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And the winner is.....

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @12:10PM   
from the not-the-people dept.

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]

• Re: F You from Flyover CountryRe: F You from Flyover Country (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @02:30AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @02:30AM (#424962)

  Taking the exchange as-is without outside context, it looks like you're either doggedly searching for something to be offended about, or you have a piss-poor opinion of women and are projecting that.

  It also occurs to me that maybe Phoenix is female and objects (as a woman) to being called a girl? Forgetting that by posting as Phoenix we dont know that and so an unintended insult occurred. Hmmm. Must admit Phoenix being female hadnt occurred to me before but now I look at their posts again, its plausible. Not that I care either way, just greatfull for all his/her posts!

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• Re: F You from Flyover CountryRe: F You from Flyover Country (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:44AM

  by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:44AM (#425090) Journal

  No, very much male. My reaction was born of frustration at trying very hard to give even the most vituperative members of the SN community their due on an emotionally charged subject, only to have it repaid with churlish, sophomoric quips.

  --
  Washington DC delenda est.

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  • Re: F You from Flyover Country(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:57AM (#425092)

    The other possibility is maybe you're an asshole?

    Just putting it out there.

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