Wow. Whoa. That is some group of people. Thousands. - US Election Day 2016

Got to chime in quickly now that its all coming to an end, I've been reading the last 5 or 6 election threads since stumbling across this site and its really been a pleasure. Nice work you guys.

http://i.imgur.com/axu30NB.jpg

no line this morning at my precinct in lakewood, oh, a democratic suburb of cleveland. it was busy but pretty fast-moving. there was a grumpy old white dude who was passed between various sign-in tables though and he was very annoyed by that. on his way out he said "finally we can get rid of everything that's ruining this country"

guy who rents a room in the house next door to us outside wearing an uncle sam hat and holding a vote for trump sign trying to get cars to honk. maria yelled at him. she couldn't help herself. he said he likes all people and doesn't like trump he just doesn't want hillary to melt his face. also he didn't understand why maria had a problem since he was white and she was white.

also last night at the grocery store i overheard a guy behind the seafood counter tell another guy he better not vote for swillary or he'd shoot him in the head.

massachusetts gone wild.

also i was asked for ID twice? once just to get into the room and another time to find my name on the list. i wasn't aware of OH voter id laws. it was a little weird.

planning to spend 5 to midnight tonight in the pottery studio, call me when its over plz /pvmic

always been asked for ID in Shaker, voted absentee this year

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good morning, where's the Aperol?

I voted last week, by mail - one of my big takeaways from this year is that a lot more states need to adopt the Oregon system, hopefully we'll see movement towards that.

Dowd I think it must have been 2004 or conceivably 2008. I have only met the L. Jagger person a handful of times and it was after he had first attained some kind of strange reputation on ilx, which I never understood. In person he was quite friendly! Anyway I think of him posting in about 2006.

I agree with or expand on the view expressed above that the ilx US election threads have been

a) remarkably well informed and a great source of links to substantial information, and yes, often more insightful than general media coverage

b) as I have said before, often remarkably witty.

Line around two blocks in my Manhattan polling place. All in all a 45 minute process, but I'd wait on line for days in the snow to vote against that Dyspeptic Carrot

The precinct I'm observing in Collinwood has been running smoothly. No waiting or lines but a steady stream of voters, nearly 100% African-American. The outside poll observers said there was some yahoo walking around the building yelling REMEMBER BENGHAZI WHEN YOU VOTE.

Also, I highly recommend the Samantha Bee segment endorsing Hillary--made me feel even better about my vote

https://youtu.be/b6zf5VkuiEQ

The GOP area supervisor showed up about half an hour ago and was surprised he had no observers here. I made sure to let him know I had been here since 5:30am for the Democrats.

The precinct I'm observing in Collinwood has been running smoothly. No waiting or lines but a steady stream of voters, nearly 100% African-American. The outside poll observers said there was some yahoo walking around the building yelling REMEMBER BENGHAZI WHEN YOU VOTE.

― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Tuesday, November 8, 2016 10:13 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i drove by a few polling places in glenville on my way to work, they seemed busy but nothing crazy too.

Took me 5 minutes this morning. Mostly everyone in Hoboken is saving it for after work, I guess.

omg @ Don Shelby

Ha. Paul F Tompkins surveys the crowd of onscreen supporters at a Trump rally:

https://mobile.twitter.com/PFTompkins/status/795870883055177728

Voting has always been a five minute matter at my polling place -- took 30 minutes today.

voted in a lil town in vermont, spent more time on the ballot than i did waiting in line

I think it's only fair to request that every news outlet constantly trumpeting the nail-bitingly razor thin margin between Clinton and Trump permanently shutter their operations after Clinton's decisive victory. So fucking sick of that narrative.

I'm going to repost what I wrote on Facebook about how I'm viewing today:

I voted a week ago. It was remarkably easy, especially since my family was out of town at the time and it was Halloween; I left work, drove to City Hall, stood in two short lines, filled in some ovals and PRESTO! Done and done.

The last time I really struggled with who I wanted to vote for in a Presidential election was in 1992. I was extremely dissatisfied with President Bush's handling of the Gulf War. (I was 100% against going in but I felt that if we were to engage, we needed to engage 100%; I felt like the actual engagement plan we pursued was wishy-washy and almost guaranteed to destabilize the region further. I was also 18 and a certified military genius, as evidenced by my Tetris high score.) I was certain we needed a change and I thought that change was best represented by Paul Tsongas. When he lost the primary, I became very, very disillusioned. I knew Bush wasn't my guy and Clinton's speeches did not convince me he was my guy, either. Therefore, I did what any rational new voter would do; I went to the polls, thought long and hard about the type of person I though had the ideas and policy positions that would make sense for the direction I thought our country should go, and then wrote in my father for President.

Sadly, he didn't win. My timeline for building up grass roots support for my father's presidential bid was severely off, as I didn't start talking him up as the sane and rational choice to my friends until about a week after the election. I didn't even tell him that I considered him to be Presidential material until after the results were tallied. Maybe it was a foolish and vain thing to do; I don't know. I do know though that somewhere, in the depths of the vote tallies for the 1992 Presidential election, assuming the tallies are granular enough, there is a line item that says "D___ Perry - 1" and that the country missed out on electing the first black president by 16 years, even if he didn't know at the time that he was in the running.

This year, my choice was decided before the primaries ended. I read the platforms of the Sanders campaign and the Clinton campaign and liked both of them. I was happy with the execution of either vision, to the point where I literally could have flipped a coin to decide my primary vote. I knew one of them would be representing the Democrats when it came to Election Day and I knew I would be voting for him or her. That was pretty much it for me; I didn't take any of the Republicans seriously because all of them, from my perspective at least, had a fatal flaw that would not allow me to even consider voting for them. That Donald Trump emerged the victor once everything was said and done is not only an indictment of the current state of the Republican party; it is an indictment of the dog-whistles and racist underpinnings that are the true foundation of Republican thought once you scrape off the veneer of egalitarian self-determinism. It is all very well to proclaim yourself the party of individualism and excellence but when you do so by promoting policies that explicitly target the rights of women, minorities, queer and poor people, your proclamations ring hollow. Despite my liberal bent, I do not think that all conservative ideas are by definition wrong; I know I don't have all the answers and I am well aware of how unintended consequences work. However, if I do not believe you are willing to grant me a seat at the table and listen to my perspective, I can do nothing with your ideology. This is the corner the Republican party has eagerly painted itself into dating back to Nixon; Donald Trump is your triumphant culmination. I hope you are happy with yourselves.

Everyone who is eligible should vote. Everyone should vote not only with their self-interest in mind, but interest in the standing of your community, your state, your nation and your world. I've made my position clear; if you haven't done so already, now it's your turn. Vote.

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So what happened to that Twitter guy people kept quoting here about new Trump oppo about to be released? Rick Wilson?

new Trump oppo is HILLARY WINNING

US is about to oppo dump all over Trump

45 minute wait in the most diverse place in the USA. Long-haired roadie-looking guy wore a brightly colored pantsuit with a hillary pin but nobody stopped him for electioneering. Old asian lady with not great english showed me her blank ballot and asked how to fill it out. I began explaining and she asked "just want Hillary, where do I do that". I decided to not try to explain where and how she should vote for Hillary on the Working Families line.

Good morning ilxors. Am ringing doorbells most of the day in New Hampshire. Lots of ppl not home obv, but gotta keep on keeping on, I'm just one bee in the hive and going where I'm told.

Xp. Thx for that post, Dan.

So what happened to that Twitter guy people kept quoting here about new Trump oppo about to be released? Rick Wilson?

looks like it had too high an editorial hurdle to climb + people not wanting to break NDAs, but some people apparently think it's definitely coming out at some point.

looks like it had too high an editorial hurdle to climb + people not wanting to break NDAs, but some people apparently think it's definitely coming out at some point.

― frogbs

at which point whoever was sitting on it is going to have a very fun time explaining why they didn't release it when it mattered.

I dunno, Trump's still going to get his ass handed to him today, and I think continued efforts to delegitimize him after the fact are worthwhile. Dude needs to be decisively stamped into the dirt.

So what happened to that Twitter guy people kept quoting here about new Trump oppo about to be released? Rick Wilson?

― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, November 8, 2016 10:46 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Rumor is there were two oppos that still haven't come out:

1. Video of Trump in Russia with prostitutes
2. Evidence of Trump having paid for (multiple?) abortions

But alas, no appearance of these things yet

so according to the votecastr - http://www.slate.com/votecastr_election_day_turnout_tracker.html

hillary is leading in OH, IA, NV, WI and CO. trump is leading in PA but with only 4% of votes observed (the other states are much higher). nothing for NH yet.

xxp:

Withholding facts about his repugnance might serve a purpose (Clinton certainly didn't share oppo before the GOP convention), especially if Trump decides to become a kingmaker in GOP politics with Mercer media money.

xp oh yeah, and leading in FL too

https://twitter.com/NoahGrayCNN/status/796019686907453441
trump getting some boos as he goes to vote

He would vote at Lips

about to leave my house to go Vote

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Scene outside PS 59 as Donald Trump arrives to vote for himself for the second time ever

lol otm

think i'm gonna vote around 3 when my girls get out of school so i can bring them along

btw, lol BK NYC but this was put up under a bridge i jogged by

http://i.imgur.com/xBAoqa9.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xRzR8ZF.jpg

and then torn down the next day

just got home from an exhausting 13 minutes of Voting

ciderpress how is the marijuana legalization issue looking in MA

My friend in NYC tried to vote but Trump was at the polling place voting for himself and she couldn't get in

Voter suppression!

I glanced at those Wilson and Mair Twitter feeds and was amazed to see them *still* pitching these ever more explicit but still far from useful Trump dumps. The responses have been pretty hilarious.

Any suggestions for online updates of the Senate race? I'm choosing to focus on that specifically today, to the extent that I'm able.

marcos i haven't really been following it but general sentiment among the few ppl ive talked to is that it's likely to pass

road trip to MA soon !!

we filed to vote by mail and then decided to drop our ballots off, which was smart. i was in and out in three minutes. our neighbor had been waiting in line for an hour, we exchanged "good luck usa" well wishes and parted ways.

LOL

https://twitter.com/Gabbienain/status/796031055715246080