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QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Nov 8, 2016 -> 03:14 PM) http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2016/11/08/...-head-to-polls/ How is this even possible? Why would the voting machine have such a feature? That usually means the touch screen isn't calibrated correctly

Coulter Says Trump Wins Easily If Only People with 4 American-Born Grandparents Vote This is funny because neither Trump nor his kids meet this criteria, and almost all black Americans do, and probably a lot more Mexicans than she thinks.

Damn man, we are over halfway through the election and the score is 0-0. Defensive struggle.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 8, 2016 -> 12:48 PM) Trump's filed his first election lawsuit already. He's gonna lose that - if they're in line, they vote. NV Dems anticipated this already.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 8, 2016 -> 12:03 PM) Reminder also that VA will look red early on, but then NOVA will report and that'll be the end of that. Same for the electoral count too. Republicans always lead early because states like KY close first and report early before big states like NY close.

Voting for judges is pretty dumb. That's almost impossible to keep track of. Cook County actually has bar associations that endorse, I went by what the Maryland State Bar Association recommended and they say retain all judges for continuity so that's what I did.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Nov 8, 2016 -> 10:44 AM) Around what time tonight do you think we know the outcome? Outside of something crazy happening. Both times they called it for Obama at 11 EST but anyone watching the electoral count knew a couple hours before then. Watch the calls for PA, VA, and NH (which she should hold), then if Clinton wins either of FL or NC the election, it's over for Trump, he has no path to 270 because she will get CO, NM, and NV when they start calling the western states. She will probably lose OH, but she doesn't need it this time.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Nov 8, 2016 -> 10:26 AM) He looks good. Christie and Giuliani come out the worst of the election season. Rudy was the 9/11 Country's Mayor whom everyone thought they adored. Now he's just a weirdo. I am ready to sit down with a cold one and consume election coverage all night long. The postmortem coverage after a Trump loss will be SO much easier to consume for me.

Pace didn't so much get rid of so many of Emery's players because all of the Emery players were bad, so much as they would've been useless in a 3-4 and they had no place in the new system. They kept guys like Houston and Young though.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 7, 2016 -> 06:36 PM) Such a dumb rule. Given all the stuff about player safety, I don't really understand why they limit it so much. I would think at least having two spots back would make sense (while freeing up roster spots for others). Is the fear you would just hide people on this IR or something? The Patriots would keep like 20 players on IR.

I voted as soon as my polling place opened, there was a line, it took about 20-30 minutes (far shorter than it took to early vote). Line was nowhere near as long as it was in 2008, that took a lot of the people away. I don't know what it's like later in the day though.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 7, 2016 -> 12:37 PM) I don't think Comey's actions were partisan, I think they were political to pre-emptively respond to attacks of them trying to "cover up" the investigation if htey were working on it. It's political in trying to preserve FBI integrity. But because his letter was so vague, all of the agents leaked out the motivations and details. It was a mess and entirely predictable and a reason why this doesn't happen. It's hard for people outside that law enforcement world to understand what it means when a letter like that gets introduced. Not Comey, but the mid-level employees. That type of nonsense is supposed to be beneath them.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 7, 2016 -> 12:24 PM) Has been pointed out - IRS was able to get through this thing without the high profile leak (the NY Times leak was clearly not from IRS). The last two weeks of FBI leaks are embarrassing for them. Comey needs to clean house. I have a different opinion of them than most of the public, but I was still surprised by the rank unprofessionalism from them. Especially the New York office.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 7, 2016 -> 11:57 AM) But I read an article that says she is hiding something and all of this looks bad. There was a guy on Rush Limbaugh's show that went into all sorts of details on why this is so shady. Let me ask you, do you think that she will be effective for her 8 years while her daughter gets political experience or will she be indicted and go to prison? I just don't see how anyone can vote for her as she is the worst candidate ever. I think Trump is awful too but she is on another level. I will likely just write in Ozzie Guillen since he knows how to get people excited. It should've been obvious that the vast majority of those e-mails had already been seen, since they'd been on her server, and that's how e-mail works edit: I replied to the wrong post, but lol

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 7, 2016 -> 10:27 AM) I think the problem is the opposite. The radicals on the wings are the ones who are most motivated to vote. It is the middle that feels that there is nothing for them, so they don't vote. That's a fair take actually. Only committed partisans and party loyalists tend to vote in primaries (something a lot of Bernie supporters had trouble understanding in the primaries imo).

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 7, 2016 -> 10:19 AM) OTOH Brazil mandates voting and that is a much worse system. My logic for that is "if 40% of people can't be bothered to vote, and you force them to, what kind of s***bags would they vote for? Then I saw that people freely nominated Donald Trump so now I'm not so sure.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 7, 2016 -> 10:11 AM) Honestly I don't care about it either way, but when the conversations turns to a holiday or moving the date being something that would increase turnout, I don't see it being true. Even with having an entire month to vote early, people still don't make the effort. I don't see any of the other solutions around changing the election date fixing anything either. People who want to vote, figure it out. Those that don't make up excuses to not vote. Honestly I'm not even going that far. Voting on Tuesday is personally inconvenient and annoying to ME. And I'm about as reliable a voter as a 67-year white man from Tennessee who watches Fox News 5 hours a day.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 7, 2016 -> 10:07 AM) Being in an extremist Democratic town and county (we literally haven't had a Republican elected to a local office since before the Bears won a Super Bowl) I am truly familiar with their operations. Heck, they pull vans up to all of the nursing homes, bus people from the factories (well the ones that are left) and anything else they can do for a vote. But we still have horrible turn out numbers. Really the numbers aren't much better for the state or the nation. f***ing Iran has turnout numbers that blow ours out of the water. Their off-year elections are higher than our record turnout (2008).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 7, 2016 -> 09:55 AM) We have something like a month of early voting in Indiana. It hasn't helped turnout at all. Turnout revolves around the candidates. GOTV operations are fundamentally different for Dems vs GOP. Dems are usually in dense urban areas, Republicans are in suburban and rural areas as a rule of thumb, so Dems do these things in shifts and try to get as many people to vote before the actual election day. Not as much of a factor with Republicans, they're not out canvassing neighborhoods for several hours at a time, it wouldn't really be a productive use of their time. I'm oversimplifying but I think that's the gist.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 7, 2016 -> 09:32 AM) It's always more of an issue in bigger cities, and especially in heavily Democratic areas in Republican-run states. A big city should ideally have dozens, or hundreds of precincts open on Election Day. It's pretty easy to f*** with that if you want to.

QUOTE (Deadpool @ Nov 7, 2016 -> 09:22 AM) It's hard to blame Silver for running his system the way he does. He's left a lot of room for error for himself if Trump becomes President. I voted two weeks ago, but I'm really interested to see how crazy the lines get in swing states. It would be a real shame if people like you never get to exercise their civic duties. Election Day needs to be a national holiday on the order of Christmas. Everyone needs to be afforded the right to vote without worrying about lines getting into their hectic lives. The GOP would never go for it, seeing as there are a lot more Dems than Republicans nationally. If not a national holiday, then it should be on a Saturday. Given that Article II of the Constitution doesn't say it has to be on a Tuesday and we haven't been an agrarian society for over a century now, there's really no reason Congress couldn't move it. If they wanted to.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 7, 2016 -> 09:19 AM) I was thinking about voting early on Saturday. They had it at a library near me. My wife voted early last week. The line on Saturday was at least a block long. I was amazed. So I passed. It usually isn't very long when I go in the regular place. I just wanted to be done with it. early voting was on the ballot in Maryland in '08 IIRC and that is the last time I've been to vote on Election Day. Since then I've early voted in '10, '12, and '14. I find the experience to be overrated, the line is hundreds of people long (looks like one of those problematic lines they show you on TV from Florida or Ohio). In 2012 I went there in the first quarter of the Bears-Panthers game and by the time I got back home the game had been over for about an hour. I guess it'd be convenient if I couldn't vote on Election Day but from now on I'm just gonna keep voting before I go to work.

Nate Silver is taking heat from people from not including early voting totals in his forecasting model but the thing is, based on the way he does his math, I don't think he knows how. He'd be measuring two different things. Early voting isn't polls, it's people who've already voted, so he'd be trying to combine a measured guess against. He's built his brand off the public polling system from 2008, but it's changed since then.

Rose always outplays Rondo no matter what teams they're on.

Mary Mapes's career was killed, and Dan Rather's reputation forever tainted, for a lesser offense than what Brett Baer did pushing that phony "indictment" story for 3 days.