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Yep. Nebraska didn't split this time. All 4 electoral votes for Trump.
We split in both elections for Obama, iirc.
Also looks like the incumbent Democrat congressman is losing his seat.
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Nebraska has 5 electoral votes. And Clinton is up by 8% in Douglas County. NE-2 might still go blue.
And Romney carried the district in 2012.
Like, are you trolling me right now?
is it me or is this down to michigan? A state where his demographic is turning out in higher numbers than the pollsters expected?
As my personal rule, I do not vote for anyone running unopposed.Like Hillary, for example?
Idiocracy =/= unopposed.
Yep. Nebraska didn't split this time. All 4 electoral votes for Trump.
We split in both elections for Obama, iirc.
Also looks like the incumbent Democrat congressman is losing his seat....
Nebraska has 5 electoral votes. And Clinton is up by 8% in Douglas County. NE-2 might still go blue.
And Romney carried the district in 2012.
Like, are you trolling me right now?
No, man. At the time I posted that, that's what the numbers said.
It went back towards Hills and Ashford, and now it looks like both have swung back to Trump and Bacon.But you're right about the 5 votes...of which it looks like Trump may get all of them.
I can't believe he won Iowa. That is mindboggling.
Well, that's it then.
President-elect Donald Trump.
Hope he enjoys divesting himself of all his investments while he's in office.
Hope those books are all in order.
You mean giving it all to Ivanka or Eric? I'm sure it won't be that painful.
Yep, plus it means he might have to do something other than pretend fire people.
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Part of me would move there. But this is my home, for better or for worse.
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I wanted to say thank you to everyone who voted. I may not agree with who we will have in office, but I am glad you voted.
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I don't think there is an actual law saying he has to divest investments? It's just the decent thing that all elected presidents have done of late.
Given that Trump has ignored those gentlemen agreements the entire election why suspect he would honor them now?
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:D
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I woke up this morning a strange mix of angry, fearful, and outright ashamed for my country. That has never happened with any election for me previously.
My best hope now is that there is so much infighting between Trump and the Republicans that not much gets done. And a lot of the crap he wants to do ends up being so unfeasible he abandons the effort.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
Again??!!
Roger-Wilco.
God help us all.
I'm telling ya -- Ares I.
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Oscar Mike Foxtrot Golf Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Sierra November Alfa Foxtrot Uniform, Aye!
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Well, the people voted. That's all I can really say.
Indeed.
And we can't argue with results, even if they aren't the ones we'd like.
Each election cycle tells the entire story of our country, with minimal variations on theme but gains in the extreme.
I just hope a bunch of people didn't vote specifically to see an allegedly monied man of one complexion tell another man of a darker complexion
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Well, I for one am interested in seeing how things play out. For the last 8 years, Republicans have said, "WE can fix the country! It's the president's fault!"
For the next 2 years (at least), we're going to have a Republican President, House, Senate, and Supreme Court. They hold ALL the marbles.
I don't believe in their policies. I don't believe they will work.
But they won a clear mandate to try them, and I can only sit back and hope that they actually DO something, rather than spend their time trying to legislate exactly who can use which bathroom, which prayers are acceptable in school and which aren't, and so forth.
Crossing my fingers and hoping they accomplish something positive for the country, rather than focusing on legislating morality and returning the country to that oh-so-wonderful late 19th century free market capitalism that was so good for the common man...
EDIT: One of the fathers of my kids' group is quite active in the "Libertarian Island" idea of creating a "regulation-free" island where businesses are unhindered by government interference. So far he has been unable to address my question: "Exactly how long do you think it will be on such an island before companies build slave-driven factories, because slave labor is cheaper than any other kind, and the 'all knowing consumer' who's supposed to avoid buying such products has been proven to be a nonexistent entity?"
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This is what the electoral college was made for.
Angry old white people rule.
I'm going to hope that, like the fears of gun-grabbing and the like, Trump doesn't do all the horrible things people claim he will do. The downside being he was the one making some of those claims.
Oh come on. When was the last time a President, Democrat or Republican, actually followed through on a substantial number of their campaign promises? :P
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I'm hurting. :(
ladies and gentlemen, jiggy and I disagree on just about everything game wise. But today, we mourn together.
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Oh come on. When was the last time a President, Democrat or Republican, actually followed through on a substantial number of their campaign promises? :PObama?
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HIllary couldn't keep enough of the black or hispanic votes to win. The swing states were decided by independants. I think the "angry old white people" rhetoric doesn't fit here.
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HIllary couldn't keep enough of the black or hispanic votes to win. The swing states were decided by independants. I think the "angry old white people" rhetoric doesn't fit here.
we disagree here.
That's ok, and I am truly sorry you and Jiggy are hurting this morning :(
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HIllary couldn't keep enough of the black or hispanic votes to win. The swing states were decided by independants. I think the "angry old white people" rhetoric doesn't fit here.
Indeed, Trump out-performed Mitt Romney in terms of the black AND Hispanic vote. If the "angry white people" couldn't mobilize to keep Obama out of the White House, there's obviously something else in play here.
Protip: Don't listen to the "experts" who thought Trump had no chance of winning, to figure out how he won. They clearly don't understand the forces at work here.
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HIllary couldn't keep enough of the black or hispanic votes to win. The swing states were decided by independants. I think the "angry old white people" rhetoric doesn't fit here.Indeed, Trump out-performed Mitt Romney in terms of the black AND Hispanic vote. If the "angry white people" couldn't mobilize to keep Obama out of the White House, there's obviously something else in play here.
Protip: Don't listen to the "experts" who thought Trump had no chance of winning, to figure out how he won. They clearly don't understand the forces at work here.
Didn't the experts say Brexit couldn't happen?
Protip: Don't listen to the "experts" who thought Trump had no chance of winning, to figure out how he won. They clearly don't understand the forces at work here.
100% this. No one expected this to happen, and the people who should be reliable in these matters didn't see this coming either. I'm not happy Trump won, but to be honest I'm glad Hillary lost. The DNC gambled by playing favorites, and had Bernie been the nominee, would have won, I believe. It would have been easier to get centrist Dems to vote for Bernie than (apparently) it was to get the more leftist Dems to vote for Clinton.
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The good news is that Hillary probably won't try to run again. She has the charisma of a dwarf fighter.
White, rural, low-information Americans have been fed a steady diet of anti-Clinton hate for almost 30 years. She never had a chance with them, and you need at least some of them to win.
More white women voted for Trump than for Hillary. That's how hated she is.
Next time, maybe the Dems will wise up and run someone who could have won walking away, like Bernie would have.
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Next time, maybe the Dems will wise up and run someone who could have won walking away, like Bernie would have.
I'm hoping for Elizabeth Warren.
Frankly, I think she could have won in a blowout this year if she had been willing to 'disrespect' Hillary like that.
On the other hand... if the Dems decide Trump had the right idea and nominate Kanye West then I'm done. I'm giving up on the human race and moving to the wilderness.
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Next time, maybe the Dems will wise up and run someone who could have won walking away, like Bernie would have.I'm hoping for Elizabeth Warren.
Frankly, I think she could have won in a blowout this year if she had been willing to 'disrespect' Hillary like that.
On the other hand... if the Dems decide Trump had the right idea and nominate Kanye West then I'm done. I'm giving up on the human race and moving to the wilderness.
What about John Oliver?