Many saw the election of Barack Obama as a referendum on small government. Obama was right in saying that people of America wanted clarity, optimism, and substance. Voting for Obama, then, was an exercise in risk aversion. Democratic strategy was smart. By pandering to the middle, they ...
and by doing what he attacked ("too many times, after the election is over, and the confetti is swept away, all those promises fade from memory, and the lobbyists and the special interests move in"), Obama will leave the presidency, whether in 2013 or 2017, with Washington...
But calling his win a landslide, as so many Trump allies do, is laughably false. Trump received slightly more than 77.3 million popular votes — just 1.5 percentage points more than Harris. It is one of the more anemic victories in a half-century and weak even in these hyper-partisan tim...
“It was just strange for me going back there and realizing that actually there were probably as many Trump supporters in the people that I talk to in San Francisco than in Bentonville, Arkansas—maybe more,” he says. Libin says “it was always uncommon” to find anyone who...
Wisconsin has been a bluish state in presidential elections. It voted twice for Barack Obama (by 14 percent in 2008 and by 6 percent in 2012). However, in 2010 it elected Republicans governor, U.S. senator, and a majority of the state assembly. Democrats hold an edge in party ID, so...
In the run-up to Monday night's Republican presidential caucuses, more than 20 candidate eventswere canceled, postponed or moved virtually. The hopefuls themselves acknowledged that the freeze could affect how many folks turn out to vote in the first nominating contest of the 2024 race. ...
Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat-turned-Trump-fan who served prison time for trying to sell the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama when he won the presidency back in 2008. Worst of all, Trump’s Justice Department has asked a judge to drop the charges against Adams. Emil Bove III, Trump’s...
President Barack Obama and current President Donald Trump. The Hindu nationalist BJP itself claims to have more members than any other political party in the world. Polls for the world's biggest democratic vote open on a rolling basis between April 11 and May 19. Modi is w...
Already, for over a month, Obama’s analysts had been counting ballots from states that allowed citizens to vote early. Each day, the campaign overlaid the lists of early voters released by election authorities with its modeling scores to project how many votes they could claim as their own....
But they will spread lies on social media, and there are activists who have been recruited over the course of the past four years in hundreds of counties all over the country, many of them deeply red counties, who are ready to interfere with the process, to protest at vote-counting center...