<![CDATA[Election Day]]>Looks like the browns board is back 🙂

Early thoughts:

1) The GOP is crushing it in Pinellas county Florida, where Obama won considerably in 2012 (+10000 votes as of right now)

2) It's raining in Michigan, which could reduce turnout and help Trump shatter the wall

3) Ohio seems closer than I expected, but likely still going Trump

]]>https://brownsboard.com/topic/44784/election-dayRSS for NodeThu, 01 Oct 2026 06:49:02 GMTTue, 08 Nov 2016 19:59:14 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Election Day on Thu, 10 Nov 2016 02:22:15 GMT]]>Fun to watch, but not a fun day at work after getting one a few hours sleep

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@tiamat63 said:

What establishment? House and Senate have been under and remain under GOP control.

Maybe we'll get a bunch of randoms/non politicians elected in 2 years

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@brownskidd said:

Agreed. This is a vote against the establishment and the MSM. And both parties should take note.

What establishment? House and Senate have been under and remain under GOP control.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/652780https://brownsboard.com/post/652780Thu, 10 Nov 2016 00:07:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Election Day on Wed, 09 Nov 2016 22:59:42 GMT]]>That was a fun election to watch. Early on the talking heads on Fox gave every indication Trump had no chance of winning. The look on their faces later in the evening when it finally hit them on the noggin and they said "Trump might actually win this thing" was priceless. They had totally bought into the pollsters and exit polling.

I thought Trump could win Ohio, North Carolina and Florida going into the election but my surprise of the night was Wisconsin and Pennsylvania going for Trump. Finally after many years of thinking Pennsylvania might flip red it actually did.

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@diehardbrownsfan said:

You could see on there faces how pissed they were this morning. I loved it.

Me too. Loving it right now!]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/652664https://brownsboard.com/post/652664Wed, 09 Nov 2016 18:15:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Election Day on Wed, 09 Nov 2016 18:14:42 GMT]]>

@clevfan4life said:

He wont. He'll do his own thing and in 4 years say fuck you i do what i want. I have zero doubt at some point he's gonna piss off even Ed when Ed learns trumpbwas full of shit. And i know he's gonna royally piss off the ultravrighties

You don't know shit. Go suck some Tim Kaine Lmao]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/652663https://brownsboard.com/post/652663Wed, 09 Nov 2016 18:14:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Election Day on Wed, 09 Nov 2016 18:06:21 GMT]]>We landed on the moon? Alright!

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]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/652651https://brownsboard.com/post/652651Wed, 09 Nov 2016 17:55:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Election Day on Wed, 09 Nov 2016 17:53:09 GMT]]>You could see on there faces how pissed they were this morning. I loved it.

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DieHardBrownsFan,

They said we could never do it.

But last night you showed the world that America will once again be a country of, for, and by the PEOPLE.

You fought like a winner, you defied all odds, and history will forever remember the role you played in taking our country back.

I never could’ve done it without you, DieHardBrownsFan.

Last night we learned that America is still a beacon of hope where the impossible is possible.

For far too long, we’ve heard Washington politicians give the excuse that “it can’t be done.” They say we can’t balance the budget, we can’t stop corruption, we can’t control the border, we can’t bring jobs back to our country.

I REFUSE to accept that it can’t be done. This is the country that declared its independence, won two world wars, and landed a man on the moon. This is America. We can and we WILL get it done.

Now it’s time to start uniting our country and binding the wounds of our divided nation. I promise to be a president for ALL Americans. I will work for you. I will fight for you. And I will win for you.

You will soon remember what it’s like to win as an American.

Thank you and God bless you,

Donald J. Trump

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@gftchris said:

But why should the one million people of rhode island get the same say as the 35m people of CA? And why is that not also the case with the electoral college? That seems odd?

Of course, this is just one of many flaws with democracy. Cure Winston Churchill quote.

They don't. They have many less electoral delegates. Why should Rhode Island be completely meaningless just allow California New York Texas and Illinois to run everything? Unless we are planning to change the Constitution and completely remove states rights and borders between states. That could be done in today's age of communications. For or against?

WSS

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]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/652639https://brownsboard.com/post/652639Wed, 09 Nov 2016 17:41:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Election Day on Wed, 09 Nov 2016 17:40:15 GMT]]>But why should the one million people of rhode island get the same say as the 35m people of CA? And why is that not also the case with the electoral college? That seems odd?

Of course, this is just one of many flaws with democracy. Cure Winston Churchill quote.

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@gftchris said:

BTW, we have an even less representative system over here, though power is slightly more diluted away from the leader. For example, the conservatives won 37% of the vote in 2015, and 50% of the seats. Labour won 33% of the votes, and 39% of the seats. UKIP and LibDem both got about 15% of the votes, and got 1 and 8 seats respectively.

So please don't think I'm here saying "your country sucks, mine is great".

Now that's out of the way, 'avoiding concentrations of power' is another way of saying 'diluting power away from cities'. So why is that a good thing? I'm not saying it's not, I'm just asking why.

I would think it would be to keep other parts of the country to keep from being left out and ignored. A huge state like California gets the same two senators that the smallest state of Rhode Island gets. In setting up our government the founders were concerned about concentration of power and having checks and balances of power. It has worked well.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/652634https://brownsboard.com/post/652634Wed, 09 Nov 2016 17:36:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Election Day on Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:14:33 GMT]]>BTW, we have an even less representative system over here, though power is slightly more diluted away from the leader. For example, the conservatives won 37% of the vote in 2015, and 50% of the seats. Labour won 33% of the votes, and 39% of the seats. UKIP and LibDem both got about 15% of the votes, and got 1 and 8 seats respectively.

So please don't think I'm here saying "your country sucks, mine is great".

Now that's out of the way, 'avoiding concentrations of power' is another way of saying 'diluting power away from cities'. So why is that a good thing? I'm not saying it's not, I'm just asking why.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/652453https://brownsboard.com/post/652453Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:14:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Election Day on Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:14:31 GMT]]>If we didn't have the electoral college we might as well have nobody vote except California and NY

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@gftchris said:

Why is it though that a vote should count for less if you live in a city?

In a large state like California the party that wins gets the lion's share of the electoral votes as compared to smaller states so it is not like the winning party in a state like California does not get rewarded....the founders of the country deliberately set up a system where we do not have direct voting to avoid concentrations of power in certain areas of the country

Why We Use Electoral College, Not Popular Vote

http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/07/why-the-founders-created-the-electoral-college/

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/652446https://brownsboard.com/post/652446Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:07:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Election Day on Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:06:57 GMT]]>He wont. He'll do his own thing and in 4 years say fuck you i do what i want. I have zero doubt at some point he's gonna piss off even Ed when Ed learns trumpbwas full of shit. And i know he's gonna royally piss off the ultravrighties

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/652444https://brownsboard.com/post/652444Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:06:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Election Day on Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:02:47 GMT]]>I will say, I hope Trump is good on his word to represent everybody because there's a lot of scared lgbt/muslim people out there right now that are worried that extreme section of trump's support is going to see this as a license to ramp up the attacks.

His acceptance speech was quite decent, except when he interjected his Trumpisms, and part of me still suspects he was playing up some of the rhetoric to get votes. So let's see what his mysterious plans are, give him a couple of years, and if we're still 3-13 or 4-12...wait, I got sidetracked. If things are still a shit show then, as said elsewhere, there'll be a backlash, and if things are actually pretty good then great!

I didn't believe he could or would win, but I've been wrong before and I'll be wrong again in the future. Let's just hope he can bring people together after this.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/652440https://brownsboard.com/post/652440Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:02:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Election Day on Wed, 09 Nov 2016 13:43:09 GMT]]>Democrats shouldn't have turned their back on the working class

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