An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Presidential Election. Donald Trump Had A Superior Electoral College Strategy. What will it take for Democrats to woo the white working class? Democrats from President Obama on down are blaming their 2016 debacle in part on too much “identity politics” — messaging aimed not at voters broadly, but at Latinos, women, African Americans and the LGBT community as groups.
The one group Democrats did not target were their old mainstays, non-college-educated whites (especially the males of that species), who responded by giving Donald Trump a margin of 39 points over Hillary Clinton, while voters of color failed to vote for her in the expected numbers. Autocracy: Rules for Survival. “Thank you, my friends.
Democrats try to pick up the pieces. But Democrats are embarking on a soul-searching exercise to determine how they ended up in the political wilderness, losing the House, the Senate and the White House at a time when President Barack Obama's approval ratings are at record highs.
Hillary Clinton may very well still win the popular vote, and there are myriad theories about why Democrats fell short when it came to electoral college math: inaccurate polling and modeling, an unprecedented surge of white voters for Trump, Clinton's failure to ignite enough enthusiasm and excitement among women, blacks and Latinos. The Voting Habits of Americans Like You.
What Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Were Doing in Their 30s. What do Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich have in common?
They were all once 30-years-old. And while each of them celebrated – or cried about – their 20s coming to a close at different points in time, the careers and lives they were leading at age 30 offer a glimpse of who they’d later become. Here’s what all six remaining candidates were up to long before they were making headlines on a daily basis. Hillary Clinton. 2016 Primary Results and Calendar. South Carolina Republican exit poll results - Washington Post. Wednesday last day to register for March 15 presidential primary in Missouri.
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LOUIS • Wednesday is the final day for Missouri residents to register to vote in the state's March 15 presidential primary. Registration information and links are available at the Missouri Secretary of State's website, HERE. Missouri has two primaries this year: the presidential preference primary March 15, when Republican and Democratic voters will vote on their respective parties' presidential nominees; and the state-level primary Aug. 2, when party nominees will be chosen for governor and other statewide offices, U.S. Senate, congress and legislative seats. National Popular Vote - destroying the Electoral College. Introduction: What It Is - Why It's Needed.
Dispute Over Voter Data Leaves Some Missouri Democrats Frustrated. Click to enlarge Photo courtesy of Flickr/Jamelle Bouie Maria Chappelle-Nadal threatened to give a speech about how the Missouri Democratic Party "aborts the dreams of poor black girls ... who want to run for Congress.
" For candidates running for office, few tools are more essential than the NGP Voter Activation Network, or VAN. Which is one reason that candidates like Bruce Franks Jr. are frustrated that the Missouri Democratic Party won’t give them access. “By not be able to use those tools, it puts us at a disadvantage, especially when we’re running against incumbents who are experienced,” says Franks, a St.
Louis-area activist vying to become a state representative in his first-ever run for office. Sometimes called “the voter file,” the VAN software offers tools that, most simply, organize campaigns. Which States Cruz, Trump and Rubio Need to Win. Conservative states dominate the early primary calendar, providing an opening for Ted Cruz.
Republican Primary. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. The Daily 202 from PowerPost. The angriest and most pessimistic people in America aren’t the hipster protesters who flitted in and out of Occupy Wall Street.
They aren’t the hashtavists of #BlackLivesMatter. They aren’t the remnants of the American labor movement or the savvy young dreamers who confront politicians with their American accents and un-American legal status. The angriest and most pessimistic people in America are the people we used to call Middle Americans. All Politicians Lie. Some Lie More Than Others. Washington — I’m a political fact-checker, which is usually an automatic conversation starter at parties. These days, I get two questions repeatedly: “Is it worse than it’s ever been?” And “What’s up with Donald Trump?” What politics look like through 14-year-old eyes. You might not realize it or you might be unwilling to accept it, but the millennials are yesterday's news.
Just when we'd all grown accustomed to those little scamps with their portable telephones and so on, it turns out that some of them are in their mid-30s. There's another generation (if you choose to accept the endless scam that is generational differentiation) that's younger and more Internet-y and more hopeful and more of everything we'd just finally come to terms with about the millennials. And it is a generation without a name. The White House tried to call it the "Homeland Generation," since they appeared shortly after 9/11, which is kind of suspicious. Lindsey Graham: 'Tell Donald Trump to go to hell' "You know how you make America great again?
Tell Donald Trump to go to hell," Graham said on CNN's "New Day" on Tuesday, picking up on the GOP front-runner's famous slogan, "make America great again. " The South Carolina Republican was responding to Trump's statement released Monday calling for the U.S. to ban all Muslims from entering the country. Do accuracy and truth still matter on the campaign trail? Untitled. Seattle Voters Approve First-in-the-Nation 'Democracy Vouchers' Voters in Seattle, Washington on Tuesday approved a first-in-the-nation "democracy voucher" ballot initiative that could serve as a national model on campaign finance reform.
Initiative 122 (I-122), which was endorsed by nearly every Seattle City Council candidate and enjoyed the support of dozens of local and national progressive groups, passed 60-40, according to the King County Elections Office. Supporters say the innovative public campaign financing program could give everyday voters more control over the city's elections while limiting the power of corporate and special interests. The initiative states that for each city election cycle, or every two years, the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission (SEEC) will mail four $25 vouchers to each voter.
They can only be used in Seattle campaigns for mayor, city council and city attorney. Last year, Seattle's City Council passed a historic measure establishing a $15 minimum wage. Untitled. How Google Could Rig the 2016 Election - Robert Epstein. America’s next president could be eased into office not just by TV ads or speeches, but by Google’s secret decisions, and no one—except for me and perhaps a few other obscure researchers—would know how this was accomplished.
Research I have been directing in recent years suggests that Google, Inc., has amassed far more power to control elections—indeed, to control a wide variety of opinions and beliefs—than any company in history has ever had. Google’s search algorithm can easily shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20 percent or more—up to 80 percent in some demographic groups—with virtually no one knowing they are being manipulated, according to experiments I conducted recently with Ronald E.
Robertson. Given that many elections are won by small margins, this gives Google the power, right now, to flip upwards of 25 percent of the national elections worldwide. Google could 'rig the 2016 election,' researcher says - Aug. 20, 2015. My Question for the Republican Presidential Debate. CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News.
Could Koch brothers take out Donald Trump? - CNNPolitics.com. So the real estate magnate turned to Twitter on Sunday to mock rivals -- former Florida Gov. Koch calls for unity against 'corporate welfare' - CNNPolitics.com. Can the president and the vice president be from the same state? Check out this letter then-Governor Jeb Bush wrote to the swiftboaters in 2005. Oliver Willis dug up a letter Jeb Bush wrote to the men who orchestrated the smear campaign against then-presidential candidate John Kerry. Bernie Sanders on guns: Vermont independent voted against gun control, for PLCAA. Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images When Vermont Sen.
Bernie Sanders jumped into the 2016 presidential race, he was widely hailed as a far-left socialist who would appeal to the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. A liberal challenge to Hillary Clinton, said Politico. Donald Trump: Progressive champion? The Senate Votes That Divided Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Hillary Rodham Clinton is a liberal Democrat on domestic matters, and Bernie Sanders is a socialist.
Connecting the Dots Behind the 2016 Candidates.