US Politics/2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread

[Dan]

I don't recall making any points about Johnson here. You must be confusing me with someone else (or I am growing senile).

I actually found it interesting that in certain states there were as many as 9 (OH IINM) or 10 (UT IINM) top of the ticket choices!

5 on my ballot.

[ExGingi]

Now I just got myself thinking how insanely expensive elections would get if they were decided by a popular vote.
Not that they aren't expensive now, but I can imagine the expenses soaring 300-400%.

I think it would be very interesting if we would actually have 2 round voting, where 2nd round is only for top two candidates. I think that has potential to sway elections anywhere very differently than actual outcomes with 1 round as we have it now, and as they have in Israel.

[yuneeq]

I don't recall making any points about Johnson here. You must be confusing me with someone else (or I am growing senile).

My bad

it's the people in PA who voted for Johnson to "make a statement" who took the 100,000+ votes away from their more 'favorite' candidate.
The spread is still less than 50,000 at 1:00am EST.

[ExGingi]

5 on my ballot.

Bad enough. So I'm confusing it with another state, will have to look it up (unless the 9 names included write-ins).

MN - 9, MI - 6, WI- 7, NH -5

Just look at https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=election+results&eob=enn/p/mn/0/0/////////// where you can look at state by state results.

[skyguy918]

Now I just got myself thinking how insanely expensive elections would get if they were decided by a popular vote.
Not that they aren't expensive now, but I can imagine the expenses soaring 300-400%.

More than that. 1000%+

Doesn't have to be that way. Our election campaigns (especially campaign spending) are fairly unique, and perhaps not so coincidentally, so is our method of electing our head of state.

[shulem92]

I don't have access to Google right now, can someone tell me what the final results were in the electoral college? Thanx

[ilherman]

Wolf working round the clock. Impressive.

[aygart]

[Dan]

Doesn't have to be that way. Our election campaigns (especially campaign spending) are fairly unique, and perhaps not so coincidentally, so is our method of electing our head of state.

Ad spending in big markets is a lot more costly than in CLE and CLT.

[Dan]

[ExGingi]

Now I just got myself thinking how insanely expensive elections would get if they were decided by a popular vote.
Not that they aren't expensive now, but I can imagine the expenses soaring 300-400%.

Another alternative would be to go the ME route. That would give people in states like NY, NJ, CA etc. a reason to actually vote (though in my district, as it is currently drawn, we are lumped in with heavily liberal Park Slope, there would still be no reason to vote).

[aygart]

Do you think Bernie would have won?

I don't know what effect he would have had on Trump's win of the rust belt and on his getting almost 50% of union vote. So possibly yes unless Trump would have gone with a different strategy. Who knows.

[Freddie]

Are we going to post in this thread for the next four years? When will this thread finally go dormant?

[grodnoking]

Google shows Clinton ahead on popular vote.

[Dan]

https://www.facebook.com/IsraeliPM/videos/1470205026327571/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED

[ExGingi]

Are we going to post in this thread for the next four years? When will this thread finally go dormant?

We need some final scripts in the Wiki before this thread can be closed. I just gave my 2 cents.

[aygart]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/elections/how-trump-pushed-the-election-map-to-the-right.html

[ExGingi]

https://www.facebook.com/IsraeliPM/videos/1470205026327571/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED

Wow! I don't think I've ever seen Netanyahu look like that. He seems to be struggling to hold back his emotions.

[yesitsme]

Google shows Clinton ahead on popular vote.

Not Even 1%

[Welder]

Not Even 1%

Only 200k! (99% reporting)