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Author Topic: American Election Megathread - It's Over  (Read 721184 times)

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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8160 on: November 06, 2012, 04:37:37 pm »

So what time do the polls close?
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8161 on: November 06, 2012, 04:38:43 pm »

If the previous post was correct, 7:30 local.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8162 on: November 06, 2012, 04:39:21 pm »

There was something you forgot: without a :P or [/sarcasm] or something similar, sarcasm doesn't transmit over the internet.
i imagined that the intentional misspelling of 'good' as 'gud' would make my sarcastic intentions clear

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So what time do the polls close?
the last one (alaska) closes at 1am eastern
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8163 on: November 06, 2012, 04:42:42 pm »

If the previous post was correct, 7:30 local.

My Ballot said 8pm (California)
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8164 on: November 06, 2012, 04:44:38 pm »

Most states are 8pm local, however Kentucky and Indiana close at 6pm EST, so starting from there is when we'll start seeing results.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8166 on: November 06, 2012, 04:48:47 pm »

CNN will have its results here: Election Results.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8167 on: November 06, 2012, 04:52:37 pm »

The BBC has a pretty good online section here, with live text and video updates, analysis and nice and complex results tracker.

YMMV with getting on the site though from outside the UK, but at least it has none of that political bias you guys seem so hot on cramming into your media.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8168 on: November 06, 2012, 05:13:59 pm »

But at least it has none of that political bias you guys seem so hot on cramming into your media.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8169 on: November 06, 2012, 05:26:44 pm »

On the whole "Voting machine changes votes to the person I did not want to vote for" thing, I have heard it both ways, so I suspect there are just a few bad voting machines.  Personally, I think that voting should be done on a ballot and a machine should be allowed to do the counting, nothing more.  But then you get a Florida in 2000.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8170 on: November 06, 2012, 05:31:30 pm »

The BBC has a pretty good online section here, with live text and video updates, analysis and nice and complex results tracker.

YMMV with getting on the site though from outside the UK, but at least it has none of that political bias you guys seem so hot on cramming into your media.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8171 on: November 06, 2012, 05:35:47 pm »

Figures that I'd come  down with a hellacious chest cold on the Big Day. I at least did manage to crawl out the door and go vote. But I'm probably taking heap big medicine and conking out during the returns.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8172 on: November 06, 2012, 05:38:32 pm »

All of NC has hellacious chest colds right now, apparently.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8173 on: November 06, 2012, 05:56:24 pm »

The most important state in this cycle might be Florida, not Ohio.

This is a fun one, especially since it makes it clear just what the odds are at the eleventh hour. Thankfully, Romney doesn't have much of a shot, but he could if he's lucky enough.

In a worst-case most plausible scenario, Romney takes NC, plus the two closest swing states (Colorado and Florida). Here, actually, he has an advantage in number of possible paths. If in addition he has Virginia, he will probably have it in the bag; he would have to win in addition only Ohio, or Wisconsin+[Iowa/NH/Nevada]; or, he takes all three of Iowa, Nevada and New Hampshire while losing Ohio. But I find that unlikely. Wisconsin is probably a safe Obama bet by now, and Nevada certainly is. Pretending that Mittens has North Carolina while Obama has Nevada and Wisconsin in the bag, Romney will have to win both Ohio and Florida to pull off a win; then he has to either win Virginia and something else or everything that isn't.

It will be interesting, but my money's on Obama.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8174 on: November 06, 2012, 05:58:01 pm »

The BBC has a pretty good online section here, with live text and video updates, analysis and nice and complex results tracker.

YMMV with getting on the site though from outside the UK, but at least it has none of that political bias you guys seem so hot on cramming into your media.
Finally, a site that's not actively trying to destroy my browser!
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