[Pops]

Don't roll over, exercise your franchise!

[KaiserJeep]

...because it renews your license to complain about politics.

[Plantagenet]

I voted last Thursday.

I filled in the little circle for Julie Stein for President.

Its time to get rid of Obamacare and fix healthcare, democratize the economy, do something substantive about climate change, and push back against Wall Street and the establishment.

Go GREENS!

[dbruning]

No matter who wins this election, here's hoping whoever ends up in charge does a better job than expected.

Good luck to all of our friends down south.

[ritter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')I filled in the little circle for Julie Stein for President.

[careinke]

I planted a chestnut tree. Much more productive, and certainly less crooked.

[vox_mundi]

Feel free to move this to a more appropriate thread

Paraphrasing Carl von Clausewitz ...

Voting By Other Means: Multiple people shot near polling station; active shooter heavily armed

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')Police were responding to an active shooting near a polling place in Azusa Tuesday afternoon, with officials saying at least four people were shot.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Capt. Jeff Scroggins said police were dealing with at least one suspect who was heavily armed.

Few details were released about the shooting, which occurred sometime after 2 p.m. in a residential neighborhood in the area of Fourth Street and Orange Avenue, said Officer Jerry Willison of the Azusa Police Department.

“This is a very volatile and critical situation,” he said.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department reported firefighters were treating four patients, but their injuries were not immediately known because the situation was “not contained.”

Willison declined to provide the location of the shooting for the safety of the officers and the victims, he said.

Azusa police urged residents to stay out of the area and asked all residents to shelter in place.

It was unclear whether any officers were injured in the shooting, Willison said.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said they were assisting police.

Azusa Union School District issued a lockdown for Slauson Middle and Mountain View Elementary schools about 2:15 p.m., officials said. A nearby daycare center and preschool was also locked down.

[Sixstrings]

Maybe this can be the overall election thread, not H or T specifically.

Some breaking news on CNN..

Trump started out with a ten point lead in Florida results (carrying the rural parts). But now, Palm Beach county results came in with a big bunch of votes for Clinton so now she's in the lead:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')linton 1,389,000 49.5%
Trump 1,338,000 47.7%

[PeakOiler]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')I filled in the little circle for Julie Stein for President.

Go GREENS!

[Plantagenet]

Voter surveys show a really big Hispanic turnout in Florida. The networks are saying thats bad for Trump.

But the Cuban vote in Florida usually goes strongly R.

I guess we'll have to wait to see which way these nice folks actually voted.

Florida's always such a hot mess on election night anyway.

cheers!

[Sixstrings]

86% of the vote in.. and Trump is in the lead, by 700 votes.

And the counties yet to come in, may as well be Alabama.. it's the panhandle, just a couple counties out.

Trump may take Florida. It's close!

EDIT: Trump's running up a lead now, winning all the rural counties. But between Palm Beach, Miami-Dade and Broward, that's 30% of the population of the whole state. There's only 25% reporting in from Palm Beach -- so, that's a lot of Clinton votes that could be coming in to take the lead at the end (or not, some are predicting FL to go Trump, now).

[Rod_Cloutier]

As a Canadian I'm stunned by the bias from the various news feeds. You would think that news networks would be impartial.

I was watching a live feed from the Young Turks news and they have a clear Hillary bias, I got sick of watching that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZOW_9rVkdo

Then moved on to the live infowars broadcast; Alex Jones is clearly drunk on air, with a Trump bias.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEkGtX6sNPY

Where is the impartial news??

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Rod_Cloutier', 'W')here is the impartial news??

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Rod_Cloutier', '
')Where is the impartial news??

[Plantagenet]

I'm watching PBS. Its biased but at least they don't pretend to be anything other than the government sponsored liberal voice of reason.

The news moderators are big-time Hillary backers, but at least they bring in a range of commentators from both the Rs and the Ds.

Right now they are kind of down in the mouth on PBS because Hillary and the Ds aren't doing as well as they had hoped.

They just updated vote totals.

Jill Stein of the Green Party is getting 2%!!!!! YEAH!!!! GO GREENS GO!!!!

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'R')ight now they are kind of down in the mouth on PBS because Hillary and the Ds aren't doing as well as they had hoped.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'R')ight now they are kind of down in the mouth on PBS because Hillary and the Ds aren't doing as well as they had hoped.

[Rod_Cloutier]

Okay, I've spent the rest of the night watching Infowars (Even though Alex Jones is a raving madman) I turned back to Young Turks and I was even more disgusted by the 'Sore loser' behavior and I had to shut it off.

Just waiting for the Trump victory speech before going to bed. The economy is going to collapse now, but seeing that democracy still works was worth it...

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')
H*o*l*y* heck, Trump may win this thing.

[SeaGypsy]

He can't be as bad as Duterte.