— we are currently living in the most competitive era of presidential politics. The 2016 contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was the eighth consecutive presidential race in which the national popular vote margin was smaller than 10 percentage points. That is, in every presidential elec...
That he won that election was partly the consequence of the leadership of the Democratic party having crowned as its presidential candidate one of the most unpopular and partisan figures in American politics- Hillary Clinton. But above all his victory came after a series of devastating failures ...
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For much of the past two decades, Pennsylvania’s electoral votes have gone to Democratic candidates. But Donald Trump edged out Hillary Clinton in 2016, and the state is shaping up to be a close contest again in 2020.Tags: 2020 presidential election, elections, Pennsylvania...
There is one system that can have the effect of delaying results – which is run-off balloting. Some countries use that for Presidential elections. The process is flawed, given to under the table deals, and costs time and big money. No one I have heard speaking intelligently about election...
True, but I’m just young enough by four days to not be able to vote in the 1984 presidential election much less the 1980 one. And even then, he didn’t drive them as deranged as Nixon did. Leftists gave up UBI and probably universal government health to get rid of Tricky Dicky. ...