# \* \* \* ! Official 2016 US Presidential Election Day Thread ! \* \* \*

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**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")\
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**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 10, 2016, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-2016-us-presidential-election-day-thread/770947/1752 "2016-11-10T13:24:16Z")

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I claim bragging rights for successfully predicting this election months ago:

> [@More frightening than Trump](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-frightening-than-trump/761470/31):
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> As someone else pointed out, the suspense is over whether Trump gets 27% of the vote to Hillary’s 28% or vice versa. (Trump and Clinton are fighting over 2nd place. Did\_Not\_Vote will come in 1st, as it has in every election since FDR’s 1936 landslide. — LBJ _almost_ beat Did\_Not\_Vote in 1964.)
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> Although the votes of the 2% “on the fence” are supremely important it seems silly to use them as the basis for a headline:  
> \*Americans go Bat-shit; elect ignorant demagogue!_or_Sanity Prevails; America rejects fascism and racism!\*when the question is whether 28% vote bat-shit, or only 27%.

And sure enough, Didn’t\_Bother won in another landslide. Here are the final totals:  
44.4% Didn’t bother to vote (includes ~1% thwarted by GOP suppression)  
26.5% Hillary  
26.4% Trump  
01.8% Johnson  
00.5% Stein  
00.2% McMullin  
00.1% Castle  
00.1% Other

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