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Opinion

AP VoteCast: How Trump built a winning 2024 coalition

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Big shifts within small groups and small shifts within big groups helped propel Donald Trump’s return to the White House. The Republican candidate won by holding onto his traditional coalition — white voters, voters without a college degree and older voters — while ...

What if voting is fruitless?

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WASHINGTON — What if you were allowed to vote only because it didn’t make a difference? What if no matter how you voted, the elites always got their way? What if the concept of one person/one vote was just a fiction created by the government to induce your compliance? What if democracy as ...

Election discord should end with election

Editorial

We’ve made it. The 2024 General Election is relegated to the history books and not a moment too soon. Over the past few years, the American political landscape has become fraught with anger, hatred and dehumanization, with this election cycle being the worst of the bunch. It is no secret to ...

Almanac

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By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Nov. 8, the 313th day of 2024. There are 53 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 8, 1923, Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that came to be known as the ...

Election Night’s least surprising result is a bipartisan

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WASHINGTON — Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris are surely experiencing disappointment, but one of the Biden-Harris administration’s pillars -- “industrial policy” -- won big on Tuesday. That’s because it’s already been embraced by both parties. President-elect Donald Trump ...

Democracy lives in brightness

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WASHINGTON — In the end, Kamala Harris was the wrong candidate with the wrong message at the wrong time. President-elect Donald Trump won the greatest comeback in American political history - bigger than Richard Nixon’s 1968 victory - by surviving two assassination attempts, a media that ...