Posted on 11/21/2016 6:20:35 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
The New York Times’s election night coverage was a wide-ranging affair: live forecasts, an interactive map with real-time updates, an online chat between a handful of political reporters — not to mention more traditional reporting.
But the drama of election night was also conveyed, in retrospect, by the changing headlines that topped The Times’s home page: 13 of them, in all.
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I felt the same sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach as I had in 08 and 12, so I didn't watch any of it. I went to bed around 9.30pm and was listless throughout the night. Checked Drudge when I woke up and I thought, "joy comes in the morning"!
Check out this loser from Clinton's crowd in New York City that night. He looks like he could be related to Paul Ryan!
I was a bit disappointed. I felt the Trump momentum and I thought he was going to win big...
I thought he was going to take MN, NH, CO, NM and possibly VA.
I guess he has to save a few for 2020.
Bill is jumping for joy at the thought of not going to jail for numerous acts of treason.
A night to remember!!!!!!!!!
Newsweek already had shipped their “Hillary wins” collector’s issue.
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I think I even posted this iconic image on the live election night thread here on FR:
A piece that captured my feelings late that night, as I realized he wasn’t going to win by a mere squeaker like times before, but brilliantly....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LEoNQPQXsY
Well, I certainly won’t forget that evening for a long time. I had travelled to Phoenix to speak at a conference on Nov. 7 and 8 and was supposed to attend a dinner that evening. My plans were to head over to the Republican HQ at about 9 pm to join in the festivities (and yes I was that confident). However, on the Friday before leaving for Phoenix, I had a customer west of Albuquerque call me up to ask if I could please be at their plant early on Wednesday Nov. 9 to check out some equipment that was coming down for a short notice plant outage. So....the plan became to duck out of the dinner early, rent a car with satellite radio and listen to the coverage on the way. I never saw any of the tv coverage at all.... but of course knew who all the people were who were providing the coverage. I mostly stayed on Fox Business and Fox but would do the occasional scroll through CNN and MSNBC just to hear the steadily increasing sound of dread in their voices. My brother-in-law kept me company on the way with a constant flow of messages mostly along the lines of “Damn, I can’t believe that this is going so well.” At one point, I think it was Chris Wallace who said “well, we’ve been talking all evening about Donald Trump’s path to success.... but I think it’s time to start wondering what possible path there is for Hillary Clinton to reach 270. The doors appear to be closing up.” It was at that moment I texted my BIL, “it’s a done deal”! I checked into my hotel room in New Mexico about 5 minutes before Trump made his speech..... then slept very happily for 4 hours and was on the jobsite at about 7:30 am. Didn’t get near enough sleep but what a glorious couple of days.
I lost it on seeing Hillary’s lead in FL on CNN about 7:00 PM. Was convinced it was gonna be a repeat of 2012 when I saw how it was going and I had to flip channels to regain my composure.
I switched back to CNN after awhile and when Trump won OH, I felt things were back on track.
Rest of the night was as exciting and dramatic as heck.
Vigo County - IN’s national bellwether was distorted. Trump was winning by the indicated blowout margins in Red States but it didn’t show swing states would be so close.
No one anticipated that development. In the end though, Trump won. That’s all that really matters.
Niiiiice....
Trump actually led in VA most of the night but NOVA delivered a boatload of votes for Hillary.
The days when a Republican candidate could carry it in a cakewalk are gone.
YES! The NYT live dashboard? That was so accurate. They need to run that every year. I think it’s new this year, correct?
Beta male
I liked the little dials they had on the bottom of the screen. There were three of them, predicting in real time the popular vote, the odds of who will win, and the electoral votes. They were updating every few seconds, which meant that they were watching a raw feed of district by district, state by state returns, plus calculations based upon historical data for each district and how the real returns matched historical data. It was impressive.
bttt
Ping.
My only complaint: it wasn’t an upset.
The interesting thing was that if you combined the “called” States of all of the various outlets reporting on the results, it was clear by 10:00 PM that Hillary needed to run the tables with the remaining battleground States and she had to flip either Arizona or Alaska. By 11:00 PM, it was clear to me that Trump had won. By midnight, there was no doubt and it was just sheer denial on the part of the media that they wouldn’t call it. Even Fox was guilty.
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