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[–] Omgboom 78 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I went to bed Tuesday thinking I was going to wake up to much better news lol, I feel mislead

[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 days ago (2 children)

On Halloween I had a friend I thought was fairly Democratic say he was close to voting for Trump and that's when I felt the dread.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

My moms' voted for Trump I suspect and they're avoided voting for Republicans for a long time because of homophobia. One of them would ask things like "do you think a woman can be president" and would talk about how great she thought the stock market would do under trump. They just retired, so their well-being is now a lot more dependent on the value of their 401k than before though, so it might just be that rather than broader trends. Otoh, I've also seen her listening to like 30+ minute snakes salesman things on Facebook and be seriously believing of the obvious scam.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They're an insufferable asshole? I'd guess.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It was Halloween, so maybe "insufferable asshole" was their costume.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Guess which country gets to celebrate Halloween every day for the next 4 years!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Brave of you to assume it'll end after four years

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

That's the thing, he's not a bad guy, and he says he did vote for Harris. His politics are fairly left of center, and his wife is definitely way left of center.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He joked about the insane amount of spam texts he was getting, but no real answer. He did say he ended up voting Harris/Walz.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hopefully he was also joking about possibly voting for Trump.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Hopefully, but it didn't matter a ton in Texas, Trump was likely to win here anyway.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Reminds me of 2016. All the polls and guesses were Hillary had it in the bag. Woke up that morning feeling like someone sucker punched me.

I've been wary of predictions since then if for nothing else than to save me from developing a drinking problem to cope. Expect the worst and you'll never be surprised.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

I just assume the worst. Unfortunately this time I was right.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

We'll have to see what happens when the final numbers come in, but I suspect the polls had it more wrong this time than in 2016. They actually weren't that far off at that time. People forget that Hillary did actually win the popular vote, and the national polls were within margin of error. That might not be the case this time.