Presidential Election Archive
Archives for November 2016
Many people who didn’t want Trump to win inadvertently helped him do so.
“Drain the swamp” — by filling it with rancid water first.
Voter suppression might explain Clinton’s loss in Wisconsin — but not Florida, Michigan, or Pennsylvania.
Clinton’s loss can be explained. Trump’s win rewrites what we know about American politics.
The landmark abortion-rights case probably, maybe, won’t be overturned in the next four years. In the longer term, it’s complicated.
“He’s the president, and that really does change everything.”
Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels on the GOP’s future after Trump.
Almost all of it could be gone.
And it shouldn’t, because that wouldn’t end well at all.
The world could use more empathy from everyone.
The reason we can be hit so hard by an election outcome is because of something psychologists call “false consensus effect.”
Four states legalized marijuana for recreational purposes, and three more legalized medical pot.
A lot of Americans don’t vote.
Trump ran on a “tough on crime” platform. But the president just isn’t that powerful on these issues.