A 105-Year-Old Feminist Discusses the Election
Previously: A 103-Year-Old Feminist Critiques the 2016 Presidential Candidates Ruth Littman has lived through 26 presidential elections. She’s been voting since 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt clobbered Herbert Hoover. She is as old as one Ted Cruz plus one Marco Rubio plus five North “Nori” Wests. Littman is 105. (Last week, she celebrated her birthday […]
Trump, Clinton Campaigns in Final Days Amid Voter Discontent
The campaigns of U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are criss-crossing the country in key battleground states in an attempt to energize voters as they enter the final weekend of a grueling and divisive campaign. A new poll has found that a great majority of voters are “disgusted” with two presidential hopefuls but […]
How Donald Trump Helped Protect Wall Street Against Fraud Charges
Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump has cast himself as both an anti-Wall Street populist and a straight shooter fed up with the waffling and equivocating that dominates business and politics. He disdains “crooked” Hillary Clinton, as he calls her, but the blunt-talking Trump is no stranger to the art of the lawyered caveat. In […]
Obama goes on ‘Trump attack’ in support of Clinton
Election tension appears to be intensifying across the US. A historic black church in Mississippi was burned and spray painted with “ Vote Trump” graffiti only days before the poll. With the the racist movement the Ku Klux Klan now declaring for Donald Trump, President Obama used it to attack the Republican candidate: “If you […]
Poll: Will Hillary Clinton emails affect how you vote?
TRENTON — With less than two weeks to Election Day, Hillary Clinton’s chances of becoming America’s first female president have been looking strong. The Democratic nominee is leading Republican rival Donald Trump in most polls. And Trump had been reeling from allegations of sexual misconduct from a number of women. But then, on Friday, Clinton […]
Joe Biden: Release Emails For ‘Whole World to See’
Hillary Clinton has Vice President Joe Biden’s support in the renewed probe into her email practices, but he is ruling out serving in her administration if she wins the presidency. Biden on Friday repeated Clinton’s calls for the FBI to release all the information it has related to emails it found Thursday while investigating disgraced […]
Trump Accuses Democrats of Making Up Polls Showing Clinton Ahead
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, trailing in his run for the White House, accused Democrats on Monday of making up phony polls to deflate his vote and make it look like Democrat Hillary Clinton is ahead. “They are phony polls, put out by phony media, trying to suppress our vote,” Trump told several dozen farmers […]
US Candidates Take Different Approaches to Being Tough on Terror
Amid rising public anxiety over terrorism, presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have tried to portray themselves as tough on national security. For Trump, the Republican nominee, that means being firm on immigration, a hot-button campaign issue that has expanded to dominate the debate over terrorism.
New Poll Puts Trump and Clinton in Dead Heat
With just two weeks to go before the election, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are tied in a new nationwide poll. Released early on Monday, the Investor’s Business Daily (IBD)/TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence (TIPP) poll says the candidates each have the support of 41 percent of the voters. To be precise, Clinton, the Democratic nominee for […]
Race or Religion? Exploring Hostilities Among Voters
Political scientists have long noted that politics is a competition between groups with diverse and competing interests. During campaigns, candidates actively attempt to sway certain groups and vilify others in order to garner support. In this year’s election, scholars and commentators have argued that the success of Donald Trump’s…