A little after 8 p.m., panelists on MSNBC began hedging that if important swing states didn’t come through, Clinton’s path to victory would start to look narrow.
A little after 8:30 p.m., the New York Times’ Upshot Blog began nosediving in earnest, drawing a neat “X” in previously parallel data sets and flip flopping their election projections from 80 percent Clinton to 88 percent Trump.
Trump’s chance of winning is now at 88% — here’s how our presidential forecast has changed tonight: https://t.co/0HZ6lQJkEr pic.twitter.com/nL4IVswlLT
— NYT Graphics (@nytgraphics) November 9, 2016
At 10:30 p.m., James Carville drawled decisively that if the Democrats lost Michigan, “This puppy’s over.”
And throughout, Twitter became increasingly distraught in the face of a race that was much closer than many polls predicted.
People at Javits are crying and leaving.
— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) November 9, 2016
The only calming words I can offer are: hopefully everyone voted who cares about fighting authoritarianism. https://t.co/A5PIkMqEcc
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 9, 2016
Polling is dead.
— Daniel Hernandez (@longdrivesouth) November 9, 2016
I think it’s pretty safe to say that if you’re the kind of person on political twitter, you do not live in the country you think you do.
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) November 9, 2016
Here at the filing center for reporters at Camp Clinton at Javits and it’s seriously Like a funeral in here. pic.twitter.com/nS10cGP1XK
— Zack Fink (@ZackFinkNews) November 9, 2016
I’m sorry. Whatever the final results are, same conclusion: I don’t know my own country. We don’t know our own country
— Shadi Hamid (@shadihamid) November 9, 2016
Media focusing on how it’s a bad night for pollsters & other nonsense: We might be about to elect a dangerous sociopath to be the President.
— Scott Conroy (@ScottFConroy) November 9, 2016
Never gonna forget how it feels to know my that when my country had to choose between a woman and an actual monster for president, it went ?
— Laura Hudson (@laura_hudson) November 9, 2016
I truly thought I knew my country better than it turns out I did. I have warned that we could become a failed state, but didn’t realize 1/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 9, 2016
that it wasn’t just the radicalism of the GOP, but deep hatred in a large segment of the population. How do we move forward? 2/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 9, 2016
I don’t have any magical answers, guys. I am just trying to…I don’t even know. I am just hoping that Clinton pulls through.
— roxane gay (@rgay) November 9, 2016
I am so sick. As a woman, I cannot fathom voting for the candidate who admits to sexual assault. As a special education teacher, I cannot fathom voting for the candidate who ridicules people with disabilities. And as a person, I cannot fathom voting for a racist, xenophobic bigot.
The sad part is that I personally will likely be fine, since I am an upper-middle class white person (though I do have a uterus, so…there’s that). But so many people who I love will not. Ironic that pretty much everyone who actually VOTED for the asshole will not, either.
All I’ve got left is to look to the past and see if there is hope for the future.
This may be where we see a President actually more stupid than Bush. An apprentice as President… wow.
Yeah, how’d that work out for him?
I was wrong, wrong, wrong!!!
OK just fucking shit. Just change Missouri to Misery. We’ve got Greitens as a newbie Republican Gov., Blunt won’t go away for love or money, we passed photo ID ( and by the way when I showed them my passport they couldn’t find me and had to show my DL), we got a AG whose sole aim is to get rid of Planned Parenthood, and what ever I posted about being positive is crap.
I’m going to bed and read my book on the Roman Empire, I may just skip to the Vandals and Goths sacking Rome.