WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The nation’s first congressional election since President Donald Trump’s victory is taking place today for a seat Republicans have held for two decades in a south-central Kansas district Trump carried with 60 percent of the vote. But while the race in the heavily Republican district makes the state’s GOP Treasurer Ron [...]
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Jill Stein’s bid to recount votes in Pennsylvania was in trouble even before a federal judge shot it down Dec. 12. That’s because the Green Party candidate’s effort stood almost no chance of detecting potential fraud or error in the vote — there was basically nothing to recount. Pennsylvania is one of [...]
“Sign, sign, everywhere a sign — blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind.” Apologies to the Five Man Electrical Band and its 1971 hit song, but campaign yard signs are sprouting like weeds in this particularly polarizing election cycle. With them have come vandals carving Trump signs into “Rump” signs, and vigilantes defying local ordinances [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — What happens if America wakes up on Wednesday to another undecided, hotly disputed presidential election? What if the outcome turns on the razor-thin margin in one or two states, one candidate seeking a recount, the other going to court? We know what happened in 2000, when the Supreme Court in a 5-4 [...]
Voters who seek the status quo in a presidential race tend to favor candidates who speak in a restrained fashion, while those who want a candidate to upend the current state of affairs seek a firebrand, a new study confirms. The results of the experimental study may help explain the appeal of each party’s nominee [...]
The oldest millennials — nearing 20 when airplanes slammed into New York City’s Twin Towers — are old enough to remember the relative economic prosperity of the 1990s, and when a different Clinton was running for president. The nation’s youngest adults — now nearing 20 themselves — find it hard to recall a reality without [...]
CINCINNATI — Just in time for the Cleveland-hosted Republican National Convention this month and as the general election campaign heats up, a new book, “The Bellwether,” examines Ohio’s importance in picking the nation’s president. Every four years, Ohio becomes, to paraphrase its former tourism slogan, the heart of it all, with the candidates, their surrogates [...]