Lock it up!
Lock it up!
Lock it up!
Lock it up!
Clinton Landslide: 350+ EVs
Clinton strong win: 325-350 EVs
Clinton solid win: 300-324 EVs
Clinton close win: 280-299 EVs
Clinton barely wins: 270-279 EVs
Tie: 269-269 EVs (also vote here if neither candidate get to 270)
Trump barely wins: 270-279 EVs
Trump close win: 280-299 EVs
Trump solid win: 300-324 EVs
Trump strong win: 325+ EVs
Lock it up!
Lock it up!
Lock it up!
Lock it up!
Randy Newman:
https://youtu.be/OHBtS9sSWns
James Brown:
https://youtu.be/8_ODghRTeyQ
Temptations:
https://youtu.be/-9poCAuYT-s
Good luck y'all. Go Duke.
Oh, and my best historical analogy for Trump: Grant. for so many reasons.
You'll thank me in future years, trust me.
As this thread winds to a close, I thought it might be fun to take a look back. There was no way I was going to go through all 16,000+ post, so I thought I would post some “highlights” from the first post of each of the 19 months this thread was active.
This is all intended in good fun, so apologies if any of the heavily edited content below misrepresents anyone.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread and special thanks to Jason for keeping it alive.
2-6-2015 (Post #1)
3-3-2015 (Post #109) This was actually the 2nd post of March 2015, but it is too good to leave out.
4-1-2015 (Post #220)
5-1-2015 (Post #268)
6-1-2015 (Post #319)
7-1-2015 (Post #366)
8-1-2015 (Post #577)
9-1-2015 (Post #1078) This was actually the final post of August 2015, but I had to include it because, well, how many other discussions of this year's election involved a thoughtful analysis of the 1848 race?
10-1-2015 (Post #1562)
11-1-2015 (Post #2081)
12-1-2015 (Post #2579)
1-1-2016 (Post #2940) Wouldn’t be a proper recap without a “New Hamster” from budwom
2-1-2016 (Post #3394)
3-1-2016 (Post #4230)
4-1-2016 (Post #5275)
5-1-2016 (Post #6003) More history
6-1-2016 (Post #7230)
7-1-2016 (Post #8025)
8-1-2016 (Post #9641)
9-1-2016 (Post #11078)
10-1-2016 (Post #12455)
11-1-2016 (Post #14800) This was actually the 8th post of the month, but it seems like a good place to end.
Thread.
Tchau for now...
Kyle gets BUCKETS!
https://youtu.be/NJWPASQZqLc
The time is almost here. Time to shut this bugger down.
It has been a fun ride. At times it has been frustrating and maddening -- keeping ya'll in line was not easy -- but I will mostly remember the fun. I thought of a bunch of things I wanted to say, but it felt too much like a eulogy and I did not want to go there. I merely leave you all with a hearty thanks. Thanks for participating; thanks for abiding by the rules (especially when the rules were not exactly clear); and thanks for just watching it all unfold.
It was a political season that started out as the most obvious and boring of races. We all predicted it would be Clinton vs Bush. We were all wrong. And up to the very end, the number of us who saw how things would really turn out was painfully small. I think even the folks who picked Trump in the poll were at least mildly surprised that it came out that way.
I have not discussed it with my fellow mods, but I hope we have shown we can play nicely in the sandbox and that we will be able to do this again -- certainly in 4 years and perhaps in 2. Until then...
As Sam Malone said as that last person came up to the door... "Sorry, we're closed."
-Jason "I leave it to a special person to post the last post in the thread... everything is a circle. CB&B, take us home..." Evans
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
"We love to look ahead and predict the future, and it's getting time to be that time of the political season where potential candidates are making themselves seriously known. (Whether they are taken seriously by anyone else is another story.)"
As House P reminded us above, those are the words that I opened this thread with. I don't think it is much of a stretch to say that none of us (except for NostraUdaman) could have predicted the amazing 640 plus days to follow after that first statement until Donald J. Trump was named President-Elect. This election has been an incredible journey, one that history courses will likely be formed around. I can easily say that I've never seen anything like this in my lifetime.
While the course of events have been stressful at times, this thread has been a wonderful and constant source of different viewpoints, moments of levity, and appreciated debate. The ideas shared here, in our (mostly) civil and thoughtful voices, have been a pleasant break from the cacophony of social media. As the sarcastic saying goes, "It's on the internet so it must be true"; happily that sarcasm is lost here.
As others have said, I'd like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Jason for doing his best to keep this thread in line. The other mods deserve thanks as well, but he captained the ship, making a stand for us a few times. I wonder how close we'd be to the LTE if he hadn't been kept so busy deleting PPB posts, haha!
The election is now over, and our country is going to face a new direction. Some of us aren't happy, some of us are. Eight years ago when Obama took office, there was an air of hope, uncertainty, and for some, fear. The exact same thing can be said today. Here we are, 8 years later having survived our last presidency, as we always do, envisioning where we go next. Our country is greater than one person; we are great because of the sum of our parts.
See you all in a couple years, as we begin the honored process again of deciding whether our direction is one we are happy with, or if we want a new path. - CB&B
USA!!!
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."