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Edit 12:11 PM 11/6 Pacific
Kentucky (8), Indiana (11), West Virginia (4), Florida (30), South Carolina (9), Tennessee (11), Alabama (9), Mississippi (6), Oklahoma (7), Arkansas (6), North Dakota (3), South Dakota (3), Nebraska (4*), Wyoming (3), Louisiana (8), Texas (40), Ohio (17), Missouri (10), Montana (4), Utah (6), Idaho (4), Iowa (6), Kansas (6), North Carolina (BG-16), Georgia (BG-16), Pennsylvanya (BG-19), Wisconsin (10), Michigan (15), Maine (1*), Alaska (3), Arizona (11) and Nevada (6) called for Trump.

Vermont (3), Connecticut (7), District of Columbia (3), Maryland (10), Massachusetts (11), Rhode Island (4), Delaware (3), Illinois (19), New Jersey (14), New York (28), Colorado (10), California (54), Washington (12), Oregon (8), Virginia (13), Hawaii (4), New Mexico (5), New Hampshire (4), Minnesota (10), Nebraska (1*), Maine (3*) for Harris.

2 counties in PA have extended voting hours due to voting machine problems. 9:30 PM in one, 10:00 PM in the other.

Multiple precincts in Georgia have extended hours due to bomb threats.

Edit 03:09 PM Pacific Harris wins Guam.

https://www.guampdn.com/news/guam-picks-harris-over-trump-in-non-binding-presidential-straw-poll/article_657b06b8-9b97-11ef-9896-1302c4e2ebe9.html

This thread is for the Presidential election, my plan is to start marking wins as soon as they are called, sorted by time zone.

Some states are going to take longer than others. Polls generally close at 8 PM local time, but they can't start counting early/mail in votes until after the polls close.

Wisconsin in particular has an interesting system where ballots are collected by MUNICIPALITY, not precinct, they have over 1,800 ballot counting locations and don't report until ALL 1,800 are in.

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/10/22/wisconsin-voters-election-milwaukee-security-denier

Currently 226 EC votes from Blue States:

4+19+10+7+3+3+4+10+11 +4+14+28+4+3+13+54+12 +10+5+8+6

NC called for Trump. -16 here, +16 to Trump.

GA called for Trump. -16 here, +16 to Trump.

PA called for Trump. -19 here, +19 to Trump.

AZ and NV both called for Trump, +11, +6

Which leaves 312 EC votes in Red States.

9+6+6+6+8+6+10+5+3+7 +3+40+30+11+8+17+9+11+4+3+4+4+3+16+16+19+11+6

270 to Win.

Online map here!

https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I have young kids.. My wife always asks me if bringing them into this world was a mistake. I was always the optimist telling her I didn't think it so. Now I don't know what to feel. What are they going to do... Ugh. This is a waking nightmare. I'm scared.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I have a one year old. I'm terrified at how things are going to look in 4 years.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I have five between 20 and 33. I weep for them. All of us.

The choice was a future for them or a now for the elite. The Me Last ~~generation~~ people seem~~s~~ to have won - and even if not, showed that we are lost anyway without a paradigm shift.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

10, 3 and 1 here...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I decided many years ago not to have kids precisely for this reason.

The best you can do now is to raise them to be better than this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My kid grew up in the first Trump bullet that we managed to barely dodge.

We planned at that time start to look at colleges outside of the US and my kids is actually interested now.

Guess my family might end up being another first generation immigrant yet again but that won't be a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sorry to say, friend, that climate change itself made it a mistake. This is just icing on the cake.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This next 2 years was my last chance to have kids. I kept waiting. I don't think I can do this anymore. I wanted to be a good parent but what kind of parent knowledge brings a child into this? I feel so lost.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you afford to adopt? There are plenty of kids who are already here, might as well take them in and improve their lives if you can.

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

Thr thought has crossed my mind. My partner hates children and just wants a quiet peaceful life just the 2 of us. Took decade to convince that this isn't a terrible idea and now I can no longer fight against it. It's over. Even if Trump doesn't do anything crazy, I know he won't make things better and we are out of time to wait for a better outcome. Nature is uncaring.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Raise your kids to be loving, respectful people, that's the only chance we have for a better future. If we leave the future generations to be raised by people full of hate we're doomed.