News Experience the Polling Line: Share Yours & Track Results

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Voters are sharing their experiences at polling places, with some reporting long lines and others finding no wait at all. A transit strike in Philadelphia was resolved just before Election Day, alleviating potential issues for voters. Many participants expressed concerns about the impact of third-party candidates and non-votes on the election outcome. Some individuals chose to abstain from voting for president, citing dissatisfaction with the candidates. The discussion highlights the varied voting experiences and the anticipation for election results.
  • #31
Evo said:
So far this election is BORING. What's this about not announcing votes until AFTER the polls close? Some nonsense about affecting the votes?

OH COME ON!

This is boring Russ and I BLAME YOU! :wink:
It probably is my "fault", Evo -- that policy was created after I screamed to high heaven about how the media botched the 2000 election calls. Gore won! No, Bush won! No, it's too close to call!
In January 2003, the Voter News Service was disbanded largely because of failures in 2000 and 2002.
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The National Election Pool (NEP) is a consortium of American news organizations formed in 2003 to provide "information on Election Night about the vote count, election analysis and election projections." Member companies consist of ABC News, the Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and NBC News.
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NBC News will not project a winner in a state until after the last scheduled poll closing time in that state. If the race appears to be close in any given state, an abundance of caution will be used before calling a race in that state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_News_Service#Role_in_the_2000_presidential_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Election_Pool
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/how-nbc-news-projects-elections-winners-n509006

So you're welcome! :biggrin:
 
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  • #32
Evo said:
It's against the rules in GD also.
Really? What rule?
 
  • #33
Evo said:
So far this election is BORING. What's this about not announcing votes until AFTER the polls close?
If it helps you out any, USA Today has called Pennsylvania for Clinton with 0.75% of precincts reported.
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Actually, I may have misread that; they have it leaning Clinton.
 
  • #34
russ_watters said:
Really? What rule?

Effective immediately, in General Discussion, the topic of politics as a thread starter has been banned. Political points/discussion may be used within threads but a thread may not have a political origin.

Threads in Current News Events forum may have political origin, but within the framework of a specific news event. We no longer will entertain opinion pieces and open ended thoughts with no story attached. Here are the revised guidelines: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/must-read-current-events-guidelines.113181/

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https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/policy-change-for-current-news-events-and-gd-forums.865390/#post-5432133
 
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  • #35
If you're trump you're enjoying early results.
 
  • #36
Evo said:
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Not following. Are you thinking this is a thread about politics? It's not; It's a game-watch party for the worlds' largest audience participation game show.
 
  • #37
russ_watters said:
I do hope the full statistics on that get published (if there is a reporting mechanism)...
I would like to see the raw data.

I voted by mail. Before enclosing the ballot in a sealed envelop, I took pictures to record my vote. As far as I know, the county reports voting at the precinct level, so I should be able to see if my vote got counted. I wrote in McMullin as a protest vote, although I expect Clinton to win if enough Sanders folks decided to vote for Clinton. I wrote in an independent for Senator rather than the democratic incumbent, and I voted for the republican candidate for governor.

I'm not bothering to follow the election overnight, since that will not change the outcome. What will be, will be.
 
  • #38
russ_watters said:
Not following. Are you thinking this is a thread about politics? It's not; It's a game-watch party for the worlds' largest audience participation game show.
Election Day is certainly a current event, and widely covered in the media, besides being the biggest spectator sport today.

I heard reports that news organization in UK, Germany, France, and most of Europe are planning to following developments overnight. I suspect the world outside the US is holding its proverbial breath.
 
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  • #39
Astronuc said:
Election Day is certainly a current event, and widely covered in the media.
It is even widely covered over here in Swedish media. At the moment, Swedish television is broadcasting about the election all night.
 
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  • #40
Astronuc said:
I would like to see the raw data.

I voted by mail. Before enclosing the ballot in a sealed envelop, I took pictures to record my vote. As far as I know, the county reports voting at the precinct level, so I should be able to see if my vote got counted. I wrote in McMullin as a protest vote...
Is McMullin on the ballot in your state? I checked several major media outlets and none are reporting write-ins. That was my fear with my vote, which is why I was leaning Jonhson.
 
  • #41
Current electoral vote count:
Trump 168
Clinton 122

Futures and Oil Plunge as Trump Leads in Electoral College; Clinton Takes Virginia and Colorado
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/5bb84695-14b6-3524-b700-00093468d429/ss_futures-and-oil-plunge-as.html

Somebody reported the Dow futures down 730 with Trumps lead. There's probably some buying opportunities there.
 
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  • #42
Does anyone else think Shep Smith looks like a Terminator?
shepard_smith.jpg

Scary!
 
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  • #43
russ_watters said:
Is McMullin on the ballot in your state? I checked several major media outlets and none are reporting write-ins. That was my fear with my vote, which is why I was leaning Jonhson.
He was a write-in. Johnson and Stein were on the ballot, as were a number of other alternatives.

I considered Kasich, but McMullin is running as an independent.
 
  • #44
russ_watters said:
Not following. Are you thinking this is a thread about politics? It's not; It's a game-watch party for the worlds' largest audience participation game show.
LOL, I don't care, I'm allowing it. o0)
 
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  • #45
Student100 said:
If you're trump you're enjoying early results.

I'm not so sure that's true. You could be leading a state with 50% of the vote counted, and still lose it - it depends on which 50%. If you're Trump and squeaking ahead in Iowa, and all but Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Ames have been counted, that's not very good news. Right now, the only piece of solid good news for him would be Florida and Ohio.
 
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  • #46
kyphysics said:
How late do these polls run usually?
It probably varies among the states, but I seem to remember 8 pm (2000) is a common closing time. I don't know if that has changed over the years.
 
  • #47
Astronuc said:
Somebody reported the Dow futures down 730 with Trumps lead. There's probably some buying opportunities there.

Well, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

While I can see a general unhappiness with a Trump victory, I don't think it means people will buy less milk or gasoline. Exceptions would be industries that would expect better treatment under a President Clinton, such as the financial sector. But that shouldn't drag the whole market down.
 
  • #48
Vanadium 50 said:
I'm not so sure that's true. You could be leading a state with 50% of the vote counted, and still lose it - it depends on which 50%.
Pennsylvania is a good case study: look at the map and it's like 95% red except for a small handful of counties scattered throughout the state and a in the lower right corner that has half the state's population and is extremely heavily democratic.

So far though the election is looking a lot closer than predicted, which was eminently predictable.
 
  • #49
Google's map has Trump with 232 electoral votes vs Clinton with 209. Trump needs 38 to get to 270. If he wins Arizona (11), Michigan (16) and Wisconsin (10), he'd have 37, then he would need one more state. I wonder if some of the red-leaning states will flip back to leaning blue.

It seems the battleground or swing states are trending toward Trump.

Astronuc said:
Election Day is certainly a current event, and widely covered in the media, besides being the biggest spectator sport today.

I heard reports that news organization in UK, Germany, France, and most of Europe are planning to following developments overnight. I suspect the world outside the US is holding its proverbial breath.
So later tonight, or tomorrow morning, will it end with a Gasp! or Sigh?
 
  • #50
Astronuc said:
Google's map has Trump with 232 electoral votes vs Clinton with 209. Trump needs 38 to get to 270. If he wins Arizona (11), Michigan (16) and Wisconsin (10), he'd have 37, then he would need one more state. I wonder if some of the red-leaning states will flip back to leaning blue.

It seems the battleground or swing states are trending toward Trump.
I expected a swing toward Trump, but it is a lot more than anyone including me expected. Wow.
 
  • #51
AMERICA. WHAT. HAVE. YOU. DONE.
 
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  • #52
the right thing ?
 
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  • #53
Astronuc said:
Election Day is certainly a current event, and widely covered in the media, besides being the biggest spectator sport today.

I heard reports that news organization in UK, Germany, France, and most of Europe are planning to following developments overnight. I suspect the world outside the US is holding its proverbial breath.
So later tonight, or tomorrow morning, will it be a Gasp! or Sigh.
russ_watters said:
I expected a swing toward Trump, but it is a lot more than anyone including me expected. Wow.
There are still states, particularly in the middle and west that only have 60 to 70% of precincts reporting, so some states could swing either way. But certainly, the national polls indicating Clinton leading seem a bit off. A number of sites have been predicting a Trump win, and that seems quite possible. If so, that is certainly a rebuke of Clinton.

Also, the Senate races in Alaska and Louisiana are interesting. Alaska could go independent, and Louisiana has a large number of candidates, republican, democratic and independent, which looks more like a primary. The run-off election will be December 10.
 
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  • #54
The Senate race in my state of PA is currently differentiated by 6,000 votes out of 5.2 million...

...and CNN is showing Trump pulling ahead in PA. Amazing. I was certainly not expecting my state to actually swing. It hasn't gone Republican in a Presidential election in decades (1988). My facebook friends are going to be pissed at me...
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USA Today has switched PA from light blue to light red.
 
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  • #55
Astronuc said:
Senate races in Alaska and Louisiana are interesting.
... and, California? Have I seen correctly that a democrat is running against another democrat?
 
  • #56
Google now has Trump at 244, needing only 26 electoral votes to achieve 270. He can do that with Wisconsin and Michigan, which are trending his way!

Pennsylvania with 20 electoral votes is also leaning toward Trump.
 
  • #57
Very surprising to me (and other Swedes) over here...
 
  • #58
Bystander said:
... and, California? Have I seen correctly that a democrat is running against another democrat?
That is correct. Kamala Harris and Loretta Sanchez are both democrats.
 
  • #59
Astronuc said:
Kamala Harris and Loretta Sanchez are both democrats.
Okay. "Jungle rules" primaries work very weirdly.
 
  • #60
DaveC426913 said:
AMERICA. WHAT. HAVE. YOU. DONE.
Tomorrow I will be shopping for my survival shelter supplies for WW3. :frown: We elected a reality TV show host for President as if there was no difference. Why not?
 
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