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Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)
1. Every poll (sane or not) has given the nod to HRC in MI since August.
Tue Nov 8, 2016, 12:39 PM
Nov 2016

Her current aggregate poll number is +5.3. Trump is praying for vanishingly small turnout.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
4. Michigan is solid. If Trump really had a shot there he would have been spending money there weeks
Tue Nov 8, 2016, 12:46 PM
Nov 2016

ago

Someone from the UAW (I think) posted some internal data on Twitter showing Clinton winning undecided who were not likely to vote for her, so in good shape

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
5. There was no line at my voting precinct, but my precinct is pretty solid red
Tue Nov 8, 2016, 12:48 PM
Nov 2016

And my friends who live in a blue area had to wait. That could be because of voter suppression tactics (GOP makes it easier to vote in red areas) or it could be because Republicans aren't turning out as much.

Johnny2X2X

(24,435 posts)
11. Long lines in downtown GR, West MI this morning
Tue Nov 8, 2016, 01:14 PM
Nov 2016

Downtown is reliably Dem and I have voted at the same place for 25 years, by far the longest lines I have seen and my district is 65% white, I saw way less than 65% white people in line and very few men.

At work hearing the same thing from other precincts, long lines near downtown. Things are running very smoothly though.

 

BlueProgressive

(229 posts)
19. There was a long line at my Lansing precinct before noon today,
Tue Nov 8, 2016, 01:51 PM
Nov 2016

but no line at the three other precincts voting in the same location... so I dunno. My precinct was closest to the actual voting location. It is predominately white. I guess it is a larger precinct than the others, as the layout suggested a much larger turnout was expected for it than for the others-- they arranged a long space for a line at this precinct only.

Luckily it was no real long wait, about twenty minutes to get to the table, but it was much longer than in 2012 when there were only a few people in front of me. I've never seen that many people lined up to vote except in 2008, when it took an hour to get through the line (at a different location with a larger AA population).

None of the polls have suggested that Trump has any chance of breaking through here.



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