Election Night !

[mrerick]

In our North Carolina state elections, there has been a shift to the Republicans in the council of state. We look like we'll also maintain our super majorities in the legislature - both house and senate.

The Governor race is too close to call but the Republican is ahead.

The state was just called for Trump.

It's interesting to see all the pessimistic pro Clinton news spokespeople suddenly start sounding neutral (they way they should have been all during the past year)... They still can't help themselves though, putting lots of emphasis on how the uneducated are voting for Trump.

Best of all, all the polling is turning out to be inaccurate. I suspected that this might happen since all the more conservative people I know don't bother to pick up the phone and talk with the pollsters.

We are about to live in "interesting times"...

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by mrerick

It's interesting to see all the pessimistic pro Clinton news spokespeople suddenly start sounding neutral (they way they should have been all during the past year)... They still can't help themselves though, putting lots of emphasis on how the uneducated are voting for Trump...

I thought the CBS mouthpieces were overly optimistic about Clinton. They started the coverage at 7:00pm and they were smugly confident that the Clinton machine would carry the 'battleground' states. Then, at about 1:45am, they were at 215/244 with Trump in the lead and five 'battleground' states remaining (plus a couple others they had ignored all evening) and they were making noises about a Trump victory as inevitable.

The justifications they were bringoing up were ludricous. Single middle aged illiterate white suburban housewives swung the vote for Trump! Right!