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PoliGAF 2016 |OT15| Orange is the New Black

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Blader

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Let me ask something to those that probably know more than me...

1. You need to register to vote.
2. Why do you designate a party affiliation if you can just vote for anyone?
3. Said party affiliation during the primaries actually matters right? I recall people on both sides being upset they couldn't vote, and that apparently if you're registered independent you can go either way?

Thank you.

1. Yes.
2. It's for the primaries. Also makes it easier for campaigns to assess voter behavior after the fact, I guess.
3. In some states you don't to be affiliated with a party to register; those are open primaries. Other states have closed primaries, where to vote you have to be registered as a Republican or Democrat.
 
Why Our VoteCastr Data Has Been Slow to Come in Today


Earlier today, we went live with VoteCastr’s early vote numbers from a set of seven battleground states. You can check out our analysis of the data from Colorado and look at the early-vote numbers from Florida, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. VoteCastr is combining those early vote tallies with turnout-based estimates of votes being cast on Election Day to assess which candidate is leading in each of these states at any particular moment. You can now see those figures update on Slate in real time as they come in.

We had originally planned on bringing you those real-time estimates early this morning. There have been two issues, however, in getting this experiment off the ground. The first is that while VoteCastr’s trackers have been (and continue to be) out in the field today, VoteCastr’s data team ran into technical difficulties that prevented us from presenting that data on Slate. The second is that our data visualizations were designed to show a combination of early-vote and live turnout data. The unexpected delay before we started receiving that live turnout data meant our visualizations showed only early vote totals, which remained largely static this morning. Now that real-time turnout data has started pouring in, our visualizations should continue to update in real time.
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Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Why are people diablosing about turnout being good?

Turnout being good has never been better for Republicans.
 

Grym

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Loooolll, Clark County's response to that Trump lawsuit:

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lol awesome
 
+1 for Hillary and Eldridge in Arkansas. It was my first time voting in this state. I went during lunch and the whole process took a little less than a hour.

Neither have a shot of winning, but at least I live in the liberal part of the state. It's too bad Bill didn't set up shop here and at least make the Arkansas GOP sweat a little.
 

Oriel

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Frank Luntz says Clinton has a more than 95% chance of winning tonight......but Michigan could swing towards Trump. So there you go.
 

Joeytj

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Large turnout in Washington County, PA.

56% Romney.

Not hearing anything out of Philly though, anyone got something?

Man, you're just out there on the lookout for possible bad news, aren't you?

Washington County, from the looks of it, has been trending redder since 2000. John Kerry managed to win it by a slim margin, but Obama lost it twice.
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'm having my traditional Election Day freakout. Somebody talk me down.

I'm not sure which is better: liberal electoral panic or conservative electoral denial.
 

shiba5

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My super scientific poll:

I put a picture of Trump and a picture of Hillary in Peanut the Mouse's cage. Peanut pissed all over Trump.
Congrats Madam President.
 
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