Red Five

AFAIK, no real results start to come out until polls close in various states. But 538 has a running blog throughout the day that might be interesting -> http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2016-election-results-coverage/?ex_cid=extra_banner

Those 2 are not related at all. Hurd has to sit out 17 and would only be eligible in 18.

Since the election is today. does this mean that tomorrow I have to go back to the football forum and deal with that crap?

Who ya got?

Notice that neither Tom or Bill has actually said they support him ... Trump is saying he heard that they do (or that they called him or something). Here are my thoughts: If they really do support him, knowing how he's lagging behind don't you think they'd do so publicly? If Bill really wrote him a letter do you really think "Mr. Control Freak Bilichick" would say, Hey, just reword it (and it's totally in Trump prose btw). Let me answer for you - no. Bill doesn't give anybody free reign to do anything in his or his team's name. Belichick's letter: Congratulations on a tremendous campaign. You have to help with an unbelievable slanted and negative media and have come out beautifully. You have proven to be the ultimate competitor fighter. Your leadership is amazing. I have always had tremendous respect for you for the toughness and perseverance you have displayed over the past year is remarkable. Hopefully tomorrow’s election, the results will give the opportunity to make America great again. Best wishes for great results tomorrow, Bill Belichick Color me skeptical that he actually wrote it. As for Brady, he said Monday morning that he hadn't voted for anyone yet and early voting ended in Massachusetts on Friday. Also Gisele answered an emphatic "NO!" when asked if she or Tom were backing Trump.

State odds. The larger the negative, the bigger the favorite. Clinton favored in NV, FL, and (narrowly) NC.

HARBAUGH!!!!

Nine 538 A rated polls taken between 10/31 and 11/6 C+4, C+4, C+4, C+4, C+4, C+3, T+2, C+6, C+1

Donald Trump's cabinet-in-waiting is taking shape in the final days of the race, as aides eye a number of Trump loyalists for major posts should he win on Tuesday. Among the names being considered, according to conversations with three campaign advisers who requested anonymity to speak freely: Rudy Giuliani for attorney general, Newt Gingrich for secretary of state, retired Lt. Gen Michael Flynn for defense secretary or national security adviser, Trump finance chairman Steve Mnuchin for Treasury secretary, and Republican National Committee finance chair Lew Eisenberg for commerce secretary. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/gingrich-giuliani-priebus-eyed-top-jobs-trump-white-house-sources-n678881

I got ya to 4*s

I learned (or more aptly confirmed) that it is best for my mental health to stay off the football forum for at least 24 hours after a loss. We played like sh#t and got our asses kicked. It sucks. Defense, offense, coaching, all were terrible. There are no excuses for a loss like that. Move on to next week and don't let Ohio St beat us twice.

The last week has been much ado about nothing

Also in The NY Times story dude links above:

Not election fraud per se, but...

Trump affair. Least surprising news ever.

Not McShane, but our social media staff is top notch

Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, and New Hampshire hold on. Trump gets a Maine district.

No one has metioned it yet, but we need Lightbourn and the punt team to come up big and flip the field a couple times

But they are not "dealing with the consequences" IMO. This article (partisan as it is) lays out that ranking GOPers are also going crazy as well: Republicans continue to cheer the fact that the electronic systems of American political groups were illegally hacked, and then private communications were selectively released in order to do damage to one side in this election. The Republican nominee has explicitly asked a hostile foreign power to hack into his opponent’s electronic systems. High-ranking Republican officeholders are now suggesting that they may impeach Clinton as soon as she takes office. These are not just backbench nutbars of the Louie Gohmert variety, but people with genuine power, including Ron Johnson, the senator from Wisconsin, Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and veteran legislators like James Sensenbrenner and Peter King. The message is being echoed by top Trump surrogates like Rudy Giuliani. There is a growing movement among Republicans in the Senate to simply refuse to approve any nominee appointed by a Democratic president to the Supreme Court, leaving open any and all vacancies until a Republican can be elected to fill them. State and local Republican officials are engaged in widespread and systematic efforts to suppress the votes of African-Americans and other groups likely to vote disproportionately Democratic; in many cases officials have been ordered by courts to stop their suppression efforts and they have simply ignored the court orders. Republican elected officials increasingly feel emboldened to openly suggest violence against Clinton should she be elected.

Meet Donald Trump's Top FBI Fanboy Couple things in here: Two days before FBI director James Comey rocked the world last week, Rudy Giuliani was on Fox, where he volunteered, un-prodded by any question: “I think he’s [Donald Trump] got a surprise or two that you’re going to hear about in the next few days. I mean, I’m talking about some pretty big surprises.” Pressed for specifics, he said: “We’ve got a couple of things up our sleeve that should turn this thing around.” And Kallstrom, whose exchanges with active agents about particular cases are as contrary to FBI policy as Giuliani’s, formally and passionately endorsed Trump this week on Stuart Varney’s Fox Business show, adding that Clinton is a “pathological liar.” Kallstrom, who served as a Marine before becoming an agent, didn’t mention that a charity he’d founded decades ago and that’s now called the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, was the single biggest beneficiary of Trump’s promise to raise millions for veterans when he boycotted the Iowa primary debate. A foundation official said that Trump’s million-dollar donation this May, atop $100,000 that he’d given in March, were the biggest individual grants it had ever received. The Trump Foundation had contributed another $230,000 in prior years and Trump won the organization’s top honor at its annual Waldorf Astoria gala in 2015.