And the winner of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, as reported by the major mainstream media outlets is Donald Trump. It has also been reported that Hillary Clinton called President-elect Donald Trump to concede.
Electoral vote count (so far): 279 for Donald Trump, 218 for Hillary Clinton. 270 electoral votes are needed to win.
Popular vote: 57,227,164 votes (48.0%) for Donald Trump, 56,279,305 votes (47.2%) for Hillary Clinton. Update: Now it is closer to 59,085,795 votes (47.5%) for Donald Trump and 59,236,903 votes (47.6%) for Hillary Clinton.
Yell, scream, gnash teeth... but please keep it civil.
Results at CNN, NYT, FiveThirtyEight, Wikipedia.
takyon: Republicans have retained control of the House and Senate.
Here's some market news:
Dow futures plunge nearly 750 points as investors warily eye electoral map
Asian markets plummet on likelihood of Trump victory
Bitcoin price soars as Trump pulls ahead
Opinion: How to profit from a Donald Trump victory
Ballot measure results will be covered in an upcoming story. Some initial results can be found at Ballotpedia and CNN.
[TMB Note: Stop breaking stuff, cmn32480]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:50AM
Bullying and authoritarianism won big.
It wouldn't have won any smaller with Clinton. At least Trump can be impeached, should he cross the line.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:38PM
She's an authoritarian for sure, but far, far less than him; his authoritarianism is practically off the charts [politicalcompass.org], the most authoritarian president we've ever had by far. And him getting impeached, which is inevitable I believe, but that leaves us with that disgusting fascist theocrat Mike fucking Pence as president, who will be way worse.
(Score: 2) by BK on Wednesday November 09 2016, @06:16PM
So Trump chose a good VP then?
I've long said that Dick Cheney was a great VP. Not for anything that he did or didn't do, but rather for the fact that the one thing that the haters hated more than W was the thought that Cheney would be in charge if W were removed. You seem to be saying that it's the same with Pence...
...but you HAVE heard of me.