A West-Musk ticket is not what anyone was expecting in an election that has already delivered a cornucopia of the unexpected. West and his wife have visited Trump in the White House to discuss prison reform. At one bizarre meeting in 2018, West wore a red “Make America Great Again” cap...
"In this election, identity has played a large role in both parties, as there are large swaths of the electorate who see their vote not just as an expression of policy positions, but as saying something about who they are, like saying, 'I voted to protest corruption or I voted because ...
Taken together, thefindings suggest that the 1988 presidential campaign was largely responsible for activatingpatriotism's significant impact on that year's election, but patriotic attitudes have become asizable and stable predictor of Republican vote choice in post-9/11 national elections.Michael Tesler...
There are presidential elections in March 2019. The dilemma when wanting to be seen to be doing something, even if actually doing nothing (or very little) at all, is not only the perception when taking action, but also the perception of concluding it – particularly when the threat will not...
This day is observed by U.S. citizens voting for their public officials at the local, state, and federal levels through the popular ballot. Every four years, on even-numbered years, the U.S. presidential elections are held across the country. How people vote varies due to local laws. Onc...
For Black Americans, gaining the full rights of citizenship—and especially the right to vote—was central to securing true freedom and self-determination. “Slavery is not abolished until the Black man has the ballot,” Frederick Douglass famously said in May 1865, a month after the Union vict...
“joy”, or sane gun-control laws or a woman’s right to choose. But theonlyway to vote for any of these things is to cast a vote for American empire. That’s the bargain. We here atThe Hinternet, minus our Founding Editor, believe this is a bargain worth accepting, but that is ...
I’m back today to remind you about my favorite political datapoint and what it says about America. I bet it’s one you’re at least vaguely aware of. But I’d also bet it’s one you often forget about in the heat of a presidential election. My favorite political datapoint is this...
They even tried to steal the domain for the film through fraud at Go Daddy. The film was written by me and copyrighted before Obama or Kamala even entered Congress. The film script is about the first black President. It is also about the first female black President. The "Presidential ...
Hawaii wasn’t a determinative state in the 1960 presidential election between President John F. Kennedy and future President Richard Nixon. Kennedy was going to win the White House, regardless of Hawaii. There were allegations of vote fraud elsewhere, notably Illinois and Texas. Initial results fr...