Apparently some lines are going to possibly be 3-4 hours long in Nevada. This is an absolute disaster, far worse than Iowa. People are giving up because they have to go back to work.
THAT would explain why turnout is down compared to 2008. I could be wrong but I don't recall that happening eight years ago. So Brian Williams can STFU with that "excitement gap!" line he's pushing FFS…
Well, I actually think there is an excitement gap. That being said, someone like Trump or Cruz could end up bringing out a ton of moderate people that are just scared of those two so I'm not sure it matters as much as it would in most years.
Apparently the general manager at Caesar's Palace is giving his workers as much time as they need to vote and says he'll take the heat from the owners himself. Glad someone believes in democracy.
I was trying to make a joke, I'm not mad at you. Been seeing a lot of stupid comments at other places and probably picked the wrong place to joke about it. Sorry!
OK, whew. Because actually this is a really good thread. And that Jon Stewart pic is going in my save file.
Thanks! I've been seeing a lot of people saying they won't vote for the other candidate in a general election today, if you're wondering.
Pictures like that are why the internet is great. Mostly.
People in this country. It's like there was a sale at Target on Stupid pills. If Bernie Sanders is the Democratic candidate he will get my vote even though I'm voting Hillz in the primary. Good gawd, people are idiots.
I agree, I want Hillary to win but Bernie would be so much better than any of the other side.
Exit poll from Wonkville: 100% of Wonkvillians agree with the idea of a South Carolinian travel ban. Or mating ban. Or even just speaking. Just shut up, South Carolina. Go eat your grits or whatever it is you do in your swampy, retrograde state.
As far as I know, the entirety of South Carolina is a very gaudy rest stop that sells cheap cigarettes and fireworks. So many fireworks. [And inexplicably thinks it is Mexico.]
Hey, they have monuments to how great slavery was, too!
Let them build a wall to keep them out of U.S.!!!!!!!
Charleston is a beautiful place. Persons in slavery built it all, of course, but that makes it more beautiful in a terrible way. The old slave market is now a kind of upscale strip mall, with The Gap, Banana Republic, etc, in what were once the stalls where human beings were sold as property.
We had a fun incident here. Some idiots went around smashing mailboxes and security lights, about half of the mailboxes in the neighborhood. Mine was smashed almost flat. The police said the damage amount, totaled up, tops the felony threshold. So the idiot teenage boys that they suspect of the crime have a nice stay in juvenile hall to look forward to. This group of boys rides their skateboards very late at night, like: after midnight, in a noisy herd. Almost nightly. I always wonder what the heck are the parents doing, letting them do that. Training the next generation of ne're-do-wells, I guess.
Wow, what fucking morons. People just viewing breaking things as fun? Have fun in jail! I bet your parents will be proud of themselves for having their children behind bars too!
That sounds like what happened to my uncle last fall. He keeps a number of cars parked at his office space (he tests cars as part of his job) Over Thanksgiving, my cousin and his fiancee flew back to WI and also left their personal vehicles parked there, since they got their ride to the airport from there. Some little brats decided to amuse themselves by throwing rocks at all the cars, requiring many thousands of dollars in body work to repair. Unfortunately, it turned out that the damned police chief's nephew was the ring leader, so they didn't end up with any jail time, but the kids did have to pay full restitution, so there is that.
I just got back from walking my dog, and I talked with a neighbor up on the corner. She's got brickwork and wrought iron lights that are set into the top of brick pedestals. The little thugs pulled some of those lights literally out of the bricks, then broke off some of the iron pieces, which all had to have taken quite some strength.
Also, more interesting, they carved a swastika into the glass of one light, which basically narrows them down to a young group of idiots who live in the next town over (which starts on the next street) and who fancy themselves a white supremacist gang. In fact that neighbor told me that the cops have singled out three kids that they're pretty sure did it and they've turned the case over to the detectives.
Earlier tonight, CNN's John King, while describing Trump's voter support, drew, essentially, a giant cock and balls on a map of South Carolina. He then proceeded to "stroke" the "cock" repeatedly while talking about how "strong" the support for Trump was in those areas.
Please tell me there is a video of this somewhere.
"Mr. Trump has benefited so far from a fractious group of candidates running against him. But the results in South Carolina may narrow that field to a small and tenacious handful, possibly opening the way for a concerted challenge to Mr. Trump next month in delegate-rich states like Texas, Virginia and Florida."
Ha ha, small and tenacious: sounds like a certain vertically challanged young man from Florida. Trump will crush him like a palmetto bug.
10 REM Donald Trump's YOOOJ Victory Speech Program
20 REM Hencho en México
30 PRINT "We love" && stuff[X]
40 X = X .PLUS. 1
50 GOTO 30
60 REM IntenseDebate really doesn't like plus signs for some reason
70 REM /cough SQL injection /cough
And while Trump's speechifyings are predictable, they're at least tolerable. I'm beginning to think there should be a drinking game whenever Rubio mentions Reagan, or himself in the third person, or mentioning himself mentioning Reagan in the third person.
SC here: http://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/primaries/s…
SC Republicans vote to secede; wasn't even on the ballot.
@ydc226
Could be a problem at Caesars. Lines not moving and folks need to get back to work.
Remember that thing I mentioned with GOP possibly voting twice? IT'S HAPPENING!!!!
@RalstonReports
Report from field: Lots of new registrants, reports of GOPers switching to vote. "Overheard kids saying parents switch..to vote for Bernie."
@NateSilver538
Entrance polls flipped from showing a 3-point Clinton lead to a 2-point Sanders lead as more data was released.
Apparently some lines are going to possibly be 3-4 hours long in Nevada. This is an absolute disaster, far worse than Iowa. People are giving up because they have to go back to work.
THAT would explain why turnout is down compared to 2008. I could be wrong but I don't recall that happening eight years ago. So Brian Williams can STFU with that "excitement gap!" line he's pushing FFS…
Well, I actually think there is an excitement gap. That being said, someone like Trump or Cruz could end up bringing out a ton of moderate people that are just scared of those two so I'm not sure it matters as much as it would in most years.
https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/7011427447151… lmao
Updated link to a place where there's actual results, https://nvcaucuses.com/
421-418 Hillary so far.
Server error?
Ugh, wow, it keeps going down. They can't even get their servers right. http://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/primaries/n… Here's the NYT version again.
Apparently the general manager at Caesar's Palace is giving his workers as much time as they need to vote and says he'll take the heat from the owners himself. Glad someone believes in democracy.
3rd wave of entrance polling has Hillary up 1. This is going to be close.
Okay Democratic Caucus server is down. Moving to AP. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2016…
How do they break ties in Nevada? Drawing cards.
https://twitter.com/reidepstein/status/7011544372…
30% in from NV. Clinton 1412, Sanders 1334.
43% in. Hillary with 52%, Bernie with 48%. Most of the votes left are in Clark County. It's looking good for Hillary so far.
So what's going on in SC? The person who knows how to count didn't show-up?
They're still voting, so I don't think we'll see any results for at least 2 hours.
Yeah, realized after I typed that.
Sorry SC!!! [not really ]
What's the over-under on confederate flags at voting places?
AOT,K.
Clinton still up 52-48 with 52% of the vote counted.
MSNBC and Fox News both called it. Hillary Clinton wins the Nevada Caucuses.
Is Nevada winner-take-all?
Everything is proportional for the Democrats. Still, a win here dictates media coverage, which as we saw from both IA and NH, is huge.
Plus Superdelegates, I guess.
OT picture while we have the lull before SC Republicans:
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Generic election comment here.
Generic response about how I'm offended and you're literally Hitler here
Wait I'm not on Twitter nvm
<img src="http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/455/450/7c8.png" />
You've lost me. I didn't mean to offend you. I just am checking in on the election but couldn't think of anything trenchant to say.
ETA: Ah, OK, I should clarify: I wasn't characterizing your post, I was just trying to be funny and make a bland, general election comment.
Sorry, it's been a very long day.
I was trying to make a joke, I'm not mad at you. Been seeing a lot of stupid comments at other places and probably picked the wrong place to joke about it. Sorry!
OK, whew. Because actually this is a really good thread. And that Jon Stewart pic is going in my save file.
Thanks! I've been seeing a lot of people saying they won't vote for the other candidate in a general election today, if you're wondering.
Pictures like that are why the internet is great. Mostly.
People in this country. It's like there was a sale at Target on Stupid pills. If Bernie Sanders is the Democratic candidate he will get my vote even though I'm voting Hillz in the primary. Good gawd, people are idiots.
I agree, I want Hillary to win but Bernie would be so much better than any of the other side.
<img src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–D-ILlqpD–/id2cczfak6wolubgmah3.jpg" />
This.
Agreed and agreed!
Exit poll from SC: 75% of Republican voters agree with Trump's idea of a Muslim travel ban. That's really disturbing.
Exit poll from Wonkville: 100% of Wonkvillians agree with the idea of a South Carolinian travel ban. Or mating ban. Or even just speaking. Just shut up, South Carolina. Go eat your grits or whatever it is you do in your swampy, retrograde state.
I think South Carolina exists solely to stop North Carolina from sliding down into Florida.
South Carolina is the belt on North Carolina's gangsta pants.
As far as I know, the entirety of South Carolina is a very gaudy rest stop that sells cheap cigarettes and fireworks. So many fireworks. [And inexplicably thinks it is Mexico.]
Hey, they have monuments to how great slavery was, too!
Let them build a wall to keep them out of U.S.!!!!!!!
Charleston is a beautiful place. Persons in slavery built it all, of course, but that makes it more beautiful in a terrible way. The old slave market is now a kind of upscale strip mall, with The Gap, Banana Republic, etc, in what were once the stalls where human beings were sold as property.
Polls just closed in SC so we should get numbers soon.
Yay. Then I'm going to go walk my dog.
We had a fun incident here. Some idiots went around smashing mailboxes and security lights, about half of the mailboxes in the neighborhood. Mine was smashed almost flat. The police said the damage amount, totaled up, tops the felony threshold. So the idiot teenage boys that they suspect of the crime have a nice stay in juvenile hall to look forward to. This group of boys rides their skateboards very late at night, like: after midnight, in a noisy herd. Almost nightly. I always wonder what the heck are the parents doing, letting them do that. Training the next generation of ne're-do-wells, I guess.
Wow, what fucking morons. People just viewing breaking things as fun? Have fun in jail! I bet your parents will be proud of themselves for having their children behind bars too!
That sounds like what happened to my uncle last fall. He keeps a number of cars parked at his office space (he tests cars as part of his job) Over Thanksgiving, my cousin and his fiancee flew back to WI and also left their personal vehicles parked there, since they got their ride to the airport from there. Some little brats decided to amuse themselves by throwing rocks at all the cars, requiring many thousands of dollars in body work to repair. Unfortunately, it turned out that the damned police chief's nephew was the ring leader, so they didn't end up with any jail time, but the kids did have to pay full restitution, so there is that.
I just got back from walking my dog, and I talked with a neighbor up on the corner. She's got brickwork and wrought iron lights that are set into the top of brick pedestals. The little thugs pulled some of those lights literally out of the bricks, then broke off some of the iron pieces, which all had to have taken quite some strength.
Also, more interesting, they carved a swastika into the glass of one light, which basically narrows them down to a young group of idiots who live in the next town over (which starts on the next street) and who fancy themselves a white supremacist gang. In fact that neighbor told me that the cops have singled out three kids that they're pretty sure did it and they've turned the case over to the detectives.
Good! Hope they catch the brats.
First South Carolina exit polls: Trump 30, Cruz 26, Rubio 23, Bush 7, Kasich 7, Carson 7.
Third place! Rubio wins again!
Third place! Rubio wins again!
Let's dispel with the notion that Donald Trump doesn't know what he's doing.
|Do that rag|
SC just was projected to go to Donald Trump, less than 1% of the vote in. Seems like it won't be close.
BORKING NEWS: Donald Trump declared King of South Cackalacky!
They shall adorn him with a pile of yooge ham biscuits.
SC- 5% in
Trump 34.3%
Cruz 21.7%
Rubio 21.1%
Bush 9.5%
Kasich 7.3%
Carson 6.1%
zzzz SC is boring
SC-19% in
Trump 33.8%
Rubio 21.7%
Cruz 21.3%
Kasich 8.6%
Bush 8.5%
Carson 6.1%
Carson reportedly told his supporters "its just beginning"
That should keep the donations for his racket coming in for a little while longer.
He's emerging from his coma?
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43% in
Trump 34.3%
Cruz 21.6%
Rubio 21.2%
Bush 8.2%
Kasich 8.0%
Carson 6.6%
Earlier tonight, CNN's John King, while describing Trump's voter support, drew, essentially, a giant cock and balls on a map of South Carolina. He then proceeded to "stroke" the "cock" repeatedly while talking about how "strong" the support for Trump was in those areas.
Please tell me there is a video of this somewhere.
I so want to see this.
Me too. Gif it!
BREAKING: Jeb! Is dropping out.
¡qƎſ
So many tens of voters are now disappointed.
<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbYRDVrUUAAM0CD.jpg" />
I'm so sick of this clueless, resentful, entitled family. Good riddance.
It's kind of ironic or something that it was Heb! who finally brought the Bush name down.
Fuck, now I wish he had lasted longer so I could have used this gif.
SC-74%
Trump 33.1%
Rubio 22.3%
Cruz 21.7%
Bush 8.1%
Kasich 8.0%
Carson 6.9%
Make sure to get your Jeb! guacamole bowl before it's too late!
I'm guessing the media will call this a Rubio win as he's aiming at about 22-23% and 2nd or maybe 3rd place?
Perhaps this time he can keep his "victory" speech to 30 minutes of preening and crowing.
It's very satisfying to say: "So long, ¡Jeb! ¡Vete al infierno!"
Whistle past that graveyard, NYT:
"Mr. Trump has benefited so far from a fractious group of candidates running against him. But the results in South Carolina may narrow that field to a small and tenacious handful, possibly opening the way for a concerted challenge to Mr. Trump next month in delegate-rich states like Texas, Virginia and Florida."
Ha ha, small and tenacious: sounds like a certain vertically challanged young man from Florida. Trump will crush him like a palmetto bug.
2nd place is close.
97% in: Trump 32.6, Rubio 22.4, Cruz 22.3
10 REM Donald Trump's YOOOJ Victory Speech Program
20 REM Hencho en México
30 PRINT "We love" && stuff[X]
40 X = X .PLUS. 1
50 GOTO 30
60 REM IntenseDebate really doesn't like plus signs for some reason
70 REM /cough SQL injection /cough
And while Trump's speechifyings are predictable, they're at least tolerable. I'm beginning to think there should be a drinking game whenever Rubio mentions Reagan, or himself in the third person, or mentioning himself mentioning Reagan in the third person.
And did anybody else notice Trump using "we" when he referred to Ivanka having a babby?
HMMMMMMMmmmmmm……
Trump again. Time to get more liquor.
<img src="http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/037/811/23e.png" />
He can only "fix" elections in Florida.
In memoriam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quoPqs3xccE
|The Guardian has, arguably, the most annoying election results graphics on the Web.|
Larry Laffer/Roger Wilco 2016!
SOLVENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
100% better than Trump and I don't even know her.
Yeah, she sounds like a wise person.