005 "2016-11-09T04:16:33Z")
This is far from over, folks. ---
**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, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1006 "2016-11-09T04:16:36Z")
How much will Comey be brought up post-election? ---
**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, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1007 "2016-11-09T04:16:40Z")
So, uh, who won our Predict-the-Election SDMB contest…? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1008 "2016-11-09T04:16:45Z")
Dear Australia, When Trump makes homosexuality a crime again, will I qualify for asylum? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1009 "2016-11-09T04:17:13Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Will those who predicted a Clinton solid victory or mini-landslide admit they spent a bit too much time in their bubble? I refer you to my PM. ---
**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, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1010 "2016-11-09T04:17:35Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > Wow I didn’t even realize Washington state was in contention but trump is currently leading there. That quite surprises me, barfedly so. ---
**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, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1011 "2016-11-09T04:17:39Z")
> [@](#): > > This is far from over, folks. Still watching for a few states that aren’t settled yet. ---
**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, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1012 "2016-11-09T04:17:40Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Dear Australia, > > When Trump makes homosexuality a crime again, will I qualify for asylum? Probably, just arrive by air. You just won’t be able to get married (yet). ---
**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, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1013 "2016-11-09T04:17:50Z")
Black American Woman on CBC is saying “this is white supremacy’s last stand. This is Jim Crow 2.0. This is poor uneducated white men.” Isn’t a last stand, by definition, a losing fight? This is possibly left-wing America’s last stand. This is not only not the last stand of white supremacy. This is it’s legitimization. This is it’s exoneration. This is where - win or lose - the democrats will have to nut up and swing way left (you know like soviet Canuckistan) or cop to having no value save for the desire for power. My bet is they don’t join the Union of Northern Soviet Republics. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1014 "2016-11-09T04:17:55Z")
Oregon just called for Clinton by CNN, four of Nebraska’s five for Trump. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1015 "2016-11-09T04:18:10Z")
It’s pretty arrogant to assume that a vote for third party would have automatically gone for Clinton. Like she is owed a vote she didn’t earn. ---
**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, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1016 "2016-11-09T04:18:13Z")
Election 2016. The Re-birth of a Nation. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1017 "2016-11-09T04:18:16Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I hope all those fuckers who threw their votes away on Gary Johnson “on principle” are happy. Well… in SC. Didn’t really matter. I am resigned to being horrified tonight, whether Trump or Clinton win. ---
**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, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1018 "2016-11-09T04:18:19Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > California was always in the bag for Clinton. > > The running total of electoral college votes, now, is effectively meaningless unless and until it includes definitive results for key battleground states like North Carolina (just called for Trump), Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Florida. As Silver pointed out, Clinton ran up huge wins in states like Massachusetts, New York and Maryland. All of which, like the huge win she will get in California, is pretty much millions of excess votes meaning very little. Meanwhile for want of 100,000 votes out of millions cast in Florida, the state is lost and with it possibly the election. ---
**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, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1019 "2016-11-09T04:18:21Z")
Fuck. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1020 "2016-11-09T04:18:32Z")
> [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](#): > > This is a wonderful night! Make America Great Again! How, exactly? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947.md?page=50) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947.md?page=52)