LIVE CHAT: Election Night 2016 (11/8/2016)

[Rapunzel]

Yes - Rachel Maddow just said what I posted earlier - Hillary doesn't HAVE to win FL, but Trump MUST.

[hoosier80]

I feel sick to my stomach.  Going to bed.  Saying tons of prayers.  

Just played with 270 to win.  If she gets VA, MI, NH = 270.  Please, God.  That's with PA I think (plus NY, CA, and the other sure wins).

[Kromm]

1 minute ago, scout305 said:

I'm not worried about Ohio or even Florida as long as we win PA and VA!!!!  The firewall HAS to hold up. That is the key

PA is assumed for Clinton I think.

Of the other three (Ohio, Florida and Virginia) she only needs any ONE of them (or alternately NC or AZ, I believe).

The problem so far is that DumpTruck is leading in ALL of those so far. Then again, if she only has to win ONE of them...

[theredhead77]

My friend said there are 3 hour lines at the polls in UT. I'm more anxious about FL flip flopping and currently pissed the fuck off at Gary Johnson and Jill Stein for attempting to be third party. I will blame them and their supporters if Trump wins.

[Kromm]

One thing is CERTAIN.

Nobody is going to give a concession speech tonight.

If Clinton wins, it will because she won a battleground state (and maybe only a single one).

If Trump wins, it will be because he denied her even one of those.

Either way, it's going to come down to a small number of votes in a single state somewhere.

[Spartan Girl]

I can't do this. I think I'm going to go to bed and try to sleep. If I stay up I'm just going to drive myself crazy.

I know this isn't "going high" but fuck Trump and his supporters. No matter what the outcome is.

[debbie311]

OMG.  I wish I didn't care.  :(

[Rapunzel]

1 minute ago, NextIteration said:

That's what happens - Minnesota embraces third parties - and guess how Michele Bachmann kept winning?

I thought it was because of the flower shops - which I always used to love going to when I grew up in MN, and still like to go to when I go back to visit my family.  :-) 

[Kromm]

4 minutes ago, theredhead77 said:

My friend said there are 3 hour lines at the polls in UT. I'm more anxious about FL flip flopping and currently pissed the fuck off at Gary Johnson and Jill Stein for attempting to be third party. I will blame them and their supporters if Trump wins.

Two words.

North Carolina.

Don't just be mad. Be FURIOUS.

 

 

Literally that's the election there (given how Trump seems to be leading in every swing state). But NC would have been enough. If Johnson's voters weren't skewing it.

Fucking protest voters.

Edited November 9, 2016 by Kromm

[MulletorHater]

I'm going to bed also.  I can't.

[Grommet]

This is the point in the Syracuse basketball game when I decide I don't care about sports and start cleaning my house.

[Aquarius]

How can this be happening??

How could any thinking person watch this campaign and vote Trump?

How??

[kittykat]

Dear Canada,

We're only 150 miles south of you, annex us.

Love,

 the city of Seattle (and whoever else wants in)

[Hudson0325]

Fuck Fuck Fuck Virginia!

[WhitneyWhit]

He's going to win this, isn't he?

[HumblePi]

Just now, kittykat said:

Dear Canada,

We're only 150 miles south of you, annex us.

Love,

 the city of Seattle (and whoever else wants in)

Canada will start building a wall tomorrow to keep all of us out.

[Silly Angel]

I guarantee you at least 80% of voting-age Americans are drunk as hell right now.

Watching John King and Wolf Blitzer talk me through it on CNN and I still want very much to throw up.

[Kromm]

1 minute ago, Aquarius said:

How can this be happening??

How could any thinking person watch this campaign and vote Trump?

How??

I keep telling myself she only needs one swing state (even Arizona).

Then I see he's leading by 2 or 3% in every fucking one of them.

I am too poor to arrange to move to another country. Even Canada!

[Dancingjaneway]

I can't believe Donald Trump is going to be our fucking president. 

[Quilt Fairy]

8 minutes ago, muessigkeit said:

Since you guys are all so frustrated by Florida's flip flopping might I suggest an exchange with Bavaria? Bavarians are ultra conservative nitwits but at least they're very consistent about it. Think about the offer; no need to hurry. As long as the deal's done before our general elections next September we're good.

Eh, my Prussian grandfather used to say that all Bavarians are good for is drinking beer.

[Aquarius]

I can't fucking believe this.

I just can't fucking believe it.

[magdalene]

I can't believe this is happening. 

[WendyCR72]

I seriously want to cry. And throw up. I wish I seriously could afford to move to Canada.

[HumblePi]

I think we should divide the country in half horizontally and let Donald have the South and Hillary the North. It'll be something like Game of Thrones.

[WhitneyWhit]

I've lost faith in my country, I'm no longer proud to be an American.

[Kromm]

Just now, Dancingjaneway said:

I can't believe Donald Trump is going to be our fucking president. 

It's too early to say "will". But this is looking like a fucking worst case. A miracle in ONE state. That's all we need. 

I just don't get Ohio. As hard up as they are, Trump represents the very opposite of the ethos of most of that state.

[theredhead77]

I don't understand how 538 still has H. Clinton at a 73% chance of winning.

[Hudson0325]

God, dammit to fucking hell if that orange asshole wins!

[random chance]

These goddamn swing states going for Trump is like that scene in Cabaret where all the little fresh-faced children jump up and snarl "tomorrow belongs to me!" And the sane people just stare in horror because, WTF.

[gatopretoNYC]

Well, got home from voting &  grocery shopping about 15 minutes ago. Not very happy right now. I did enjoy getting the cops to bust these two people handing out flyers for some fearmongering republican for congress, only 40 feet from the polling place.

And now the drinking will commence.

[lyric]

Guys, is there any chance we're panicking too soon - can she win this?  Anyone?

[KerleyQ]

I just saw someone say the Detroit Free Press called Michigan for Hillary. Let's pray that holds up.  

[mojoween]

Gary Johnson is an idiot.  How the hell did he get that many votes?

[FartyPants]

calm down folks!  still too early to panic.

(but NH just got very tight!)

[meowmommy]

NYT Upshot just dropped the odds of an HRC win from 85% to 59%.

[LotusFlower]

Did a network call it for Trump?  Why are so many of you acting like it's over?  It's 9:15 PM EST!

[Silly Angel]

1 minute ago, HumblePi said:

I think we should divide the country in half horizontally and let Donald have the South and Hillary the North. It'll be something like Game of Thrones.

Oh, yay. A world like that of Game of Thrones. Like that's any...never mind, that actually looks way better at this point.

[Kromm]

The pity of it is after all of the bluster over how Donald wouldn't concede, we may well wind up with a situation where Hillary has to contest results in a state or two. The cries of "hypocrite" may be loud.

[Rosiejuliemom]

Will Queen Elizabeth take us back?

[theredhead77]

1 minute ago, mojoween said:

Gary Johnson is an idiot.  How the hell did he get that many votes?

Because people took their temper tantrums to the polls.

[Kromm]

1 minute ago, lyric said:

Guys, is there any chance we're panicking too soon - can she win this?  Anyone?

She has to win ONE swing state.

But the results so far are ALL several percent in each for DumpTruck.

 

It only takes one miracle. But they seem a bit thin on the ground now.

[mojoween]

"Would you rather be ruled by Orange Julius or The Night King?"

"...."

"Well?"

"Hold on, I'm thinking about it."

[gatopretoNYC]

New Hampshire!?? What the fuck?!

[katha]

I understand that it's depressing that it's so close, but it's not like HRC has already lost? In fact, no state has been called for Trump yet that he wasn't projected to win anyway.

[NextIteration]

ok, now i'm saying fuuuuuck.

[Apprentice79]

1 minute ago, Dancingjaneway said:

I can't believe Donald Trump is going to be our fucking president. 

Steven Schmidt said on MSNBC that this is the rural white populace taking their vengeance on the elitist, Urban, educated class that has treated them with derision and condescension for so long.

[Hudson0325]

This is just a nightmare. I worried he might win but I did not think it would be like this! Jesus, I thought we'd at least win then states we were supposed to.

OK, I'll calm down. It's not over yet

[Keepitmoving]

OMG, Trump is going to be president.

[Aquarius]

Virginia.  That's my problem.  Virginia. 

[Kromm]

3 minutes ago, meowmommy said:

NYT Upshot just dropped the odds of an HRC win from 85% to 59%.

They just recalced it to Trump.

It's only 4. But it's enough that it would take the Arizona option off the table (Hillary winning via Arizona).