8:27 PM: Really hard to say with any certainty. But it’s looking like Trump got a big surge of rural white votes in the Florida panhandle. This looks like it’s going to be really tight in Florida.
8:22 PM: We could be at this for a while.
8:16 PM: Florida is really tight. But it seems like Clinton should have a decent amount of votes in South Florida to pull it out. Should.
8:07 PM: We’re still trying to resolve some technical issues with our results scoreboard. We hope to have it back shortly.
8:05 PM: I’m not sure entirely what they meant. But a short time ago a CNN reporter said that the Trump campaign had no visibility into the choices of non-party-declared voters in Florida. That they were flying blind essentially. That can mean a lot of things. But it sounded liked a catastrophic failure to collect the kind of data campaigns now usually have at their disposal. Curious to hear more about that.
8:02 PM: Results are coming in pretty rapidly now.
7:53 PM: From what I can see Florida is looking fairly good for Clinton. Not done but pretty encouraging for Clinton.
7:35 PM: We are having some load issues with our election results console. Hope to have it back momentarily.
7:30 PM: Bunch more states, lot of ‘too early to calls’.
7:00 PM: And here we go. 7pm first big batch of states.
6:55 PM: Good grief. Pat Toomey just announced that he did vote for Donald Trump after all. He resisted answering this question or perhaps even deciding until now.
6:49 PM: BREAKING: We have a breaking story out of California: a shooting near a polling station in Azusa. One person dead, three injured and an active shooter situation. It is not clear yet whether this incident is tied to the election or the polling station or just happens to be proximate to a polling place. More as we get more information.
6:45 PM: All the hints over recent days about Florida and Democratic turnout seem like they’re turning out. Record turnout in Broward County, which is of course a key Democratic bastion in the state.
6:43 PM: TPM Reader DW is all set …
Josh,
Been reading for 15 years and it keeps getting better and better. Well done, sir! Here’s our Harlem spread tonight…
Blueberry Moonshine “Donkey Punch”
Cranberry Moonshine “Elephant Blood”
Blue and red chips.
Taco bowls.
7 Circles of Hell Layer Dip
Blue Cornbread
Cheers!
6:34 PM: Keep an eye on a court case being argued right now in North Carolina over whether some precincts stay open. Also keep an eye on the Missouri Senate race.
6:26 PM: While we’re waiting, our election results console wait till a state has at least 10% of precincts reporting before coloring it in a light version of red or blue to showing who is leading as the results come in. Click through on the map to the right of the blog to get down to individual states, districts and counties. The rest should be self-explanatory. At 7pm we’re have partial or complete poll closings in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia and New Hampshire. At 7:30pm we’ll have North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia.
6:06 PM: Well, as you can see, with results almost all from Kentucky, Donald Trump has a rather substantial popular vote lead in percentage terms! For the full live election results console click here.
5:35 PM: This is probably not as bad as it sounds, but certainly a little bumpiness.
Breaking: announcement just made at Denver Elections Office that all state systems are down. #9news #election2016 pic.twitter.com/Opt1c7iR4a
— Jessica Oh (@Jessica9NEWS) November 8, 2016
Note that Donald Trump has been out today questioning the legitimacy of the election on various fronts – in the courts, on Twitter. That makes sense (in his warped mind), given the early indications we’re seeing.
Okay, folks. Here we go. A bit later we’re going to put the election results scoreboard up on the front page. We will have results from all federal elections – president, senate, house plus governors. We will also have results down to the county level. And we’ll present those results side by side with the 2012 results down to the county level. That will allow you to get a sense of how things compare to the 2012. More shortly.
A brief reminder, folks. First wave exit polls are almost always revised. They are often revised enough to predict a different winner by the final wave. They are not infrequently wrong.
I confess, every election these pictures and stories nourish, enliven and inspire me. Thank you all for sharing them.
TPM Reader BW: “My wife and our two sons here in Madison, Wisconsin. We could have voted early, but we’re Native Americans, and we want to show our two boys how important it is for everyone in Indian Country to vote in each and every election. It’s now another one of our family traditions.”
The Judge who held a hearing this morning about Trump’s Nevada lawsuit did not seem very impressed. And it turns out that the lawyers who brought the suit on Trump’s behalf are a construction and commercial insurance lawyer and construction and family law attorney. In other words, not election lawyers.
TPM Reader PH was waiting in line at her precinct in Manhattan when all of a sudden the Secret Service and the Trump family shows up.
I was standing in line inside PS 59 in midtown and security told all of us to stand against wall. In walks Ivanka, her husband, Melania and Donald. One guy on line yelled “You’ll never win!”
The Trump campaign is suing the registrar of Clark County, Nevada, for doing something the law expressly requires – leaving voting stations open to allow everyone to vote who was in line when the voting station closed.
I’m curious on this whether they have an actual election lawyer filing this suit or whether it’s one of Trump’s goofball lawyers. It seems dead on arrival.
Update: This challenge seems so flatly contradicted by state law that it seems pretty clear that this isn’t a serious legal challenge but an effort to undermine the eventual result.