The Unofficial Election 2016 Results Thread PLEASE

phiwum said:
How is that undemocratic? If only one person meets the requirements and enters the race for his party, then what should a democracy do? Force someone else to run? Leave the seat vacant?
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Is there a 'none of the above' option? If not, adding one would solve the problem.
 
phiwum said:
How is that undemocratic? If only one person meets the requirements and enters the race for his party, then what should a democracy do? Force someone else to run? Leave the seat vacant?
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Correct. It may be some other objectionable thing, but it's certainly not undemocratic. The other party(ies) could have run someone, and in many places you can write someone in.

Now, it may be futile.... that's another story. But if democracy is choice, it's probably not the fault (although he/she loves it) of the person who's running unopposed, but of their opponents for not giving it the old college try.
 
Voted for Trump a few hours ago, but if Hillary loses my state she's in very deep trouble. Dark blue territory.
 
John Jones said:
It's been problematic before. Jimmy Carter conceded before the west coast polls had closed.
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Ian Osborne said:
So everyone who didn't like Reagan and hadn't yet voted had the chance to switch to a third-party candidate to stop the Republican in that state. Or people just stayed at home, knowing their candidate had won or lost.

That's why it's illegal in the UK, and in this case, I think ours is the better system.
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In my case, in that election, I put in a protest vote for a third-party candidate. I believe that was the election in which the media PROMISED, cross-their-hearts, that they wouldn't declare a winner before the polls were closed everywhere. And then on the way to the polling place we heard Walter Cronkheit on the radio declaring the winner.

After that we signed up for permanent absentee ballots.
 
NoahFence said:
What are you going to do? Force the opposing party to run someone even if they don't want to?
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The larger context is that one party has secured a monopoly. There's no point in any other candidate running.

Like what Ford said about the Model T: "You can have any color you want, as long as it's black."
 
Tony Stark said:
Appears to be bs. It has Jill Stein at 1.7% in Nevada and she isn't even on the ballot there.
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IIRC, they're doing it based on notoriously unreliable exit polling so someone wrote her in is my guess.
 
Apparently turnout might be 80% in Florida. I suspect that would be bad for Donald. Little Marco might even lose.
 
Skeptic Tank said:
Voted for Trump a few hours ago, but if Hillary loses my state she's in very deep trouble. Dark blue territory.
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I'll be voting for Trump in about an hour. If Hillary loses my state (CA), she's in really, really deep trouble.

I can't imagine there are too many people left who think a Trump victory is possible in the General Election.
 
nelsondogg said:
Votecastr is supposedly providing real time vote projections. Dunno if it's bs or accurate.
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Even if accurate (which is highly unlikely), what would the counts matter before the polls are closed? Do we think more votes are cast during the workday, or after work? Are the votes cast during the hours most voters would be working representative of all votes cast, or only of those likely to have the time to vote during the day, such as retired people?
 
sir drinks-a-lot said:
I'll be voting for Trump in about an hour. If Hillary loses my state (CA), she's in really, really deep trouble.

I can't imagine there are too many people left who think a Trump victory is possible in the General Election.
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And yet, he will win.

Just watch.
 
I'm just hoping that there's no major power grid interruption, or something like, you know Houston getting nuked.
 
Stacko said:
IIRC, they're doing it based on notoriously unreliable exit polling so someone wrote her in is my guess.
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They say:

Each candidate’s vote total is calculated based on the number of known ballots cast during early voting and voters’ candidate preferences as derived from pre-election polls and microtargeting models. Real-time turnout data will be available from a sampling of polling places later in the day.
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http://www.slate.com/votecastr_election_day_turnout_tracker.html

I dunno how the hell they came up with Jill Stein at 1.7% when she isn't even on the ballot. The whole thing is a mess. I wouldn't pay much attention to it.
 
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