# \* \* \* ! 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:** 72
**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, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1421 "2016-11-09T05:57:54Z")
> [@coremelt](#): > > It’s not over until one party concedes. Let’s hope that the dems are already looking for every single possibility for investigation of voter intimidation or irregularities that can be challenged in court or might call for a recount. If the situation was reversed thats exactly what would be happening. There is simply too much at stake for not fighting as long as possible. No. God. Let us not be whiny like Trump, obstructionist like the GOP, or immature when we don’t get our way. No. The children need at least some adult role models. ---
**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, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1422 "2016-11-09T05:58:11Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > [This is about the only possibility](http://www.270towin.com/maps/OpLgG) for a Clinton win that I can see. Interesting map. HRC is down by 3% in Arizona, with 70% of precincts reporting. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1423 "2016-11-09T05:58:17Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > But to be honest, I expected better of you. I’ve always looked UP to you, America, as a guiding light. And now you have succumbed to the same fear-mongering as much of the rest of the western world. Well, that’s part of the problem, and the part of “American Exceptionalism” I refuse to accept. The US of A is just one more country just like you and I are just one more human being. NO country nor person on this Earth today is “the chosen one” that is exempted from the failings of mortal flesh. None. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1424 "2016-11-09T05:58:47Z")
Y’all know what’s going to happen to any and/or all of the investigations into Trump’s business and personal doings, right? This guy has been Mr. “Dirty Tricks” for almost his whole life-He is going to make Nixon look like Jimmy Carter. ---
**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, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1425 "2016-11-09T05:59:57Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > A couple blue counties north of Philly still counting. Which ones? ---
**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, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1426 "2016-11-09T06:00:15Z")
Regardless of what you think or who you wanted to win, this is one for the history books. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1427 "2016-11-09T06:00:15Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > But Trump wasn’t on his side. The (R) next to his name is nothing more than a convenience, a way of getting nominated. A large part of the Republican Party repudiated him, including arguably the most powerful of them (Paul Ryan). Trump owes them nothing. He’s a loose cannon. > > Now, you may say that he took the worst aspects of the party and embraced them, and I’d agree with you on that. But that isn’t the same as saying he’s **Bricker** ’s boy. > > I said a while back that if Hillary couldn’t get enough people to vote for her over the obvious menace that Trimp is it was all on her. So it came to pass. She somehow screwed up an election that she couldn’t lose, and it falls on the Democrats to look inward and figure out why rather than lashing out at the people Hillary clearly caused to turn away and vote for a lunatic. I think you gravely underestimate the antipathy for her, and the tactics the Democratic Party used to rig her nomination. “The guy” refers to the guy he was talking to, not Trump. Bricker was anti-Trump, too. ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1428 "2016-11-09T06:00:50Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > No. God. Let us not be whiny like Trump, obstructionist like the GOP, or immature when we don’t get our way. No. The children need at least some adult role models. Fuck that. This is not a landslide in Trump’s favour. If he does win it’s by incredibly narrow margins in a few key states, and he may lose the popular vote. Absolutely every single irregularity should be looked at and Clinton should not concede until that happens. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1429 "2016-11-09T06:00:54Z")
Before it’s too late, it’s time to bring out the old-school election day shenanigans. I want to see 10,000 dead people voting in Philadelphia. I want busloads of illegal immigrants voting in Michigan. Dammit, they accuse the Democrats of this shit all the time, they might as well profit from it. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1430 "2016-11-09T06:01:02Z")
Well, I go back to Taiwan Thursday with a heavy heart. This isn’t my country. ---
**Author:** ![snowmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@snowmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowmaster)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1431 "2016-11-09T06:01:40Z")
New Hampshire now within 100 votes. Recount? ---
**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, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1432 "2016-11-09T06:02:06Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Well, that’s part of the problem, and the part of “American Exceptionalism” I refuse to accept. The US of A is just one more country just like you and I are just one more human being. NO country nor person on this Earth today is “the chosen one” that is exempted from the failings of mortal flesh. > > None. OTOH, it takes a lot of courage to vote to become the rest of the worlds’ punchline for the next four years. ---
**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, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1433 "2016-11-09T06:02:12Z")
Alaska is too close to call? What’s up with that? ---
**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, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1434 "2016-11-09T06:02:16Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > Regardless of what you think or who you wanted to win, this is one for the history books. Yes, this is a date which will live in infamy. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1435 "2016-11-09T06:02:22Z")
> [@coremelt](#): > > Fuck that. This is not a landslide in Trump’s favour. If he does win it’s by incredibly narrow margins in a few key states, and he may lose the popular vote. Absolutely every single irregularity should be looked at and Clinton should not concede until that happens. Elections have consequences, but the Democrats should filibuster the first nominee unless it’s Garland. ---
**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, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1436 "2016-11-09T06:03:00Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Which ones? Bucks and Lehigh have the most to go. Other counties in greater Philly area at around 98% so the window is nearly closed by now. ---
**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, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1437 "2016-11-09T06:03:00Z")
Alphaboi signing out. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1438 "2016-11-09T06:04:09Z")
I hope there is a thorough check to make sure everything was above board. I don’t really believe anything dodgy was at work, but it’s such a surprising result it surely warrants investigation. ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1439 "2016-11-09T06:04:12Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Elections have consequences, but the Democrats should filibuster the first nominee unless it’s Garland. And I’m not saying that the election should not have consequences, I’m saying that when it’s this close every single thing needs to be looked at for irregularities. ---
**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, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1440 "2016-11-09T06:05:38Z")
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