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: 5, Funny) by q.kontinuum on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:12AM
Now we will never legalize Cannabis in Europe. Everyone will just point at the US and tell us "This is what happens with a country on drugs!"
Registered IRC nick on chat.soylentnews.org: qkontinuum
(Score: 4, Touché) by EvilSS on Wednesday November 09 2016, @01:51PM
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:33PM
With Trump in office we're gonna need a LOT of weed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:37PM
So people voted for Trump in order to have an excuse for smoking weed? :-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:04PM
Well the Clintons were the ones who came up with 3 strikes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @07:11PM
I prefer the shrooms.
http://www.shroomery.org [shroomery.org]