Live: US Election Thread

Following on from the long discussion thread we had about this last night/this morning I was thinking why not put up this for the night owls who will be on here tonight and may be keeping an eye on things across the pond


NOTE: I KNOW THIS IS NOT FOOTBALL RELATED AND SOME PEOPLE AREN'T INTERESTED IN THIS, IN THAT CASE PLEASE MOVE ON AND DONT COME ON HERE COMPLAINING ABOUT IT, THANK YOU

Its US Election night
In the blue corner, from Chicago Illinois, representing the Democrats, President Obama

And in the red corner, from Belmont, Massachusetts, representing the Republicans, Mitt Romney

Plus some more candidates no one cares about

HOW THIS WORKS
Presidential elections are run using an electoral college. Each state is given a number of votes based on its population. This means some states are worth much more than others.

For example, California (population 37.7 million) has 55 votes, while a more rural state like Montana (population one million) has only three votes. The presidential candidate who wins in a state wins all that state's college votes.*(Except Nabraska and Maine but lets not get too technical)

There are 51 "states" for the purpose of this election as Washington DC counts as a "State" and gets to give 3 votes.

You need 270 votes to become president.



CURRENT SCORE
39/51 both sides have already been accepted by both parties as been decided. 23 in favour of Romney and 16 in favour of Obama simply due to the fact these states are Republican and Democrat strongholds respectively.

That leaves the current score at Obama 196 and Romney 191 respectively, both well short of the 270 required to be declared the next President of the United States.

THE BATTLEGROUND STATES
Therefore the remaining 12 states will decide tonights vote, they are as follows (number of votes the state carries)
Colorado (9)
Florida (29)
Iowa (6)
Michigan (16)
Nevada (6)
New Hampshire (4)
New Mexico (5)
North Carolina (15)
Ohio (18)
Pennsylvania (20)
Virginia (13)
Wisconsin (10)


INFORMATION ON STATE BY STATE BREAKDOWN
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17306282#Battleground states


PREDICT THE WINNER
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19794259


But before we begin its now time for the match thread rules
1) There are no rules ✔
2) Lots of comments ✔
3) Fake scorelines ✔
4) Be fickle ✔
5) Smiley spamming ✔
6) No Ramsey V Cleverley debate ✔
7) No Suarez/Terry racism comments ✔




LIVE THREAD!
http://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewLiveArticle/165261

Divas Predo!
Obama 303-206 Romney (with Florida still being unable to count)



DIVAS BOOKINGS FOR WUMS



Divas Stat of the Day
There has never been a US Election Night Thread on JA606, history in the making here




EVERYONE GO TO THE RED DEVILS TAVERN
http://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewLiveArticle/106650