American presidential election

[jamonwindeyer]

Results are firming for Trump, with the NY Times now giving him a 66% chance of victory. This is from an 80% chance of a Clinton victory when the count started; so momentum is well and truly with Trump.

TL;DR: gg world

In the 5 hours between walking into my exam and then getting home now, the feeling has changed massively. Absolutely bizarre!

[Dettol(forThatHealthyTouch)]

Results are firming for Trump, with the NY Times now giving him a 66% chance of victory. This is from an 80% chance of a Clinton victory when the count started; so momentum is well and truly with Trump.



TL;DR: gg world

It could possibly be. Currently trump has the lead in the big three states of Ohio Florida and north Carolina. He even has 137 to Clinton's 104 electoral votes(270 to win).

[vox nihili]

In the ten minutes since I wrote that post, it's now gone up to 80% likely Trump victory. Hilary still likely to win the popular vote though, by a margin of about 2% on these numbers.


Florida (a key state) is a almost certainly a Trump victory. With 95% counted and Trump up by two points, chances of a Hilary victory there are minuscule (she's not within cooee of the 95% CI). Virginia, on the other hand, looks as though it will go to the democracts now, so small mercies.


Other interesting tidbits:

-Hilary got absolute smashed in Arkansas (where Bill is from)
-She won in New York (where Trump is from, and she was senator)
-Hilary won her home state (Illinois) in a landslide

[Dettol(forThatHealthyTouch)]

this may blow your mind, it has been said that if trump manages to win the Ohio north Carolina and Florida, all he needs to do to win is basically just gain the votes of the states that are already traditionally republican. Since, his leading in all three, some, albeit by a relatively small amount, we may be looking at malcom turnball having talks with President Trump.

Also, it seems that share prices of major companies around the world are plummeting.
We may be also looking at some serious economic turmoil following this election.

[Joseph41]

[vox nihili]

90%


Absolute fucking insanity.

[Joseph41]

What the actual fuck is happening, here?

[ayesha2011t]

...this has to be some sort of sick joke.
There is no way an orange xenophobe who thinks he can 'grab her (ANY female) by the pussy' will be the next president of USA. No freaking way.

[elysepopplewell]

I'm panicked. That's all I can truly identify as a fact right now.

[brenden]

538 had Clinton at 45% 15 minutes ago and have just bumped her up to 50%. They predicted 50 states in 2012, I'm inclined to trust 'em haha, Western states will start coming in soon. Fingers. Crossed.

[jamonwindeyer]

Jfc...

[Dettol(forThatHealthyTouch)]

if you got american currency convert it now to aud.
the conversion rate 1.00 USD for 1.36 AUD.



Disclaimer
It may still be rising.
So usd currency is depreciating. 

[sweetiepi]

I just heard 93% chance for Trump...

[elysepopplewell]

...this has to be some sort of sick joke.
There is no way an orange xenophobe who thinks he can 'grab her (ANY female) by the pussy' will be the next president of USA. No freaking way.

I'm feeling super SUPER on edge with the normalisation of symbolic + sexual entitlement to women perpetrated by men like Trump, (and then manifested by young men like on the YTB Meet up page - Did this make Vic newsfeeds? Or just Syd?). YTB aside, Trump represents a harmful model of double standards and gendered entitlement and I do not want POTUS feeding into that, I want POTUS disrupting, DISMANTLING that.

[Joseph41]

Trump wins Florida.

EDIT: And Nick goes off to shower because he feels a little dirty.