One angle not being played up though. Most last-day polls have Gary Johnson at 5-6%, now he's polling at 3%. Could a significant number of voters who claimed they'd vote for Johnson in polling have secretly been planning to Trump all along, or if nothing else, had a last-minute change of heart? Obviously, it doesn't account for the entire result, but 2% extra for Trump that no one accounted for could have made the difference between a win and a loss.
If you're a Clinton supporter, or just against Trump the best you can possibly hope for is 269-269, but I think there's maybe a 1% chance of that occurring. For better or worse we've just elected Donald Trump as President, and it's going to be a wild 4 years.
Zodiac Killer. Not Zodiac with Robert Downey Jr, Jake Gyllenhaal, etc that was pretty good and the movie we meant to watch when we accidentally ordered an awful pay-per-view of movie told from the Killer's perspective. I even found a clip
@PSP107: 25 was the rating, I was counting millions viewers and according to reports I've seen it sounds like last night's was likely close to 40M which is the highest in 25 years (somewhat surprisingly, Braves-Twins was more watched than 04 Sox-Cardinals, 01 Yankees-Diamondbacks, etc). No way I see game drawing those numbers in the foreseeable future, but that doesn't mean this series was bad for baseball in anyway.
@PSP107: I don't think it's bad for baseball but this game will inevitably be the most watched in more than a decade (Red Sox 2004 clincher drew 28M, this will probably even surpass that) and I couldn't imagine any scenario next year where anything 7 (even game 7 of Yankees-Dodgers) would touch that
Graduating with my Bachelor's in May 2017 and almost certainly going to my school's the MACC (Masters of Accountancy) program fall of next year with the aim of entering public accounting. Overall it's been a good experience, I can't say I've had the typical 'college social' experiences of partying, binge drinking, fraternities, but frankly I didn't enter college all that interested in those aspects and am glad that I have been able to have made some lasting friends. Obviously, it's an expensive investment (current student loan balance: $25K) but it's already begun to pay off in some respects through paid internships, and with my combination of major and grades I'm fairly confident that in the long run, I'll come out well ahead. I've done well in my classes and frankly found them far easier than I used to dread in high school. That being said they've been largely nondescript, I'll remember the names and moments of course, but I'm not sure I can pinpoint any specifically that have directly shaped or changed my life's trajectory or worldview. As a person, I feel like while my overall personality is largely the same that it's been in that I'm quiet and am largely interested in many of the same things and have similar hobbies (sports, politics, gaming) but I have obviously become a far more self-sufficient person and feel more confident in my ability to perform well in different situations (which I had very little of entering college).
If I were a Cowboys fan I"d want Dak Prescott to keep starting after the bye, and probably for the rest of the year unless he plays himself out of it. Romo's contract extension was a mistake, but truthfully it's a sunk cost. And while I do think Romo probably be 5-1 as well, he's too injury-prone for me to feel confident about his chances of making it through the rest of the year. Besides, if the Cowboys want to know if Dak is the team's long-term future at QB, making him the starter now will allow him to answer those questions and plan for the future more quickly.
@Chutebox: It's hard to know for sure, but he's done far better than I think most expected. If the Skins are bad this year they're obviously not going to give up a top-10 pick for him based on 5 quarters, but I wouldn't be shocked if a bad team without a promising QB (Bears, Browns, 9ers, also into this category) offered up a couple of second rounders, or a package with similar value. That being said I think how Brady looks this season could play heavily into what they do with Garoppolo. If he starts showing signs of aging they'll probably hold onto Jimmy, but if he looks great and like a player who will be unquestioned starter through 2017, they'll probably get what they can for him.
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