US Presidential Election 2016: Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump

[athanaric]

Not surprised to see DC and Maryland (and NYC) firmly in the grasp of Clinton. Guess that speaks for itself.

Ohio and North Carolina already went for Trump in the results so far. Florida is highly unlikely to shift when he's leading by 150.000 votes and Virginia with almost as much of the % reporting in as Florida? I find it hard to see it.

I bet they'll find a ballot box somewhere in Florida with 400k pro Hillary votes just in the last minutes...

[Prodromos]

Trump is still leading in VA. Although Northern Virginia counties supposedly report last, so Hillary still has a chance.

[Emperor Arcturus Mengsk]

According to this Trump is ahead, so I'm confused.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...p-clinton-live

[snuggans]

this is looking to be an upset. i am shocked

[Netscape]

It looks like Trump is winning Florida, Ohio, Virginia and others so far. To my surprise, he might actually pull this off.

[Harith]

Trump is still leading in VA. Although Northern Virginia counties supposedly report last, so Hillary still has a chance.

I don't know. This seems bad. Really, really, really bad. 2.3% is a lot to overcome when your reporting 85% of the vote.

[removeduser_487563287433]

I wonder if the good Germans felt the same way when Hitler was racking up votes.

[Akrotatos]

I have to work tomorrow God dammit I thought we would have HC win by now to be honest.

[Harith]

Holy. Crap.

He's winning New Hampshire!!

[Prodromos]

Trump is now leading in NH again. Plus MI and WI, with MN a tossup according to exit polls. It's looking much like a landside.

[Harith]

Trump's lead in Virginia is now down to 0.7 with 89% reporting. She might actually flip it back to blue. Michigan looks bad however.

----EDIT----

0.5% now in Virginia with 90% in!!!

-----EDIT2----

0.3% now!!!

[empr guy]

Pretty incredible Virginia has about 5K vote difference atm (~86% of precincts reporting), when the Clinton and Trump campaigns stopped considering the state competitive weeks ago. The other states where trump is 'unexpectedly winning' all have low percents of votes in, so we'll see.


Seems like white people being ~73% of the population made pandering to them not as suicidal electorally as everyone assumed.

[lolIsuck]

Less than 20k votes seperating them in Virginia with 10% left, mostly from the north it seems so that one might go to Clinton in the end. She has to find 150.000 votes in Florida though, which seems somewhat more problematic with 5% left to count.

[athanaric]

Holy. Crap.

He's winning New Hampshire!!

Yeah that's weird. Also surprised to see him do so well in the south and some other places, maybe some black folks secretly voted for him?

[Harith]

Yeah that's weird. Also surprised to see him do so well in the south and some other places, maybe some black folks secretly voted for him?

I think they just chose to sit and not vote. I did notice a lot of urgency from the Clinton campaign in the last week about getting the black vote and mobilizing the Latino vote (to substitute the deficit I suppose).

[Prodromos]

More likely that black people sat out the election.

I'm thinking maybe Johnson and Stein and maybe McMullin gave Trump the presidency. If it weren't for them, NeverTrumpers would have gone for Hillary.

[Napoleonic Bonapartism]

If Hillary did rig it she did a pretty rubbish job of it.

[empr guy]

A lot of trouble the clinton campaign has is that it does better with Latinos then blacks, which is a problem because a lot of latinos are in states like Texas, safe red, NY, safe blue, or just too scattered to be a big part of the equation in states like OH, NC etc.

That being said, Clinton has retaken the lead in Virginia and will most likely win the state.

If Hillary did rig it she did a pretty rubbish job of it.

I'm thinking maybe Johnson and Stein and maybe McMullin gave Trump the presidency. If it weren't for them, NeverTrumpers would have gone for Hillary.

These are both very true, although I'd say more McMullin in states outside of Utah

[skh1]

Meanwhile, this just in from my 401K plan:

9:35 p.m. ET: Stock futures turned sharply negative and the Mexican Peso plunged against the U.S. dollar, reversing gains as Donald Trump expanded his lead on Hillary Clinton in the state of Florida. At 9:35 p.m. ET it was Republican nominee Trump who was in the lead by roughly 140,000 votes in Florida. The peso plunged over 7.9%, while stock futures were beginning to trade down sharply. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell over 489 points, or nearly 3%. Democrat leaning counties such as Broward and Miami-Dade hold most votes remaining to be counted, however over 95% of the vote is in. Fear proxies like gold and futures on the CBOE volatility index are surging as Trump gains a path to the presidency. Gold rose 2.2% after 9 p.m. ET.

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[Harith]

A lot of trouble the clinton campaign has is that it does better with Latinos then blacks, which is a problem because a lot of latinos are in states like Texas, safe red, NY, safe blue, or just too scattered to be a big part of the equation in states like OH, NC etc.

That being said, Clinton has retaken the lead in Virginia and will most likely win the state.

All is left to secure is Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and New Hampshire.