# What result would make you satisfied tomorrow? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 7, 2016, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942 "2016-11-07T12:16:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/61 "2016-11-08T04:17:46Z")
What will be fun is when Trump starts throwing blame around for his failure (because of course it can’t be his own fault). I imagine the establishment Republicans and the RNC are likely targets, but what about people closer to him like Conway, Bannon, Christie, etc? I would love to see him turn on them, and then to hear one of them really open up about what a mess Trump is. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/62 "2016-11-08T04:24:07Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > What will be fun is when Trump starts throwing blame around for his failure (because of course it can’t be his own fault). I imagine the establishment Republicans and the RNC are likely targets, but what about people closer to him like Conway, Bannon, Christie, etc? I would love to see him turn on them, and then to hear one of them really open up about what a mess Trump is. You forgot Giuliani. A Trump/Giuliani verbal war could be kinda fun to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Randvek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a6a055/32.png) [@Randvek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randvek)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/63 "2016-11-08T04:30:58Z")
Clinton as President, 50 Ds in Senate. 49 Ds in Senate would leave me with a “could have been worse” feeling, just shy of satisfaction. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/64 "2016-11-08T07:49:38Z")
49 is effectively 50. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/65 "2016-11-08T08:19:59Z")
Speaking from the UK, I’d like the US Government to start fully functioning again. So: - Hillary wins (only Russia and North Korea want Trump in. :smack:) - Democrats take the Senate. For a bonus: moderate Republicans take back their party and provide sensible opposition / government in future. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/66 "2016-11-08T12:53:44Z")
For me: Clinton wins and Dems take the senate; Trump launches his white supremacist media platform and pull his followers out of the GOP; what’s left of the GOP reforms into a sane political movement that is for fiscal responsibility, but is committed to governing. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/67 "2016-11-08T15:39:08Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > The scales fall from the eyes of the millions who voted for Trump, all of whom drop to their knees in supplication, tears streaming down their cheeks, crying “what have I done? How could I not have _seen_? Forgive… _forgive_!” I do not expect to be satisfied when I go to bed tonight, but this is what it would take: A 538-0 EV win for Hillary, a 435-0 DEM HoR, a 68-30-2 DEM majority in the Senate, and Reince Priebus announcing the disbandment of the Republican Party. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/68 "2016-11-08T15:44:20Z")
I have a recording of tumbril wheels clattering on the cobblestones as it rattles its way to the guillotine, loaded with the first installment for the recovery of our national dignity. Might help you sleep. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/69 "2016-11-08T15:48:48Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > A messy one where the process itself is viewed as illegitimate by all sides. If Trump won the popular and Clinton won the EC, that would also be good. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/70 "2016-11-08T16:12:39Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > If Trump won the popular and Clinton won the EC, that would also be good. Not likely. Trump’s base currently lives mostly in unpopulated hellholes, like Wyoming. ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/71 "2016-11-08T16:55:27Z")
I will not be satisfied with this election unless both of the two major party candidates lose. I don’t understand how anyone can look themselves in the mirror and vote for either one. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/72 "2016-11-08T16:57:23Z")
Either the police come to arrest Trump during his concession speech for all his crimes, or he becomes so completely unhinged he has to be taken away in a straitjacket. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/73 "2016-11-08T17:37:30Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > I will not be satisfied with this election unless both of the two major party candidates lose. I don’t understand how anyone can look themselves in the mirror and vote for either one. Because its my duty. Ugly choices are still choices. First voted against Nixon when Humphrey and the spineless Democrats _totally_ pissed me off. I have never not voted. I didn’t have to take a bullet for my country, a ballot every few years is a small price to pay. The reason I have to look myself in the mirror is because I can’t grow a beard for shit, so I have to shave. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/74 "2016-11-08T17:57:20Z")
Some of the commentators on NBR last night said that best is a Democrat President and Republican Congress … that a paralysed government is far less likely to fuck up the economy … ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/75 "2016-11-08T18:13:31Z")
Trump having a stroke from his apoplexy over losing. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/76 "2016-11-09T07:27:09Z")
Well, fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/77 "2016-11-09T07:30:15Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > 1. Trump loses. > 2. Clinton wins. > 3. Catherine Cortez Masto beats Joe Heck. > 4. Question 2 (Nevada) passes. > > That’s my bare minimum for this Election Day to be a net positive. Well, I got 2 out of 4. 50%. ---
**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, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942/78 "2016-11-09T09:19:57Z")
Obviously, I have a huge amount of satisfaction about the downballot situation. This was like the last two midterms, if not in making actual gains, than winning the bulk of the critical races. and all of those Republicans who dodged a bullet? their next race is a midterm. It might be 12 years before you get another real crack at Toomey, Paul, Rubio, Blunt, or Johnson. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-result-would-make-you-satisfied-tomorrow/770942.md?page=3)