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  1. Be glad you’re not! Spent the last couple of weeks trying to help an alcoholic sister. Heartbreaking. Anyway, my bet is it’s going to be an early night. So we have that going for us.

  2. Cannot get livestream to run, but the background shows FL in blue – is this other’s projection?

  3. Ok, my poor old eyes… WP does better job of shading their map, those are indication of who is leading based on exit polls.

  4. T has 129 electoral votes
    C has 97

    neck and neck for senate
    reuplicans 91 to 64 dems for house

  5. Fully expect a lot of rock throwing by Trump believers if he loses. I did say if, and not when. Strange things happen.

    Conway tweeted that it was a shame that the Republican establishment did not get behind him. That sounds like a loser talking.

    Well, when you personally and publicly insult people like the Bush’s, I don’t know why you would expect them to Kowtow. He made despicable comments about both GW and Jeb. He was equally uncivil to many others in the so-called establishment.
    Chickens do roost at home.

    At this point I hope the man wins; but, if he does it will be pure luck in my opinion. He ran against the only person in politics who is held in lower esteem, and he ran at a time when the country is simply disgusted with the government we have.

    If he doesn’t, it is because his own actions. He burned bridges with very people his crowd are now criticizing; he made too many “off the wall” statements that alienated wide swaths of the electorate.

  6. Watching Fox Business Channel. I’ve always liked Cavuto and Dobbs. Very laid back. The futures markets are down US market is down 500 points and the Asian markets are down big also.
    Shows the nervousness with how Trump is doing at this point.

    Trump will be good for main st., not so much for the multinationals at wall st. I thought about selling some today after the market was up Monday, anticipating a Hillary win.

  7. Mrs parker decided to escape to the bed and read, I just opened a bottle of Spainish tempranillo and started paying close attention to the msm coverage. I think I will finish the bottle over the next couple of hours.

    IMO exit polls are of little value. Exit polls in 2004 were wrong and John Kerry did not become the 44th president. Will check back later to read comments as the results are revealed.

  8. Brian E,

    If djt wins I will buy the dip, if hrc wins I will sell on the rally. 2017-18 will not be kind to equities here and around the globe. Trust me. 😉

  9. @Art – Need to add 74 ecv for CA, OR, WA to clintons, unless they become toss up now (OR’s 7 are closest to this).

    129 to (97 + 74) = 171

  10. Can’t watch, listen. Was in car this afternoon & radio was on just long enough to hear an HRC talking head exclaim how confident they are because the citizens want continuation of the great growing economy we’ve had for last 8 yrs..
    Radio off.
    Can’t fig. out if I’m so depressed be uz I think HRC is going to win despite the mountains of evidence that she bears no goodwill to American people but rather her ambition stems from a limitless core of greed and thirst for power and there’s no doubt she intends to fulfill both for her benefit only. (if that benefits others, fine. If not, tough.)

    Alternative reason: US voters either do not understand anything, are naiive and trusting with the most duplicitous charlatan politicians, are just plain stupid, or actually want the chaos, divisiveness and end of respect for law and order and freedom that has distinguished us as the leading country in the world.

  11. Surprise – 54% reporting (Senate) – Louisiana has 2 of the 4 Republicans winning with neither reaching 50% mandating a runoff in December. Thoughts were that the four GOP would be less than the two Democrats making that a pickup for the Dems.

  12. If trump wins, do we still get to say that the election is rigged?

    I now have trump at 284 ecv, if trump retains FL, NC, MI, WI, OH where he is now leading.

  13. “If djt wins I will buy the dip, if hrc wins I will sell on the rally. 2017-18 will not be kind to equities here and around the globe. Trust me.” – Parker

    You heard it hear first folks!

    At my age I shouldn’t be buying any equities. It is very unnerving to be in the market to the extent I am.

  14. I was listening to NPR on my way to Walmart just now and they had Ralph Reed on.
    Evangelicals voted 85% for Trump in Florida, 88% in a state I didn’t catch, and said even Wisconsin, evangelical Christians voted 75% for Trump where they are about 16% of the population.
    When asked why he said two words- Hillary Clinton. Her abortion position is untenable to anyone who is pro-life.

    Johnson in Wisconsin was called the winner.

  15. WI and MI are the two states that are the biggest surprise as they were not in the toss up category in anyone’s forecast.

    A little over 50% of votes are in and trump holds a slight lead.

  16. Earlier in the day

    Cornhead Says:
    November 8th, 2016 at 1:21 pm
    I am predicting a slim DJT win. He wins NC FL IA MI OH PA WI.

    Enthusiasm makes the difference. The Republic is saved.

  17. I was thinking the same thing, Neo.

    If those thing play out, this is a repudiation of Obama’s unwillingness to even try and unite the country.

  18. Well, it looks like Trump is going to do it.

    Such an unprecedented year. To the Trump supporters in these threads, congratulations. I feel I owe it to you to admit how wrong I was., I was NeverTrump from the beginning and still stand by that, but I was certainly wrong in almost all my expectations.

    The polls were wrong just like you said they were

    The GOP looked weak with women, minorities, the young but either they weren’t or it didn’t matter

    Cornhead, looks like you were right about the shy Trump voter

    I hope I continue to be wrong in that I hope he is a much better president than I have predicted.

    We won’t get to find out if the Republic ends with a Hillary victory!!

    Finally, hopefully he will come through with good Supreme Court picks.

    Enjoy the victory – I know we have gone hammer and tongs here on this site but I have definitely appreciated the back and forth. You deserve to revel in this one.

    The Lord is sovereign over the affairs of men – I’ll continue looking to Him and hoping to see good in our time. God bless America!

  19. “The Republic is saved.” – Cornhead

    If trump does win, we are a loooooong way from that.

    I would sincerely hope trump grows up quickly to the role he would then be taking.

    If trump wins, my prediction is that all those who cheer will be very disappointed come 2020.

    Cornhead you can then quote me at that election eve.

  20. It’s the pits living on the west coast in a deep blue state. Not only does my vote not matter, I think they called the state for Hillary with about 1% of the votes counted! No drama either!

  21. Big Maq,
    If that’s the case, he’ll be a one-term president, which I think would be something he should consider even if he does survive the coming storms.

  22. “Enthusiasm makes the difference.”

    We will see just how much enthusiasm for trump has to do with it the net results vs a lack thereof for clinton.

    Don’t take “historic” nominal numbers as proof, but percentage of voter eligibility vs prior elections – the population has increased in the last four years.

  23. Bill:

    On the polls.

    Ever since the Comey announcement, the polls were only slightly for Clinton, but well within the margin of error. A toss-up in statistical terms.

    The polls weren’t actually wrong, if Trump wins. The close states have been very close, within that margin of error.

  24. Iowa, with 32% reporting, has hrc up by 2000+ votes. But the solid R areas have not reported as of now. Trump may get our ECV yet.

    For me, djt’s only virtue was not being hrc. Hammering a stake into the clinton cabal is victory enough for at least a few days.

    I look forward to bowing down to our trumpiam horde overlords. Well, no I do not, but it might be a good idea to stay under the team the donald’s radar. 😉

  25. “How are you doing? I’m wishing I was a drinking woman, that’s how I’m doing.”

    Ditto.
    Sometimes, it’s really hard to be a Mormon.

  26. NYT is projecting with 95% certainty Trump with 302 electoral votes.

    …that at 9:00P PST (so midnight in the east).

    I’m breaking open a bottle of wine.

    …its not over until the countin’ is done, and I’m still in disbelief (pleasant disbelief) …but it’s worth raisin’ the grape to at this point.

    302 would be kind of good, right?

    I dunno what the morning will bring, but I’ll sleep easier tonight.

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