Election Day Poll No. Whatever

Anyone have any suggestions for channels to watch for results tomorrow for a moderate with a bottle of 15-year Macallan?

 

Don't know. Before Comey's misadventure at the end of October I was contemplating hate-watching Fox News, but not feeling quite that frisky now.

 

LOL! I will probably check out C-SPAN. Fewer talking heads.

 

We need more Talking Heads. If David Byrne anchored coverage on VH1 (I guess now MTV) Classic, I'd watch the shit out of that.

 

Results of the poll on this thread show Trump is headed for a beating worse than a typical Browns game.

 

Well, obviously not the "moderate" channel, but MSNBC will have Tom Brokaw and Rachel Maddow, both of whom I think are great on election coverage. So that's where I'll be. I think Chuck Todd is pretty good. And Steve Kornacki is very good at breaking down numbers.

CNN is too many voices and yelling. And Fox News can go fuck itself.

 

Clinton.

Despite all her faults -- and they are many -- she's the only adult in the room. I don't see how women, or blacks, or Hispanics or Muslims vote for Trump based on how he has demonized every one of them.

For all the predictions of social unrest from Trump supporters if he loses, I'm starting to think it will be more like the end of The Truman Show: Once it (in this case, the election) ends, everyone will just move on to consuming something else. To put it another way, I don't think the folks who froth at the mouth at Trump rallies are typical of the vast majority of Republican voters. Real armed sedition would be crushed in a week.

 

"I don't think you have a very good voice. But you're a singer. How do you do that?"

 

Last Post/ABC poll, released this afternoon, shows Clinton leads 47-43, but those who said they voted early (that's 43 million people now, almost a third) chose her 55-40. That's an enormous disparity. I know I've posted on this before, but that seems like a bigger disparity than can be explained by just a turnout operation.

 

It's likely explained by "they're not a representative group of voters." For example, less reason to vote early if you're retired and can go to the polls @ 10 am on election day when it's empty because everyone else is working (as an example, don't have data that early voters skew young, but it wouldn't surprise me).

 

Actually, older voters (like me!) are big users of early voting. You could be right they're not representative, but it's difficult for me to believe that one-third of the electorate, selected by their own decisions, are wildly unrepresentative of the whole.