[POLL] United States Presidential Elections 2016

[Johnnypenso]

I half expect Trump to declare victory without a concession speech from Hillary. Would fit right in with the rest of the campaign so far.

 

[McLaren]

Fox saying Trump may be ready to take the stage now, or very soon?

 

[Slash]

Fox saying Trump may be ready to take the stage now, or very soon?

NBC also reporting this.

 

[Sanji Himura]

The GTP Decision Desk can now confirm:

Donald Trump has won Maine's second Congressional District.

This is based on the call in the House race in that district.

 

[ClydeYellow]

If al'Qaeda is a more extreme version of the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah, and ISIS is a more extreme version of al'Qaeda, what does a more extreme version of ISIS look like?

I generally agree with your sentiment, but that's a quite simplicistic view. Those that you listed are very different organizations born out of very different contexts and with very different goals, and the only thing they have in common (apart from some overlap in membership, and some tactical and strategical alliances) is that they claim to take inspiration from specific interpretations of the Quran and the hadit(s) they deem most important.

Also, the President may order the military to achieve an objective; whether or not the war-weary military will drag its feet in achieving it or not is, however, another matter entirely.

There are many other, arguably more valid reasons to be worried about Trump's foreign policy...

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

His statements about Mosul, for one. He claimed that the plan to take the city back from ISIS was an embarrassment, because the attack was telegraphed weeks in advance. He evidently felt that America should swoop in and take ISIS by surprise, fundamentally under-estimating the importance of working alongside the Iraqi and Kurdish forces in the region. Sure, he could have flattened ISIS in a heartbeat, but that's exactly the kind of thinking that enabled ISIS to rise in the first place. If al'Qaeda is a more extreme version of the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah, and ISIS is a more extreme version of al'Qaeda, what does a more extreme version of ISIS look like?

Or he felt that maybe plans shouldn't be so public, as many people have said for years. Also we've been working with their forces.

Also you seem to be hinting at Trump as that more extreme, it's just conflated idealization of an idiot. You give him to much credit really but that's you. Anyways enjoy your week.

 

[Slash]

Donald Trump taking the stage for announcement.

 

[ukfan758]

Has Pennsylvania been at 89% the whole time?

 

[McLaren]

Has Pennsylvania been at 89% the whole time?

97% on Fox. N.H is the only one that seems to continue to move back-and-forth. Hillary had a small lead, but now it's 47.5-47.4 for her (318,230-317,807).

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Wisconsin has been called.

 

[Johnnypenso]

Here comes da Trump...soon...

 

[TRGTspecialist]

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Anyways enjoy your week

Our economy just lost $34 billion because a baboon with orange hair just got elected:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-09/us-election-markets-clinton-trump/8009004

So it's not going to be a good week.

 

[Johnnypenso]

AP is calling it for Trump...victory speech may be imminent.

 

[Dylan]

Edit: Tree'd

 

[ukfan758]

The networks should be following suit.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Our economy just lost $34 billion because a baboon with orange hair just got elected:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-09/us-election-markets-clinton-trump/8009004

So it's not going to be a good week.

Well fututres trading is always risky, I mean people in that end of Wall Street were pretty much backing Hillary, so...

Edit: I have a better question when was the last time all three branches had unilateral control?

 

[Grayfox]

America is going to regret this in the morning.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

America is going to regret this in the morning.

Why? He doesn't take over until January, that's when the regret will begin.

 

[Touring Mars]

Jesus wept...

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Jesus wept...

Collect them tears you'll need em, we all will.

 

[MXH]

 

[Slash]

Congratulations, Mr. President.

 

[TRGTspecialist]

According to the BBC they're seeing 100% of precincts in Pennsylvania reported, yet the networks still haven't called it strangely.

 

[Biggles]

The pundits have been busy writing off the Republicans due to "changing demographics" in the US, but they've just captured the White House, the House & the Senate. It will be interesting to see the polling stats, but I've got to assume they will indicate a really big turn out for white working class voters who either do not typically vote, or who have voted Democrat in the past. Correspondingly, a relatively low turn out for millennials & African Americans, not compensated for by a large enough increase in hispanic voting.

Weirdly, the GOP didn't do it with a "real" conservative, as the Tea Partiers have been pushing for for years, or a traditional centrist candidate like Romney, but with a wild card "idiot savant".

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

According to the BBC they're seeing 100% of precincts in Pennsylvania reported, yet the networks still haven't called it yet strangely.

It seems overseas polls have it called, Guardian has it too, and I've followed overseas cause they seem to be on point and faster about this.

 

[McLaren]

Pennsylvania has been recognized for Trump according to Fox; 274 electoral votes.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Well fututres trading is always risky

It wasn't just the futures market. Commodities and the value of the dollar also got pummeled.

 

[Johnnypenso]

According to the BBC they're seeing 100% of precincts in Pennsylvania reported, yet the networks still haven't called it yet strangely.

Fox is calling it for Trump...speech incoming. Clinton goes to bed. Trump is taking the air out of her balloon while she sleeps.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Wow my high must be leaving cause now it's just hit me this is real. I can't believe he got voted in...now I understand the brexit link.