# \* \* \* ! 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:** 58
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1141 "2016-11-09T04:44:19Z")
If Hillary wins all the rest of her “firewall” (including New Hampshire where she is down), AND wins Nebraska-2 (Omaha) and Maine-2, she prevails 270-268. Let’s hope for a miracle. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1142 "2016-11-09T04:44:23Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Looks like I may have picked the wrong time to move back to the US. And the wife is giving me the evil eye right now. ☹ > > One bright possibility long term for a Trump presidency is he could fuck the country up so much that even the pea-brained rednecks who voted for him will turn on the Republican Party. No chance. As I whined in the other thread, the Republicans in the Senate have done more than enough over the last 8 years to make any sane voter get rid of them, but they are almost all getting re-elected. ---
**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, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1143 "2016-11-09T04:44:39Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > True. Rural, non-college-educated America is speaking tonight. They feel disenfranchised, and unfortunately, they don’t understand how his trickle-down economics, racist immigration policies, and tax cuts for the very wealthy _will not benefit them._ They’ll realize it soon enough if Trump wins. Or at least, I hope they do. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1144 "2016-11-09T04:45:05Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > If Hillary wins all the rest of her “firewall” (including New Hampshire where she is down), AND wins Nebraska-2 (Omaha) and Maine-2, she prevails 270-268. > > Let’s hope for a miracle. Let’s not forget the possibility of faithless electors. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1145 "2016-11-09T04:45:15Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > A tie is actually a much bigger possiblility now. Which gets settled by a Republican Congress, right? ---
**Author:** ![Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pearl_Clutching_Provocateur)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1146 "2016-11-09T04:45:18Z")
The next Ronald Reagan!!! Cruz for the Supreme Court! ---
**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, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1147 "2016-11-09T04:45:33Z")
This has to be the first time in my lifetime that Utah didn’t get called before a single vote was counted. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1148 "2016-11-09T04:45:34Z")
Just feel like we all need a reminder that Trump is racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, mocks the disabled, mismanages funds, assaults women, and that it is far more important to recognize his hatefulness and fascist tendencies than his stupidity. No matter what, we can’t allow ourselves to normalize what he represents. No matter what. ---
**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, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1149 "2016-11-09T04:45:40Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > No chance. As I whined in the other thread, the Republicans in the Senate have done more than enough over the last 8 years to make any sane voter get rid of them, but they are almost all getting re-elected. Again, Trump is in a class by himself. I doubt we’ve ever seen a disaster like Trump will undoubtedly be. Not even close. ---
**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, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1150 "2016-11-09T04:46:26Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > A tie is actually a much bigger possiblility now. Yes, take a look at [this RCP map](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/live_results/2016_general/president/map.html). Assuming Trump wins Alaska and Arizona, he’s at 269. If HRC managed to hold onto the rest of her “blue wall”, she’d get to watch the House vote for Trump. ---
**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, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1151 "2016-11-09T04:46:31Z")
Why couldn’t the polls actually have been skewed four years ago? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1152 "2016-11-09T04:46:47Z")
Fox called WI for Trump. If true, I think it’s over. I’m very sad and I hope I’m wrong about Trump. I hope my conservative friends and fellow citizens will look out for and stand up for Muslims, Hispanics, and others who may be targets of an invigorated white supremacist/white nationalist movement (which Trump seemed to have greatly inspired, whether it was on purpose or not). ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1153 "2016-11-09T04:47:36Z")
BBC is just showing footage from the HRC HQ and the mood is “mom died unexpectedly and we found she did hardcore porn”. Man ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1154 "2016-11-09T04:47:39Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > A 269 tie is possible. Would be awesome to have to have the GOP go on the record and force them to publicly support Trump. Possibly not, because of Robert Satiacum, the WA faithless elector. Hillary may need 271 to win ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1155 "2016-11-09T04:47:52Z")
Rudy Giuliani just compared Trump to Andrew Jackson. Not ironically either. Andrew fucking Jackson and proud of it. Fuck. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pearl_Clutching_Provocateur)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1156 "2016-11-09T04:48:06Z")
Those polls that had Clinton as the winner need to be investigated. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1157 "2016-11-09T04:48:11Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > This time it’s a bit different, I’d say. Trump had very public backing from the racists. Which is very much not the same as “all (or even most) Trump supporters are racists”. I think that what we can glean from tonight’s results, assuming they go the way they seem to be leaning at this point, is that the citizens of this country really, _really_, REALLY hate Hillary Clinton. ---
**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, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1158 "2016-11-09T04:48:31Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Bah! A Trump presidency will make Bush’s look like extreme left wing. > > Washington state just called for Clinton. Trump is actually pretty left wing. With his protectionist economic policies. ---
**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, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1159 "2016-11-09T04:49:12Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > This has to be the first time in my lifetime that Utah didn’t get called before a single vote was counted. May as well have, the majority religion’s leaders (prophets chosen by Heavenly Father, DONTCHA KNOW) tells its followers what to do and they do it. McMullin never had a chance even as a fellow Mormon - they’ll deny each other before they’ll deny their patriarchy. I live among its results every minute of every day. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1160 "2016-11-09T04:49:14Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > They’ll realize it soon enough if Trump wins. Or at least, I hope they do. And their mortgages go upside down again due to world market crash and its economic consequences. Here comes another recession. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947.md?page=57) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947.md?page=59)