The Lions, surprisingly enough, are 6-4 at the top of the NFC North (as they currently have the tie-breaker over the Vikings). This is unusual, to say the least.

About 47% of the people who voted for President, voted for Trump. About 48% voted for Clinton and the rest (~5%) voted for someone else. That means that 53% of the people who voted (and those are the only people who we can count here) didn’t vote for Trump. That sounds like a majority to me.

After seeing what happened to this team, how do large projects like this still manage to underestimate how much money they’ll need? Take everyone’s salaries, multiply by the number of years you expect to be working on the project, add material costs, and miscellaneous costs for your specific project (building,…

That’s still insane to me. How much control over city services (transit, trash pickup, etc...) does the city government have? Could a well-timed city services strike convince Congress to consider that statehood petition that you guys voted for on Election Day?

I live a few minutes outside of Flint, MI. Even those of us who were born there don’t really want to live there right now between the water situation and the falling but still high crime rate so, housing is very cheap. I could buy a place for about 1 to 2 years rent where I am now but, it would be in one of the more…

The decisions of people who voted for others, or who didn’t vote, may have helped put Trump into office but, they didn’t actually vote for “a man who brags about sexually assaulting women.” That number is still around 60 million of the 320 million total American population...which is way over 1/12th what is Jeb! and…

I’d be willing to vote for a candidate who was actually left of center economically and who was significantly less authoritarian than either Clinton or Trump. That’s why I voted for Sanders in the primary after all. I tend to identify as a left-liberal (I’m a bit to the left of Sanders economically, and quite a bit…

He could try to go the Constitutional Convention called by 3/4ths of the states route rather than dealing with Congress though.

Trump is not better than Clinton. They’re not even equally bad. In fact, Trump is worse by far. It is possible that we may finally be able to convince people that the Electoral College and possibly even the First-Past-The-Post voting system itself needs to go now that, for the second time since 2000, a candidate has…

I live in Michigan. We literally have the most expensive auto insurance in the nation. My 54-year-old mother who has never been in an at-fault accident can’t get minimum coverage insurance for $60/month. There’s no chance for 31-year-old male me to do the same. Last I checked I was looking at no less than $140/month…

She’s losing Michigan by less than 12,000 out of over 4.5 million votes right now (not all votes have been counted and especially Wayne County/Detroit isn’t done counting yet). That’s well under 1% and she may even win this state (for what it’s worth). That still doesn’t change your point at all.

The recreational referendum wasn’t on the ballot in Michigan due to an issue concerning signature validity (the state passed a law after MI Legalize started collecting signatures that made any signatures over 180 days old void). That killed the referendum for this year. They plan to try again in 2018.

He’ll definitely kill the TPP, that’s a silver lining. Although that doesn’t really do much to counterbalance all the things you just named.

She won the popular vote! What more do you want? Also, my state (Michigan) hasn’t even finished counting yet. Wayne county counts slowly.

That’s certainly true, I don’t think I’ll still have a cable subscription when GoT airs next year so, I’m looking into which is better, adding HBO to Playstation Vue or getting HBO Go as a standalone.

He’s borrowing them from a local lending library. Free is less expensive than $10-$15.

No. It depends on the state but generally, polling places are chosen by the municipality in which they exist. Our Federal government doesn’t have as much control over the electoral process as in many other countries. Originally that was because it simply wasn’t possible for it to control that many polling places that…

It’s not the first Tuesday of the first full week of November, Election Day can be November 2nd after all, it’s the first Tuesday following the first Monday of November. Why can’t Election Day be November first? I don’t know. That’s just the way it is.

You don’t have to move Election Day to a Monday or a Friday to make it a holiday. Move it to a Saturday and you annoy the smallest number of people. Even the people who were out partying Friday night will be up-and-out sometime before 8 PM on Saturday. Holding our elections on Tuesday is a holdover from when the…

It was the top ‘Not Top 10' play for the maximum length of time (about a year). They had to retire it in order to get something else in.