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04-11-2016, 12:55 PM | #1 | |||
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I thought I would open a generic thread to talk about the election as its less than a week away and discuss the result. So latest news, polls, tweets etc US election day and night: timeline 00:01 ET (05:01 GMT) The first results are announced - possibly in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire 06:00 ET (11:00 GMT) Polling stations open in east coast states and election day proper underway TBC: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton cast their votes, most likely in New York 19:00 ET (00:00 GMT) Polling stations start to close and first state projections made based on exit polls 23:00 ET (04:00 GMT) Earliest possible time the election will be "called" for either candidate by US TV networks TBC: Victory or concession speeches from both Mrs Clinton and Mr Trump ------------------------------------ The magic number is 270 electoral college votes - each state, plus Washington DC, is awarded a certain number of electoral votes based roughly on size. When the winner is beyond doubt, the losing candidate calls the winner to concede. Both Mrs Clinton and Mr Trump will give a speech: one to claim victory and the other admit defeat. But there is always the possibility - as happened in 2000 - that at the end of Election Day we may still not know who has won. Last edited by LeatherTrumpet; 09-11-2016 at 08:35 AM. |
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04-11-2016, 12:57 PM | #2 | |||
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Clinton will win and Trump will cry it is rigged like the pathetic baby he is and life will go on. The end
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04-11-2016, 01:06 PM | #3 | |||
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04-11-2016, 01:12 PM | #4 | |||
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El Cockroach
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Thought it would go either way, but remain would win by about 1 or 2 %.
However Clinton will win this But if Trump wins he wont last the whole term, so I am not too worried.
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04-11-2016, 01:17 PM | #5 | ||
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04-11-2016, 01:27 PM | #6 | ||
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04-11-2016, 02:01 PM | #7 | |||
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El Cockroach
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Well Prison is better then being dead. I really think Trump will be assassinated sooner or later
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04-11-2016, 01:06 PM | #8 | |||
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I traded with a Georgian guy at my work... my homemade, chickpea masala (now and forever more referred to as the love curry) for his vote in the American Election
I told him to vote for this guy
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04-11-2016, 01:09 PM | #9 | ||
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Well we can be sure of one thing.....
Whoever wins it will be a disaster. |
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04-11-2016, 01:10 PM | #10 | |||
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04-11-2016, 02:25 PM | #11 | |||
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Keyser Suze
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It's a just a question of having to choose the lesser of two evils really isn't it
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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." - John Adams. "Live for today because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come" - Author unknown Last edited by Suze; 04-11-2016 at 02:27 PM. |
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04-11-2016, 01:09 PM | #12 | |||
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"iv had some kinky sex"
preach it sis |
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04-11-2016, 01:11 PM | #13 | |||
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Mokka
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That's my favourite platform of his
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04-11-2016, 01:21 PM | #14 | |||
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The Two Milkes (Old Journalists who worked for years in the US) are doing a special show on Talksport from 12 til 6am - should be brilliant
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04-11-2016, 03:10 PM | #15 | ||
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Maybe they should both go to prison they can start over with some sensible candidates?
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05-11-2016, 12:50 AM | #16 | |||
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Likes cars that go boom
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Ooops!!
Judge issues restraining order against Trump campaign over voter-harassment fears An Ohio judge has issued a temporary restraining order against members of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to prevent them from intimidating voters in the Buckeye State after the filing of a lawsuit that alleged Trump’s campaign, in cahoots with a GOP operative and his political action committee, were conspiring to suppress minority votes in the state. US District Judge James Gwin ruled in a lawsuit filed by the Ohio Democratic Party that any members of Trump’s campaign or affiliated with Roger Stone’s Pac would face contempt-of-court charges, according to Cleveland.com. The order will be written in a party-neutral manner, Gwin said in his ruling. “It wouldn’t be any attempt to particularly identify as somebody being a Trump supporter or not,” Gwin said. The lawsuit, filed on Sunday, claimed that Trump’s comments in Akron on August 22 - “You’ve got to get everybody to go out and watch, and go out and vote. And when I say ‘watch,’ you know what I’m talking about, right?” - were a tacit bid to convince his supporters to suppress minority turnout. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-campaign-live
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05-11-2016, 01:07 AM | #17 | |||
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Likes cars that go boom
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The polls tighten. The fear rises. And there could hardly be a more urgent or relevant film than this.
You’ve Been Trumped Too: it’s the film Donald Trump doesn’t want you to see Anthony Baxter Read more Five years ago, British director Anthony Baxter made a Michael Moore-esque documentary about the obnoxious arrogance of Donald J Trump, who was vandalising a coastline of natural beauty near Aberdeen to build a golf course, in so doing making promises on job creation and finding a useful idiot in Alex Salmond, who had rolled over with the necessary political permissions. In the course of all this, Trump’s building workers had cut off the water supply to an elderly, courageous widow, Mrs Molly Forbes, and her son Michael. The Forbes family had refused to sell up. Now, five years later, Baxter has returned to find this water supply has still not been restored. The point about Trump’s grisly Scottish adventure is that it’s a very real dummy run for what he would be like as an international statesman in the arena of politics and diplomacy. Of course he is a mendacious sociopath, and he has far too easily coerced forelock-tugging UK officials into doing his bidding. When Trump talks about bringing the private business style into politics, this is what he means: corporate lawyers attacking local communities; and breaking promises on jobs, supposedly the cornerstone of what passes for Trump’s political vision. What on earth is Nicola Sturgeon doing about this? Or Scottish Secretary David Mundell? Whatever happens in the US presidential election, it is time for them to stand up for Mrs Molly Forbes. https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...se-documentary
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05-11-2016, 05:40 AM | #18 | |||
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Fighting the PC Culture
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People are definitely lashing out at the media. A man repeatedly asks this Sky News Reporter why they are asking Trump supporters "loaded questions".
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05-11-2016, 03:35 PM | #19 | |||
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Nevada pretty much dead for Trump already. Big blow for him.
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05-11-2016, 03:53 PM | #20 | |||
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Donald Trump on Saturday began his final weekend of the 2016 White House race headlining his essentially one-man show, while slamming the campaign of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for letting hip-hop star Jay Z rap a profanity-laced song at a rally Friday night in battleground Ohio.
“He used every word in the book. Can you imagine if I said that?” Trump, whom the Clinton campaign and others have criticized for using racially and otherwise insensitive language, said at a rally in Tampa, Florida. “That shows you the phoniness of politicians, the whole system. … In three days, we are going to win Florida. We are going to win the White House.” http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016...-standard.html Jayzee and Beyonce losing any credibility they had left, pathetic |
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06-11-2016, 12:08 AM | #21 | |||
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Live Nevada - CNN HD/SkyNewsHD/BBCnewsHD
Trump was rushed off stage by Security as one man had a Gun or Weapon (ref :CNN HD) http://news.sky.com/story/donald-tru...rally-10647294 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...eno-rally.html Last edited by arista; 06-11-2016 at 12:36 AM. |
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06-11-2016, 12:10 AM | #22 | |||
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Trump is back on stage
he thanked the secret service armed men Live Now Last edited by arista; 06-11-2016 at 12:34 AM. |
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06-11-2016, 08:23 PM | #23 | |||
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Withano
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This is a cool video, different generations reacting to the candidates and its a pretty mixed pool of opinions.
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06-11-2016, 08:51 PM | #24 | |||
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Triumph of the Weird
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I've RSVP'ed.
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08-11-2016, 04:34 AM | #25 | |||
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Sod orf
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Voting open.
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