For whom did you vote?

[Ivytalk]

And the winner, by a slim margin:

I know you want your sons to grow up to be just like him!

I wisht I could talk and stick out my tongue at the same time!

ALEPPO, MUTHAFUCKAS!

[YoUDeeMan]

Jill Stein demands a recount.

[BDKJMU]

So the 2 votes for Clinton were JSO and ??

[Ibanez]

So the 2 votes for Clinton were JSO and ??

Klean? Dal?

[GannonFan]

So the 2 votes for Clinton were JSO and ??

Well, based on his obsession here, it's possible that JSO voted for Hillary once with his regular voter registration, and then used his second voter registration to also vote for Hillary.

[hitchinaride]

I voted for Hillary. More of a go against the grain here in South Carolina where the right wingers believe America was "ordained by God" as some spiritual leader of the world to get them all to "Evangelical Protestant Heaven" while the rest of us "heathen" can go and burn for all eternity.

While I disdain the victim mentality of the left TEN FOLD, the extreme views of the right are just as annoying. I prefer third parties but both Stein and Johnson are idiots. I could've tolerated Hillary. Trump is just like Obama, another divider. While I do appreciate the cutting of funding for International PP, Trump is not "pro life". Who really is? If you endorse war, you are not pro life either.

God help us. Can't wait to see the circus in 2020.

[houndawg]

I voted for Hillary. More of a go against the grain here in South Carolina where the right wingers believe America was "ordained by God" as some spiritual leader of the world to get them all to "Evangelical Protestant Heaven" while the rest of us "heathen" can go and burn for all eternity.

While I disdain the victim mentality of the left TEN FOLD, the extreme views of the right are just as annoying. I prefer third parties but both Stein and Johnson are idiots. I could've tolerated Hillary. Trump is just like Obama, another divider. While I do appreciate the cutting of funding for International PP, Trump is not "pro life". Who really is? If you endorse war, you are not pro life either.

God help us. Can't wait to see the circus in 2020.

You won't have to - the entire House is up in '18...

[GannonFan]

I voted for Hillary. More of a go against the grain here in South Carolina where the right wingers believe America was "ordained by God" as some spiritual leader of the world to get them all to "Evangelical Protestant Heaven" while the rest of us "heathen" can go and burn for all eternity.

While I disdain the victim mentality of the left TEN FOLD, the extreme views of the right are just as annoying. I prefer third parties but both Stein and Johnson are idiots. I could've tolerated Hillary. Trump is just like Obama, another divider. While I do appreciate the cutting of funding for International PP, Trump is not "pro life". Who really is? If you endorse war, you are not pro life either.

God help us. Can't wait to see the circus in 2020.

You won't have to - the entire House is up in '18...

House elections are boring - there was something like less than 10 competitive races in the 435 races in 2016, so 2018 doesn't seem like it will be any different. It's 240 to 193 in favor of the GOP as it sits today (two seats are vacant) - it won't be until 2020 that there's any chance the House could flip the other way.

The Senate in 2018 could be very interesting - you could see a real big shift for the GOP - still won't be at filibuster proof numbers, but could add several to the 52 Senate seats they have now.

[Pwns]

If you voted for any of the top 4 candidates you are a dunderhead.

Spoiler: show

Pot, Meet Kettle.

[kalm]

If you voted for any of the top 4 candidates you are a dunderhead.

Spoiler: show

Pot, Meet Kettle.

Huh?

[89Hen]

If you voted for any of the top 4 candidates you are a dunderhead.

Agreed.

[OL FU]

If you voted for any of the top 4 candidates you are a dunderhead.

Spoiler: show

Pot, Meet Kettle.

Huh?

No shit. I have said much to 89's confusion that I voted for Johnson more to align myself with the libertarian view point than to align myself with Johnson. I have also said many times, I can't call myself a full blown libertarian just that my views point more in that direction and I would love to see the country move that way.

Never voted libertarian before in a presidential election, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity.

[CID1990]

Huh?

No ****. I have said much to 89's confusion that I voted for Johnson more to align myself with the libertarian view point than to align myself with Johnson. I have also said many times, I can't call myself a full blown libertarian just that my views point more in that direction and I would love to see the country move that way.

Never voted libertarian before in a presidential election, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity.

Welcome to the fold!

The Libertarian Party platform has some problems, particularly on borders and immigration- but taken as a whole the majority of my political leanings have a home in the LP- much more so than in the GOP. At one point I thought Paul Ryan had a grip on the fiscal situation in this country but it appears he's going to sign off on Trump's big spending .... so my last tie to the GOP is just about done.

Johnson is the least crazy person they have put up - and he does have executive experience... but until the Libertarians get a big name defection (not named Rand Paul) from the GOP I think they are going to remain in the wilderness. And that's a shame.

[Pwns]

Huh?

No shit. I have said much to 89's confusion that I voted for Johnson more to align myself with the libertarian view point than to align myself with Johnson. I have also said many times, I can't call myself a full blown libertarian just that my views point more in that direction and I would love to see the country move that way.

Never voted libertarian before in a presidential election, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity.

I voted for Gary Johnson FWIW. I just don't find libertarianism to be a viable economic policy.

If we're relying on the Elon Musks out there to reduce carbon emissions (assuming that's neccesary), cure Alzheimer's and cancer, bring about personalized medicine, and create the next generation of space technology we're not going to be competitive. We've got to invest in R&D if we want to get back to make America make things again.

That, and we're almost at the point where a dollar spent by a welfare baby momma is more beneficial than how a two millionth dollar will be used by a rich guy.

I have no problem with a protest vote, though, and if ever there was an election to do it, 2016 was it.

[89Hen]

No shit. I have said much to 89's confusion that I voted for Johnson more to align myself with the libertarian view point than to align myself with Johnson.

Nah, my "confusion" was more contempt for people that thought a vote for Johnson was really sticking it to the establishment. I correctly predicted that his vote total would be a drop in the bucket and the LP vote this election would barely be a footnote in history.

[SuperHornet]

You guys already know for whom I voted. A look at the final tallies doesn't PROVE that I was the only one to vote for her (mainly because no jurisdiction at any level is bothering to report write-in votes of less than about 90), but the assumption that I WAS the only one DOES look pretty good....

[AZGrizFan]

No shit. I have said much to 89's confusion that I voted for Johnson more to align myself with the libertarian view point than to align myself with Johnson.

Nah, my "confusion" was more contempt for people that thought a vote for Johnson was really sticking it to the establishment. I correctly predicted that his vote total would be a drop in the bucket and the LP vote this election would barely be a footnote in history.

4,053,546 votes nationwide. That's a big fucking drop.

Florida
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin

All four states were Clinton's had she been able to woo the Johnson voters (or had Johnson not been running).

That's 69 electoral college votes, and she's your president.

[Skjellyfetti]

89Hen wrote in Kasich, iirc.

What % of the vote did Kasich get?

[houndawg]

Nah, my "confusion" was more contempt for people that thought a vote for Johnson was really sticking it to the establishment. I correctly predicted that his vote total would be a drop in the bucket and the LP vote this election would barely be a footnote in history.

4,053,546 votes nationwide. That's a big **** drop.

Florida
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin

All four states were Clinton's had she been able to woo the Johnson voters (or had Johnson not been running).

That's 69 electoral college votes, and she's your president.

You think Hillary lost votes to Johnson?

[CID1990]

4,053,546 votes nationwide. That's a big **** drop.

Florida
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin

All four states were Clinton's had she been able to woo the Johnson voters (or had Johnson not been running).

That's 69 electoral college votes, and she's your president.

You think Hillary lost votes to Johnson?

I saw somewhere that Johnson votes were about 60-40 Dem to Rep. Pretty much every breakdown I have seen since the election had a higher number of disaffected Dems voting Johnson.

When you think about it, the Libertarian platform easily attracts social liberals who don't necessarily believe in the force of government (which appears to be a larger number than I would have guessed)

[houndawg]

You think Hillary lost votes to Johnson?

I saw somewhere that Johnson votes were about 60-40 Dem to Rep. Pretty much every breakdown I have seen since the election had a higher number of disaffected Dems voting Johnson.

When you think about it, the Libertarian platform easily attracts social liberals who don't necessarily believe in the force of government (which appears to be a larger number than I would have guessed)

Liberal rednecks a la Trae Crowder.

[kalm]

And the winner, by a slim margin:

I know you want your sons to grow up to be just like him!

I wisht I could talk and stick out my tongue at the same time!

ALEPPO, MUTHAFUCKAS!

If my sons became entrepreneurs, founding one of the largest construction firms in the state, went on to
be a widely popular two-term governor, and in their spare time competed in distance cycling races, and climbed Everest, let's just say I wouldn't be terribly dissappoimted. They're already goofballs so I might be able to look past that.

Then again, I'm more results and effort oriented and less about appearances...

[Skjellyfetti]

When you think about it, the Libertarian platform easily attracts social liberals who don't necessarily believe in the force of government (which appears to be a larger number than I would have guessed)

It is. And, I was one last election.

Nanny state / Social justice warriors are a blight to left like the religious right is to the right.

Seems like neither side is ever able to rid themselves of the other.

[kalm]

When you think about it, the Libertarian platform easily attracts social liberals who don't necessarily believe in the force of government (which appears to be a larger number than I would have guessed)

It is. And, I was one last election.

Nanny state / Social justice warriors are a blight to left like the religious right is to the right.

Seems like neither side is ever able to rid themselves of the other.

VERY good comparison.

[BDKJMU]

1992 Bill Clinton/HW Bush > Hillary Clinton/Trump
1992 Perot 19,743,821/18.91% > Johnson 4,489,233/3.27%

Heck, even in 1996 with Bill Clinton & Dole, and Perot already seen as nutty, Perot got over 8 million of a smaller electorate/8.4%.