The Unofficial Election 2016 Results Thread PLEASE

dudalb said:
The two American Territories, along with BC, were part of a disputed area which, from roughly 50 years, from 1815 to 1846, were jointly governed by the US and Great Britain,while the dispute was settled. Fifty Four Forty or Fight,etc.
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Thanks. I probably knew that 30 years ago, then forgot.
 
High school kids in Phoenix walked out of class to canvas against Joe Arpio and Donald.
 
Maya22 said:
Pretty map. I'm a bit confused. Was part of British Columbia one part of Washington Territory or Oregon Territory?

My history knowledge sucks.
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Also, the map of the Washington area doesn't seem all that precise. Vancouver Island seems much more North than it should be I can't tell what year the map is. I'm looking at it on a tablet. . It could be between 1803 and 1812. 1803 would have been after the Louisiana Purchase and before the War of 1812 which was when the 49th parallel was decided as the border between the US and Canada. Many Americans believed up until about 1845 that the Oregon territory should extend to the 54 parallel.
 
dudalb said:
I can't believe that in California, I just voted on a properstion about condoms for actors making porn movies.
I am not joking.
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But you are in the one part of the world where 'porn actor' constitutes an actual demographic...;)
 
Maya22 said:
Yes, that is the strangest proposition ever!
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Not so strange when you understand the motivation of the people behind the proposition.

Porn tends to sell better when condoms are not used. Actors in the industry have to get tested regularly to ensure they have no STD's. The industry hub is in California where a vast majority of porn is made. Actors there are all quite satisfied with the current setup.

Along come the folks who think porn is icky and immoral, and since they can't ban it outright (they've tried in the past of course but porn is protected by the 1st amendment... foiled by the damn constitution again!), they figured they could get it shut down (or at least moved far away) by claiming porn actors need protection for their own health. It is similar to the changes required in all the Planned Parenthood clinics in Texas, done in the name of protecting women, which ended up closing most of the clinics down. Almost everyone knew that the changes weren't made to protect women's health but to shut down those immoral places that might provide an abortion to someone in need.
 
The Philly GOP party, who I used to respect, has turned its Twitter and FB feeds into Kool-Iad drinking shrill cries of allaged voter fraud accusations and other bizarre ravings (almost all from 2nd hand accounts taken at face value).
 
CNN has been running the numbers of Hispanic people that have come out to vote, and the numbers look fairly staggering.
 
plague311 said:
CNN has been running the numbers of Hispanic people that have come out to vote, and the numbers look fairly staggering.
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Who would have thunk that insulting Hispanics on the very first day of your campaign would motivate them to vote against you.
 
plague311 said:
CNN has been running the numbers of Hispanic people that have come out to vote, and the numbers look fairly staggering.
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They are building a wall after all; around every polling station as they wait their turn...
 
plague311 said:
CNN has been running the numbers of Hispanic people that have come out to vote, and the numbers look fairly staggering.
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Entirely unsurprising.

Hispanics are doing exactly what someone like me would expect them to do. They're voting their race. They're voting for their group interest.

A very high percentage of them are the children of illegals, or at least related to illegals. Regardless of that, they see Mexicans, not White Americans, as their countrymen.

They want the gates held open for more of their folk to get in, gain more power, change the culture here, and ultimately conquer this nation.

Trump dared to speak on behalf of the interests of actual Americans, one of which is the desire to not be swamped/replaced/displaced/dispossessed/made irrelevant by high birth rate outsiders who come in against our will. Sometimes they get the cooperation of our elites who want to drive down wages and have their gardeners and maids, and sometimes they do it regardless of that, but none of it is legitimate.

Whether Trump wins or loses, we are getting closer to ethnic balkanization and more undeniable, open racial strife.

How long until liberals admit that the dream of a post-racial society just simply isn't happening, ever?

20 years from now you're going to see incredible levels of interracial hostility in Europe and the United States.

Homogeneity was the way to avoid this.
 
Skeptic Tank said:
Entirely unsurprising.

Hispanics are doing exactly what someone like me would expect them to do. They're voting their race. They're voting for their group interest.

A very high percentage of them are the children of illegals, or at least related to illegals. Regardless of that, they see Mexicans, not White Americans, as their countrymen.

They want the gates held open for more of their folk to get in, gain more power, change the culture here, and ultimately conquer this nation.

Trump dared to speak on behalf of the interests of actual Americans, one of which is the desire to not be swamped/replaced/displaced/dispossessed/made irrelevant by high birth rate outsiders who come in against our will. Sometimes they get the cooperation of our elites who want to drive down wages and have their gardeners and maids, and sometimes they do it regardless of that, but none of it is legitimate.

Whether Trump wins or loses, we are getting closer to ethnic balkanization and more undeniable, open racial strife.

How long until liberals admit that the dream of a post-racial society just simply isn't happening, ever?

20 years from now you're going to see incredible levels of interracial hostility in Europe and the United States.

Homogeneity was the way to avoid this.
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I don't give a **** what racist white people think.
 
Heavy turnout reported in Michigan counties that supported Romney last time around.

I keep trying to figure out if this is good news for Trump. I'm imagining someone who doesn't normally vote, but decides this year that he or she will vote. Is it because there is finally a candidate that says the things they have been waiting for? A candidate who isn't like all the others? Or is it that there's finally a candidate that scares the bejeesus out of them to such an extent that they'll make the effort to vote against them?

In Michigan, we have to wait four more hours to find out, I guess. Whatever the answer, there are apparently a lot of them.
 
BBC running their live update page here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/election-us-2016-37899679

and they have this charming tale of the unfortunate man who was beaten up at the Trump rally earlier in the week:

A man who says he was attacked while protesting at a Donald Trump rally in Nevada has vehemently denied that he has engaged in voting fraud.
Austyn Crites, 33, made headlines when he was escorted out of the Trump rally in Reno last week and Mr Trump was briefly rushed off the stage by secret service agents.
Mr Crites told the BBC he was horrified to see Fox News repeat a claim being made online that his address had been used to cast a vote for his “dead” grandmother.
In fact, he said, “both of my grandmothers are still alive."
Mr Crites said he was shocked to hear the conservative TV network repeating the claim as fact without even contacting him to check.
He said it showed “disregard for journalism and just being a decent human being.”
On his show on Fox News, Brian Kilmeade said Mr Crites' "grandmother has been using this address to vote absentee for years, but she’s been dead since 2002".
Mr Crites said he understood that the network “may be supporting a particular candidate” but he said its journalists should "at least do your homework”.
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I'm getting the impression that in Republican speak 'voter fraud' = 'voted for the Democratic Party'.
 
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