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

[HumblePi]

Here we go 16 States are coming up within minutes.....

[LotusFlower]

CNN just said Hillary is leading in Ohio!  By a big margin!  (Although it's only 12 or 13% precincts reporting).

Edited November 9, 2016 by LotusFlower

[Shannon L.]

She's up in NC? I haven't seen that yet. That's good.

[Grommet]

I love 8 PM!

[ABitOFluff]

Just now, xaxat said:

Oh, I forgot to list my drug of choice for tonight.

Psilocybe cubensis (aka "magic mushrooms")

(Uh. . . did I just say that out loud?)

My homemade wild fermented hard cider! (Yeah, that sounds better.)

Only  an hour to go before polls close in NY and I'm still bombarded by ads for local contests. Please make it stop!

ohhh, I miss magic mushrooms fermented hard cider.

[GHScorpiosRule]

Yes! Illinois to Hillary! ANd NJ! and Massachussets!!!!!!! And MY MARYLAND! AND CT!

Edited November 9, 2016 by GHScorpiosRule

[Frost]

I'm watching Too Cute on Animal Planet. 

[HumblePi]

New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Connecticut, D.C., Rhode Island, Delaware,   ALL HILLARY'S

[kittykat]

I feel like I go through the early hour freakout every four years since it's mostly red states reporting and about 5-6PM PST is when it all rights itself...at least on the blue side.

[GHScorpiosRule]

DC, DE! 

[kittykat]

curse you dbl post.  

Edited November 9, 2016 by kittykat

[GHScorpiosRule]

YASSSSSS!!!!! a nine vote LEAD!!!!!

[HumblePi]

3 minutes ago, kittykat said:

Clinton in the lead 54%-42%.  Whew.

Not yet, too early to call Ohio

[GHScorpiosRule]

TAMMY!!!

 And HAHAHAHAHA MUAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAA! BURR is LOSING!!!!!

[Grommet]

Yay Tammy Duckworth! Fuck her racist opponent.

[Frost]

Senate just gained a Democrat!

[Rapunzel]

Something funny from the New Yorker that a friend sent me earlier today that may save us all if that Oompa Loompa wins:

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/queen-offers-to-restore-british-rule-over-united-states

[AimingforYoko]

Mark Kirk was the first to run away from Trump. Didn't help. Bye, Felicia.

[NextIteration]

The part that is not Dumbfuckistan weighs in.  And so much love that Duckworth is called, I love her. ♥

Edited November 9, 2016 by NextIteration

[Aquarius]

Tammy Duckworth projected to win!!!

Yay!!!!!!!

[pennben]

Maybe I'm a bit too confident here, but I think Hillary has got Florida, but the networks don't want to call it too early because most of the drama leaks out of the evening because without Florida it's virtually impossible for Trump to win, most of the drama is gone for the evening for the Presidential race.

Edited November 9, 2016 by pennben

[starri]

Whew.  That's better.

[GHScorpiosRule]

I want Joy and Hayes!!!! 

[AmandaPanda]

Tammy Duckworth! And my vote in Maryland went to the winner! Fingers crossed for my home state of MO.

[LotusFlower]

Just now, HumblePi said:

Not yet, too early to call Ohio

Buzzkill!  (But of course you're right).

Let's not forget 2012 when Karl Rove on Fox refused to believe that Romney lost Ohio, even though all networks, including Fox, called it for Obama.  (A favorite memory of mine).

[Frost]

I am going to be soooooo satisfied if the latino vote is proven to put Hillary over the top.

[backgroundnoise]

Kornicki is almost unwatchable.  Stop with all the white voters stuff.

[ClareWalks]

My husband, a Gary Johnson voter, is the Unlikely Voice of Reason in my household, keeping me calm by saying "Trump isn't gonna win. He'd have to win at least one state that he is expected to lose." I am remaining calm. I am remaining calm. I am remaining calm.

And I can't even drink tonight because I'm on Watching Our Toddler duty while my husband goes to a work dinner :(

[Hudson0325]

I'm still worried about PA and Virginia. We need those

[callmebetty]

2 minutes ago, Aquarius said:

Tammy Duckworth projected to win!!!

Yay!!!!!!!

Awesome. I had to relocate.but I would have been with her if was still in Illinois . 

[Rapunzel]

1 minute ago, pennben said:

Maybe I'm a bit too confident here, but I think Hillary has got Florida, but the networks don't want to call it to early because most of the drama leaks out of the evening because without Florida, most of the drama is gone for the evening for the Presidential race.

The good thing is, Hillary doesn't HAVE to win FL to win. She has other paths.  However, Trump pretty much has to win FL to stand a chance.  

[HumblePi]

Hillary is winning in Ohio

[clb1016]

Just now, backgroundnoise said:

Kornicki is almost unwatchable.  Stop with all the white voters stuff.

Shouldn't all this demographic breakdown be done after the results are all in, to explain the outcome?

[NextIteration]

So y'all can see why Kornacki makes me stabby, right, RIGHT?

I want to like him but he also ruined my beloved Up With Chris Hayes.

Dagnabit - Rubio wins.

[AmandaPanda]

Ugh, Rubio stays in the Senate. 

[GHScorpiosRule]

Oh YUCK. Rubio won. 

[partofme]

11 minutes ago, ABitOFluff said:

Love! I'm one of those people who is calmed by Forensic Files. I fall asleep to it, because I know the good guys will catch the bad guys. That and the late, great Peter Thomas' narration.

I love his voice.  The new episodes make me sad.

7 minutes ago, Frost said:

I'm watching Too Cute on Animal Planet. 

I wish I could, I don't get Animal Planet.   Stupid Time Warner Cable.

[Keepitmoving]

Fucking Marco Rubio, ugh. We're gonna have to put up with his ass in 2020. He still looks like he's 12 years old.

[Bastet]

Gee, shocking - Oklahoma goes to Trump.  I have a shit ton of family there, and probably every single one of them voted for Trump.  I'm so embarrassed by that I'd only admit it here under the cloak of anonymity. (Oh, I just remembered I have a total leftist cousin in Tulsa.  Yeah -- sorry about the rest of my family, folks.)

Rubio.  Fuck that guy.

Edited November 9, 2016 by Bastet

[Moose135]

The Charlotte Observer is reporting that from results of early voting in NC, which was posted after the polls closed, in three major urban areas, Charlotte, Raleigh, and Greensboro, Clinton is significantly outperforming President Obama's numbers from 2012 early voting.

[GHScorpiosRule]

Seriously, Nicolle? It's even a question who ran "the better campaign?"

[Aquarius]

I'm in NJ.  I'm in a very red part of the state.  There were fucktards around here who actually thought we'd go red because they stood on line with other fucktards wearing Trump t-shirts and MAGA hats.

Google Oxford, NJ images and you'll see Trump has a bit of a base in these parts of NJ, blue as this state tends to be.

There was never any doubt how this state would go, but I'm still soooo happy to see it!!

[partofme]

5 minutes ago, Frost said:

Senate just gained a Democrat!

Which state?

[backgroundnoise]

CNN just said NC looks "encouraging" for Clinton.

I am a nervous wreck.

Edited November 9, 2016 by backgroundnoise

[AmandaPanda]

Just now, Bastet said:

Gee, shocking - Oklahoma goes to Trump.  I have a shit ton of family there, and probably every single one of them voted for Trump.  I'm so embarrassed by that I'd only admit it here under the cloak of anonymity.

Rubio is a disgusting waste of cells.

It's okay. My dad voted for Trump in MO. Fortunately, my mom voted for Hillary, so their votes canceled each other out.

[AimingforYoko]

Just now, partofme said:

Which state?

Illinois.

[WendyCR72]

2 minutes ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

Seriously, Nicolle? It's even a question who ran "the better campaign?"

Consider the source. Hater of Trump or not, Nicky is a Republican.

[khyber]

My Aunt in Boca convinced 2 friends to vote for Hilary  today. Go reasonable people of Florida.

[xaxat]

[Frost]

1 minute ago, partofme said:

Which state?

Illinois