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To hear Vice President Mike Pence tell it, Hillary Clinton‘s email debacle makes her one of the most corrupt politicians since Richard Nixon. But what about his emails? Emails obtained through public record inquiries by the IndyStar show Mike Pence used a private AOL email account, which has been under scrutiny since November, to handle sensitive government…
Third party voters were blamed for Trump’s election, but Clinton’s inability to motivate her own party’s voters was a far greater factor in her defeat. Anthony L. Fisher|Jan. 6, 2017 12:32 pm Stop the presses. Turns out it wasn’t Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, and Evan McMullin that cost Hillary Clinton her spot in the Oval…
Since Gallup began asking Americans the people they admired the most, there’s been a consistent pattern: Whoever was president or president-elect was almost always the man the country admired the most. The most admired woman? Usually someone who had been married to a president. Only five times has the most admired man in the country not…
CNN commentator Van Jones — guesting on “State of the Union” on Sunday — channeled many on the left in denouncing “the Clinton days” of the Democratic Party, which he said were characterized by centrism and unabashed corporatism. “You have to understand, I think, that the Clinton days are over,” Jones told host Jake Tapper. “This…
Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images Bill and Hillary Clinton have decided to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, according to two sources with knowledge of their plans. The Clintons will join former Presidents George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter, who have also announced that they will attend. George…
Even when they voted, more people bypassed the main event than usual. Scott Shackford|Dec. 14, 2016 4:15 pm Piero Oliosi/Polaris/NewscomWe already know that one of the predictable consequences of having two unpopular major party candidates—Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton—led to poor voter turnout (when presented as a percentage of the voting population). One of the…
Jill Stein, the Green party’s presidential candidate, is preparing to request recounts of the election result in several key battleground states. Stein launched an online fundraising page seeking donations toward a multimillion-dollar fund she said was needed to request reviews of the results in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The drive has already raised more than…
The 2016 election took place under the spectre of a bubble. Not the subprime mortgage lending bubble that shaped the 2008 election, but the “filter bubble”. Tens of millions of American voters gets their news on Facebook, where highly personalized news feeds dish up a steady stream of content that reinforces users’ pre-existing beliefs. Facebook…
They will blame James Comey and the FBI. They will blame voter suppression and racism. They will blame Bernie or bust and misogyny. They will blame third parties and independent candidates. They will blame the corporate media for giving him the platform, social media for being a bullhorn, and WikiLeaks for airing the laundry. But…
Illustration by Victor Juhasz Saturday, early October, at a fairground 40 minutes southwest of Milwaukee. The very name of this place, Elkhorn, conjures images of past massacres on now-silent fields across our blood-soaked history. Nobody will die here; this is not Wounded Knee, but it is the end of an era. The modern Republican…