# \* \* \* ! 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:** 52
**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, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1021 "2016-11-09T04:18:38Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > But I don’t **want** to live in a Third-World country! Or a Third Reich 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, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1022 "2016-11-09T04:18:46Z")
I’m going to do my part. I predict that Trump will win Michigan! Doing the best I can, folks. ---
**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, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1023 "2016-11-09T04:19:00Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > This is far from over, folks. It isn’t? ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1024 "2016-11-09T04:19:18Z")
CBC news just reported that Citizen and Immigration Canada’s website has crashed due to too many hits. Seriously…not a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1025 "2016-11-09T04:19:24Z")
I’m not gonna say anything until it’s over. But Holy hell if Trump wins…! I took my lumps here four years ago. You can bet I’m gonna return the favor. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1026 "2016-11-09T04:19:31Z")
You can back Hillary at 25/1 against now. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1027 "2016-11-09T04:19:59Z")
In other news, the Canadian immigration web-page began crashing periodically from 10 Eastern Time. > **[Canada's Immigration Site Keeps Crashing For Some Reason](https://gizmodo.com/canadas-immigration-site-keeps-crashing-for-some-reason-1788731483)** > > As news agencies called more and more states for Donald Trump Tuesday evening, Canada’s informational website on immigration and citizenship began experiencing repeated outages, presumably due to a surge in traffic. Wonder why. ---
**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, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1028 "2016-11-09T04:20:20Z")
Don’t blame the third parties. It has been understood going back months that the third party candidates would take more votes than the margin of victory for whichever candidate won. No point in bitching about it now. Plus poor candidate quality leads to high third party voting. Pick better candidates, party faithful. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1029 "2016-11-09T04:20:27Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I hope all those fuckers who threw their votes away on Gary Johnson “on principle” are happy. The DNC did this, not the voters. The DNC made backroom deals to get the insider candidate pushed through, and now they’re paying the price. Hopefully this leads to some soul searching in the Democratic party. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1030 "2016-11-09T04:20:31Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I just heard that Clinton is underperforming relative to Obama among Hispanics. How is that even possible? What does Trump have that could possibly appeal to Hispanics? Trump has absolutely nothing to appeal to Hispanics. Unfortunately, neither does Clinton; her strongly socially progressive platform is an anathema to the inherent conservatism of the predominately Roman Catholic Hispanic population. Hispanics are probably not voting, and other ethnicities are also probably refraining from voting for either candidate. Basically, both parties have selected candidates that are polarizing and alienate traditional swing voting blocks. > [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Will those who predicted a Clinton solid victory or mini-landslide admit they spent a bit too much time in their bubble? Who has predicted a landslide for Clinton since the primaries? The majority of states were already strongly to one candidate or the other with just four or five states with any significant number of electoral votes up for grabs. > [@John\_Mace](#): > > Keep in mind that so far, no real surprises. This is exactly right. Every state that has so far gone to Trump was projected to go to Trump, and every state that was projected to go to Clinton has gone her way, plus a couple of (largely irrelevant) contested states. Ohio was always going to go to Trump. George will go to Trump. North Carolina will probably go to Trump. Many of the contested or too close to call states still don’t have enough ballots counted across demographics to project the outcome. As others have noted, the [FiveThirtyEight.com](http://FiveThirtyEight.com) live updates are weighing the counted votes, and you can see from a map that the entire middle section of the country up to the Sierras and not touching the Great Lakes was going to go to Trump except for Colorado and New Mexico (and maybe Nevada), while the last 74 electoral votes of the Pacific states will go to Clinton, a projection known and accepted by both sides since the beginning of the campaign. That innately skews the “live” model even though it isn’t meaningful. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1031 "2016-11-09T04:20:33Z")
Here comes the break in MI. I’m telling you, relax. ---
**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, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1032 "2016-11-09T04:20:39Z")
Nevada is looking good for Clinton right now. ---
**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, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1033 "2016-11-09T04:20:51Z")
Trump’s lead in Michigan has dropped drastically. It’s at less than 1% now. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1034 "2016-11-09T04:21:00Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Western states coming in, complete turnaround. > > MSNBC: Clinton 209 - Trump 172 May not be enough. I’ve lost my faith in fellow Americans. At least Colorado and Illinois did the right thing. My home States. ---
**Author:** ![Billy-o](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Billy-o](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy-o)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1035 "2016-11-09T04:21:01Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Election 2016. > > The Re-birth of a Nation. The Afterbirth, more likely. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1036 "2016-11-09T04:21:21Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > If 2000 had not happened, would this have been called for Trump already? > [@BlankSlate](#): > > The networks would already have called this election if 2000 hadn’t happened. Also: ratings and ad revenue. ☹ ---
**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, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1037 "2016-11-09T04:21:53Z")
The polls are closed everywhere except Alaska now. ---
**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, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1038 "2016-11-09T04:22:17Z")
Bayh failed, looks like Feingold will fail too. Bayh doesn’t surprise me but I figured Feingold was sure to beat Johnson, who is way too conservative for Wisconsin. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1039 "2016-11-09T04:22:19Z")
> [@Mosier](#): > > The DNC did this, not the voters. The DNC made backroom deals to get the insider candidate pushed through, and now they’re paying the price. Hopefully this leads to some soul searching in the Democratic party. “Now, where did I leave that? Damn, I think Jimmy Carter might have borrowed it…do you think it would be in poor taste to ask for it back right now?” Stranger ---
**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, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1040 "2016-11-09T04:23:16Z")
On a more positive note folks, thanks for keeping me updated during the post-election count. It’s still mid-arvo here in Australia, and while the telly is doing it’s best I’ve found YOUR postings and commentary far more up-to-date and informative. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947.md?page=51) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947.md?page=53)