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Who is going to win this election in November?

Who will win the general presidential election?

  • Donald Trump

    Votes: 37 22.7%
  • Hillary Clinton

    Votes: 126 77.3%

  • Total voters
    163
  • Poll closed .
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Steve Bannon is Trump's campaign chair (or some such title). Formerly the CEO of Breitbart. Right-wing, white supremacist, conspiracy nut. Not the kind of advisor any serious candidate for public office should have.
 
Steve Bannon is Trump's campaign chair (or some such title). Formerly the CEO of Breitbart. Right-wing, white supremacist, conspiracy nut. Not the kind of advisor any serious candidate for public office should have.

OMG........ So that's why Trump is courting neo nazis and stuff. Eeeew

Why are people voting for this guy?
 
No. The nation of amnesiacs will move on to whatever the news cycle is selling the next day. Maybe the latest Dr. Phil or the Kardashians.
 
And people actually believe that will happen.

Will there be rioting if it doesn't?
I hope not? I can't really say. All I can tell you is what I hear from the people voting for him. They talk about getting angry, "watering the tree of liberty," and other bullshit, but I hear that kind of talk all of the time, and nothing ever comes of it.
 
I hope not? I can't really say. All I can tell you is what I hear from the people voting for him. They talk about getting angry, "watering the tree of liberty," and other bullshit, but I hear that kind of talk all of the time, and nothing ever comes of it.

Wasn't that or a similar quote used by the guy that offed Lincoln?
 
Trump's rhetoric is straight out of the Hitler and Hess playbook. Except, y'know, when Hess said that Jewish global conspiracy stuff at the Nuremburg trials, people thought he was insane. Trump is more subtle, but the message is the same, and yet...none of his supporters thinks he's crazy? Ugh.
 
Almost everyone on both sides are good people. Watch out for the elites who try to convince you your fellow citizen is a bad person. I'm personally not at all concerned, feeling pretty awesome right now.
 
Wasn't that or a similar quote used by the guy that offed Lincoln?
Booth (who killed Lincoln) said "Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged." The quote about the "tree of Liberty" is from Thomas Jefferson. It's a popular Tea Party slogan. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

The idea being that unless there's a revolution every once in awhile, tyrants appear. Y'know, like that tyrant Obama. Who has made a mockery of the Constitution, and...yeah. Right? Right! TRUMP 2016!!!!!!!!
 
Booth (who killed Lincoln) said "Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged." The quote about the "tree of Liberty" is from Thomas Jefferson. It's a popular Tea Party slogan. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

The idea being that unless there's a revolution every once in awhile, tyrants appear. Y'know, like that tyrant Obama. Who has made a mockery of the Constitution, and...yeah. Right? Right! TRUMP 2016!!!!!!!!


OK cool I didn't know that I had the wrong President in mind... So that was Jefferson that said that.
 
The very first polls in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire open in about 35 minutes. Election Day 2016 is about to begin, guys!
 
Do you think by Friday we'll have a working result?
If all goes well for Hillary, then she's announced as president-elect at 11pm EST, when polls close on the West Coast, bringing in a windfall from California, Washington, and Oregon.

If things are touch-and-go, it might hinge on Ohio and Florida being really close, and we might have a call around 1am or 2am.

If Donald Trump refuses to concede because he's on the phone with Karl Rove who does a repeat-performance of his Ohio denial from 2012 on Fox Noise, or just refuses to concede because he doesn't recognize any of the election results and says something stupid like "I want a FULL recount! Can't trust 'em, folks. Can't trust 'em. We have tremendous support all over the whole nation, let me tell you. There's no way we can lose unless CROOKED HILLARY RIGGED THE WHOLE THING!!!!"....

....if that happens, then perhaps there will be a night of drama.

Will there be a "Florida 2000" situation? I doubt it. Unless there are serious voter-suppression shenanigans in Democratic areas, Hillary should have this in the bag.
 
If Hillary wins both North Carolina and Florida relatively early in the evening it's over. Ohio will just be the cherry on the icing, and I still think her ground game in the Buckeye State will pull out a very narrow victory before the night is through.
 
My brother, who lives in Florida, is very confident that Florida will go blue. I'm about 60/40 on that. 50/50 on North Carolina. But Trump needs almost every swing state to win, and he won't get it.

Fox Noise of all places predicts Hillary having 274 votes, with NC and Florida up in the air. So she has enough based on that "conservative" estimate.

My own conservative estimate is a hair over 300 for her. I'd be thrilled for it to be 320+ though.
 
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