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I voted!

66 (36.3%)

I did not vote!

13 (7.1%)

I can't vote, for reasons!

21 (11.5%)

I'm not a United Statsian, but I want to see the poll results!

82 (45.1%)

Total Members Voted: 181

[Tomasque]

Older persons who've seen many more elections, please offer some hope that everything will be okay in 4 years.

I don't know, man. I suggest going to space - the kickstarter's almost funded.

[Cthulhu]

I did not vote because I don't believe citizens should elect the President, and maybe anything else too.

[Frumple]

Still a chance it goes sanity. Increasingly unlikely, though.

As for being okay, no. Not much of a chance of that.

[Cthulhu]

There isn't.  America just got memed.

[Eric Blank]

I couldnt vote on account of being stuck at home with no gas and we didnt get/ask for absentee ballots. :v

I'm with weird;

(Regardless of which wins, we will get the president our nation deserves. I will leave it at that.)

[Kassire]

I for one, welcome our Wall-Building overlords 

[Aklyon]

Wall will never happen anyways, unless he claws the money out of congress' budget argument through an act of god.

[Eric Blank]

Obama has made a good precedent for bypassing congress through executive orders. I bet he's at least going to try.

[Interus]

I had a local vote on whether or not alcohol can be sold in a place that gets 30% or more of its income from food and nowhere else. Just in case you were wondering if any places still liked the idea of prohibition.

[Darkmere]

Older persons who've seen many more elections, please offer some hope that everything will be okay in 4 years.

Winner does nothing for 4 years, wins a re-election by a landslide unless someone actually films them taking candy from a baby in times square, then runs through with a flamethrower on their way out 2-3 years later.

Next election, everyone is infuriated at the State of Things and we switch back to whatever political team isn't currently in power.

Repeat.

[Neonivek]

Obama has made a good precedent for bypassing congress through executive orders. I bet he's at least going to try.

At least in his case a lot of the time it was fulfilling his campaign promises... albeit in a cruddy fashion (though not entirely his fault)

[Aqizzar]

Still a chance it goes sanity. Increasingly unlikely, though.

With Wisconsin effectively called for Trump (nobody believes it strongly enough to say so yet, but it is), and Clinton trailing by 4% in Arizona, she would have to win Michigan and New Hampshire to reach 269.  And that's including Pennsylvania, which Trump is slightly leading right now.

The way is shut, the dead keep it.

[WillowLuman]

Older persons who've seen many more elections, please offer some hope that everything will be okay in 4 years.

Winner does nothing for 4 years, wins a re-election by a landslide unless someone actually films them taking candy from a baby in times square, then runs through with a flamethrower on their way out 2-3 years later.

Next election, everyone is infuriated at the State of Things and we switch back to whatever political team isn't currently in power.

Repeat.

Can you recall an election with such a sour tone and so much foul play? I can only remember the 2nd Bush and the two Obama ones, and they weren't nearly this mean.

[Neonivek]

Kind of hilarious actually.

Bush's election involved outright bastardry and people were WAAAY more ok with Bush winning... then they are with Trump winning (or likely Hillary too)

[Darkmere]

Foul play? look up pregnant chads. Bush basically stole the presidency if any of the Florida crap was true at all.

Bush/Gore was extremely irritating because you saw exactly how stupid people can be.
Bush was on a platform of "I'd have a beer with that guy" and that's how he got elected.

Clinton/Dole/Perot was just hilarious. Comedy at its finest.

There's usually a little more decorum in front of the scumbag politics, but not much more. Also the degree of criminality of both parties usually gets held in reserve for power plays by the senate minority AFTER the election, but there's been enough turmoil lately that people are out for blood, so the campaigns play on that.