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Feb 03 2021
Analysis
Trump Destroyed Himself
Two reports by his own pollsters show why he should have won but didn’t.
Donald Trump might be in denial about who won the 2020 election, but his pollsters aren’t. Two of them have performed autopsies on his defeat, and those autopsies are now public. One of his pollsters, John McLaughlin, published an analysis in Newsmax in November. Another report, written by consultant Tony Fabrizio
SlateAug 30 2015
News
Joe Biden Faces Tough Road to White House, Starting With Iowa
As Vice President Joe Biden weighs a presidential bid, he must confront a number of fundamental questions. Among them: Does he have a viable path through an electoral map that is becoming only more treacherous the longer he stays on the sidelines?
Polling shows that Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton’s candidacy has been weakened by a lingering controversy over her email practices
Wall Street Journal (News)May 07 2015
News
Britain votes in a neck-and-neck contest to determine who will govern
Britain’s most fiercely fought election in decades moved into the hands of voters Thursday with the two main parties neck-and-neck in a contest that will likely produce frantic political scrambling to form a government.
Although the counting of the votes is expected to be wrapped up within hours after polls close at 10 p.m. (5 p.m. EDT), forming a viable government could take weeks.
Washington PostNov 12 2020
News
Who decides when an election is over?
The media don’t determine the winner, and President Trump has the right not to concede. But there are after-effects. Enter America’s next great civics lesson.
Dear reader:
When the presidential race was “called” last Saturday for former Vice President Joe Biden, I was sitting with a few other reporters in an Italian restaurant near the Trump National Golf Club in northern
Christian Science MonitorOct 02 2019
Opinion
How President Pence Would Blow Up 2020
If the Senate were to remove President Donald Trump from office—which could happen only on a bipartisan vote—the 2016 election results wouldn’t be overturned. Democrats wouldn’t control the White House. America’s reward for convicting Trump would be President Michael Richard Pence.
Nine out of every 10 Republican respondents said in a Quinnipiac poll released Monday that Trump should
PoliticoAug 23 2012
News
Romney, Obama tied up in three swing states
The latest polls in three critical battlegrounds – Florida, Ohio and Wisconsin – indicate President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney continuing to run neck-and-neck, though Obama has a slight edge in each of the three states.
CNN DigitalDec 02 2019
News
Elizabeth Warren has past ties to McKinsey consulting firm despite jabs at Buttigieg work there
Elizabeth Warren has criticized 2020 Democratic primary rival Pete Buttigieg for his work at McKinsey & Co. But the Massachusetts senator has ties of her own to the management consulting firm.
Last week, Warren, 70, targeted the South Bend, Indiana, mayor's work for McKinsey from 2007-2010, and called on him to release the list of all his former clients. Buttigieg, 37, has
Washington ExaminerFeb 26 2013
News
The sequester? Never heard of it.
Just one in four Americans are following the debate over the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts set to kick in on Friday very closely, according to a new Washington Post-Pew poll, numbers that serve as a reminder that although talk of the sequester is dominating the nations capitol, it has yet to permeate into the public at large.
Washington PostJul 14 2020
News
As Trump and Biden battle, election officials are running out of time, money for November
Heading into Georgia’s June 9 primary, McDuffie County Elections Director Phyllis Brooks had no choice but to assemble a last-minute crew to count votes.
Two of her three staffers were out with COVID-19. She had more than 2,500 absentee ballots to tally by hand
So Brooks brought in a handful of county employees and hired local teenagers to do the counting. Now, there’s no money
USA TODAYJul 13 2020
News
Democrats see immigration reform as topping Biden agenda
Democrats are vowing to move forward with immigration reform if presumptive nominee Joe Biden is elected president and the party also takes back the Senate in this fall’s elections.
The prospect would set up a bruising battle in Congress next year, one that Democrats shied away from in 2009 and 2010 after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 and Democrats expanded their Senate
The Hill