2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumExit polls say Hillary won. What is the statistically probability that every poll, model AND exit
polls were wrong? I keep thinking about Russia and how they hacked Hillary and the DNC and I wonder if they would be able to hack our election.
http://tdmsresearch.com/2016/11/10/2016-presidential-election-table/
2016 Presidential Election Table
Posted on November 10, 2016 by Theodore de Macedo Soares 103 Comments ?
by Theodore de Macedo Soares
According to the exit polls conducted by Edison Research, Clinton won four key battleground states (NC, PA, WI, and FL) in the 2016 Presidential Election that she went on to lose in the computerized vote counts. With these states Clinton wins the Electoral College with a count of 302 versus 205 for Trump. Clinton also won the national exit poll by 3.2% and holds a narrow lead in the national vote count still in progress.
Exit polls were conducted in 28 states. In 23 states the discrepancies between the exit polls and the vote count favored Trump. In 13 of these states the discrepancies favoring Trump exceeded the margin of error of the state. See Table and its footnotes below.
A link to a petition to audit the election in 4 states is here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/810/285/388/
oldtime dfl_er
(6,930 posts)this was stolen, rigged, whatever. No doubt at all. The question is who is going to do something about it? I have no money, no resources, no expertise.
Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)show up. Maybe the DNC
lake loon
(99 posts)Between voter suppression, Russian involvement, alt right freakshows, etc., who knows what really happened. It all stinks to high heaven.
Maven
(10,533 posts)The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)They would lie about who they voted for just because they are shit.
It would be hard/imposdible to use any data that involved a trump person.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,110 posts)They never respond to my queries. They have real reason to demand this since they were hacked.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)byronius
(7,392 posts)It smelled like crap early on. The hack of DU was a major clue -- they were laughing in our face as they gently ripped our future from us.
What do you call a democracy where only half the population believes in democracy, and the other half would do anything to launch and support an authoritarian coup?
USA! USA!
No Smedley Butler to save us now. Just us.
Botany
(70,483 posts)And why? Because people here can spot something when it doesn't seem right.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Fixing the election is so many states at once required silencing this community.
I would include all the Republican talk about the "rigged" system and the trolling of the Dem primaries with a lot of rigging narrative as part of the overall plan. Even Trump's confidence indicated the plot. But, theyt were way too far behind to pull it off and had to bring on the Giulliani-Comey conspiracy to get within range of fixing the result.
as soon as the results were obvious, i knew why we were hacked.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)BlueProgressive
(229 posts)whether those votes are being counted, and THERE's the rub!
treestar
(82,383 posts)networks to call the election. So they were generally more accurate.
A lot of people are coming out to admit they voted for the orange weasel. But some may have had enough shame to tell an exit poller differently.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)Exit polls are anonymous, a form is filled out, and dropped into a box. That incentive to lie impression about exit polls is based on the misconception people are being grilled by a pollster like phone polls. They aren't.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Enough to make it inaccurate. Few people would be worried about looking bad for voting for a racist in that scenario.
Generator
(7,770 posts)He was in more shock than I. He never bought the Ohio outrage from Kerry times. But this this he couldn't believe. Stinky Putin FBI voter suppression and DU DOWN! Yes a clue.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)The Russians were in cahoots with the Trump, as proven by the Wikileaks hacks of the Clinton campaign.
So, sure, when, Trump wins contrary to nearly every poll and prediction, the obvious answer is a rigged election.
The real tip-off was Trump accusing others of rigging the election. His M-O the whole way through was to accuse Clinton of doing the very things he was doing -- whether it was of being crooked or lying, etc. He claims a rigged election long before the vote? He was the one rigging it.
d_r
(6,907 posts)mattclearing
(10,091 posts)He was constantly accusing the Clinton campaign of what he was doing, to the point of absurdity.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)Even SNL mocked him for accusing Hillary of things he was guilty of doing, such as having an orange face "except around the eyes."
rainy
(6,089 posts)JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)barbtries
(28,787 posts)my brother immediately said "they stole it." I need evidence before I can say that, but this is getting me closer to believing it.
I'm in NC and the republicans here are total scorched earthers. And I thought we were going blue! (such a shock, still recovering)
I haven't been able to look at news the past week. I subscribe to David Pakman and TYT and have only dipped my toes in briefly since the election. But this video discusses the very real possibility that the election was stolen.
I am of the belief that gw never won a presidential election, and he didn't need no russians, he had karl rove and a republican machine that covers the levers of power all the way to the supreme court. what's karl rove been up to lately? what about the FBI and their last minute dirty tricks?
I want more evidence, but have little doubt that it will emerge. i'm just not ready to say it categorically. I do know a lot of people personally who voted for drumpf. my heart is broken. i fear for our democracy more than ever in my life. i think we are really, really screwed. one of my own sons texted me to stop putting negative stuff on fb. i think he's symptomatic of a whole, whole lot of people: if we ignore it and just go about our business, it'll just all work out. I find that kind of apathy chilling and terribly dangerous.
anyhow. dark days. very dark days.
Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)High level tampering.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)but extreme and extraordinary. It will require extraordinary proof to be taken seriously.
Sorceress
(309 posts)However, all I can say is something doesn't seem quite right about how this went down. Sure, the Repub claims that people didn't want to admit they were voting Trump could be true; sure, it could be that Trump was able to up the rural turnout, but something just isn't quite right.
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)all the talk of rigging was an inside joke imo.
kydo
(2,679 posts)Will any investigative organizations with the power to do anything about it do anything? Of course not. Don't be silly. This is fascist Amerkkkia now, they make their one rules. One set for white supremacist and another set for everyone else.
Now if Clinton had the Russian connection like cheeto does, she would be in jail. Of course she didn't and he did and now he is in the white house, and so are the russians, with the FBI just holding the door for them. What a lovely country we live in. Criminals are rewarded with positions of power honest people are locked up.
that creature is Not My President! He lost.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Republicans don't need people on the other side of the world to steal elections for them!
kydo
(2,679 posts)But I bet they helped anyway.
They also helped agent orange by paying trolls on the internet. Not just message board trolls, but facebook trolls, twitter trolls and most importantly news trolls, like info-wars, braibreit, alt-right sites, rt, all that crap.
And don't even get me started on the supposedly news media outlets. They normalized this crap. The Russian involvement in cheetos campaign should have been the lead story on everything. It should have been mentioned more then Clinton's emails. Instead we heard crickets.
The Russian involvement on any level should be reason enough to disqualify him and his whole party from this election.
This whole thing is a travesty!
Botany
(70,483 posts)Before a single vote was cast, the election was fixed by GOP and Trump operatives.
Starting in 2013 just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act a coterie of Trump operatives, under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color from the voter rolls of GOPcontrolled states.
The system, called Crosscheck, is detailed in my Rolling Stone report,
The GOPs Stealth War on Voters <http://www.gregpalast.com/rolling-stone-expose-gops-secret-plan-steal-vote/>, 8/24/2016.
Crosscheck in action:
Trump victory margin in Michigan: 13,107
Michigan Crosscheck purge list: 449,922
Trump victory margin in Arizona: 85,257
Arizona Crosscheck purge list: 270,824
Trump victory margin in North Carolina: 177,008
North Carolina Crosscheck purge list: 589,393
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)Botany
(70,483 posts).... important pass this story on to your family and friends. The media will not touch
this story unless it gets hot.
You can contact the DNC too but they are useless.
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)you know that nobody picked up the phone!!!!!
Botany
(70,483 posts).... demand that something must be done and that future of America
is at stake. Give them the chart on the exit polls and the story about
"crosscheck."
Baitball Blogger
(46,698 posts)And then they wrap themselves in the flag and round up their tribe with cries of War on Christmas.
So, with all the rich Democrats we have in this country, combined with bright young Millennials, why doesn't someone come up with an incubator of white hats to go out and track how the Republicans are stealing these elections?
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)You need cold hard smoking gun evidence, and because its potentially 5 plus states with 5 plus different voting structures, sorting it out to the point of even getting preliminary actions started to simply do a basic audit will be a task of herculean proportions. If the Clinton campaign makes noises officially about this, then I think we might get moving on it, but until and if they do we are all basically stuck.
The Russian private hackers worked hand in hand with the global black hat community and neo nazi techies to do massive disruptions on so many levels, but you will never be able to show direct linkage and control of them by the Kremlin and Putin. Putin is far far too smart for that. He is not going to put a nuclear exchange on the table over an election that no matter what the result was, he can play it to his advantage.
Lastly, if people push a false narrative that the Russian government actually "hacked" directly into the US voting system you will get tossed quickly into the tin foil hat pool and severely damage all credibility and hope to even try and show that internal US deep state power structures possibly did actually tamper with real cast votes.
Even if they (the American RW) did do it, these are people with billions of dollars to hire the best hackers in the world and they more than likely used backdoors that leave zero electronic forensic traces.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)There are others out there that may have screenshots etc of stuff. Can we convince anyone of doing audits? What about MI that had 80,000 ballots without casting a vote for president?
cilla4progress
(24,725 posts)Are there people working on this?
OhZone
(3,212 posts)but, anecdotally, I do notice one clue that there may have been a lot of people ashamed to admit they were voting for Trump.
Immediately after the election, I'm seeing a lot more Trump stickers on cars than before. I have a long commute, and they have suddenly multiplied a lot. That means they had them in their possession but were embarrassed to put them on their cars before his "win.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)be more believable.
flamingdem
(39,312 posts)thank god