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Well, fuck.
They don’t seem to have locked down the polling place, though.
I voted for Hillary today.
You have my permission to use this post in your scientific polling.
I just saw that too, Nequam. It may not be related to the election, but it’s miserable in any case. I understand that there’s a gun control initiative on the ballot in California? I hope it gets passed!
To distract myself from the possible horror of a Trump presidency, I am playing the horror game “Until Dawn.”
There is a gun control initiative. I happened to have voted for it.
Other than that, I went out and bought some components for an electronics experiment (and one of those pliers used to straighten bead wire; it’s good for straightening component leads), plan to have dinner, and then visit friends.
@Kat
More than 10 state and local measures to vote on? wow
Here in Massachusetts we had 4 (although one is something that the one municipality it would affect already past ordinances to block it so I don’t know what will happen if it passes)
@Kupo
what the person telling you that you’re not understanding where colleague is coming from isn’t realizing is that they aren’t realizing where you are coming from. I’m sorry you have to deal with that
@Nequm
Fuck.
It looks like Dems are losing the House majority, too.
All of a sudden Clinton and Trump are neck and neck in Florida, oh I so wish for Florida to go to Clinton, just to ensure that there is a slim to none chance for Trump to pull through.
I’m so glad I live in Washington, so I can mail in my ballot and not endanger myself by electing Hillary (which I did about a week ago). Plus western Washington where I live is fairly liberal anyway.
@Handsome: I thought they didn’t have a House majority to begin with, more’s the pity.
@OoglyBoggles, apparently that’s the early voter count coming in – the stream I’m following said that they would likely count those almost immeidately, and Florida had a huuuuge surge of Latino early voters for Hillary. Woot!
Also, don’t despair – the last counties to be counted are usually the urban centres, so the Democratic bastions.
What’s this about losing the House majority though?
Oh, I am just laughaging all night long at the memelords who ducked up their vote in one way or the other.
Just desserts, folks.
haha, I know, Falconer! It’s the best. Also, nice to see you chime in again!
Re: the House majority, I thought that was a long shot?
The Dems were ahead by quite a few seats, but the Reps suddenly got a lot of seats real quick and it’s neck and neck now.
I probably should stop live blogging this shit. I’m nervous and I’m just making others nervous.
@Scildfreja – sorry I am quiet so much, but I never seem to have much to say.
@WWTH
Georgia represent! We’ll probably still go Trump, but the closeness is notable and maybe sets up a shift for later. I’m jazzed…
According to the exit polls, Clinton is behind with white voters but doing better than Obama did in 12. We’ll see. Fingers crossed
Ohio is looking bad though.
@kupo
electoral college voters who are refusing to vote for Clinton even if she wins are seriously the worst, like if it goes against you’re conscious to vote the way you’re supposed to, why don’t you step down? Like if it goes against you’re conscious to fulfill the duties of you’re job, maybe that’s the wrong job for you
Money.
Okay, for anyone who wants to know but doesn’t wanna google or click that link, currently, Trump is in the lead 24 v 3. 267 votes are needed to win.
However, Dems are in the lead 38 v 33 for the Senate with 51 needed to win majority and 15 v 14 in the House wirth 218 needed for majority.
I’ll be watching YouTube to keep my mind off things because it’s gonna be, like 3 hours until everything is counted.
With just hours to go, it’s time to throw my hat into the ring of ‘Which Song for This Winner?’
For Hillary, I’m calling one of both of these:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iUDPLi5frs&w=640&h=360%5D
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i33GkzU5vMc&w=640&h=360%5D
(Possibly also The Touch.)
And for the other guy, you get a sequence of two!
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKdeNv3Rlv0&w=640&h=360%5D
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VakU20APPdw&w=640&h=360%5D
Ahaha. Haha. Yeah…
I early-voted. Here’s hoping Florida, far-away land of my birth, doesn’t embarrass me. Good luck, everyone! Though it’s looking more and more like we won’t need that much after all.
(I’m not totally sure if the embeds will work or not. Here’s hoping.)
The Clinton campaign won a request to keep a handful of precincts open because they had some software glitches. That’s good news. I’m guessing those most be dem precincts or it wouldn’t be the Clinton campaign asking them to stay open.
@ Scildfreja Unnýðnes
Oh yeah I keep forgetting that the dem districts are usually polled last. Thank you for that.
@Jack
To further clarify, Dems only need 50 in the Senate if Clinton wins. VP Tim Kaine becomes a tie breaker in that case
haha, that’s probably true