In 2016, it looked like it was finally time for the country to elect a woman as President of the United States. Hillary Clinton had expected to be the Democratic Party's nominee for President eight years earlier in 2008, but a charismatic Illinois Senator who had not even served a full term in the Senate, named Barack Obama, snatched that prize. In ( Read more... )

In this community previously, we have talked about Professor Alan Lichtman and his "13 Keys" that he has used to successfully predict the outcome of every Presidential election nine of the last ten times. (He narrowly missed calling the 2000 election correctly, but it's hard to fault him for that one.) Lichtman is a sort of real-like Hari Seldon ( ( Read more... )

Those who are said to have some expertise in this field have stated that foreign interference in the 2024 election is likely. Three major factors are listed as contributing to this likelihood. The first is increasing levels of political polarization (creating the opportunity for those wanting to interfere with the election by using those on the ( Read more... )

Hillary Clinton was the person many expected to become the Democratic Party's candidate for President in 2008. That didn't happen, and when Barack Obama began his second term in office, early speculation began about whether Clinton would get another chance to become President in 2016. A January 2013 Washington Post-ABC News poll supported the idea ( Read more... )

The 2016 Republican Primary season will be remembered as a time when the party establishment wanted to stop Donald Trump from winning their party's presidential nomination, while the primary voters and caucus goers had other ideas. It was the year of Brexit, a year when populist ideas appear to have been at high tide. It was a year when the Trump ( Read more... )

By the time the 2016 election took place, conspiracy theories had grown exponentially thanks to the phenomenon of social media. Now, instead of standing on a street corner with a megaphone, conspiracy theorists could spread their message faster and with wider distribution over media such as Facebook and Twitter. Making matters worse, internet ( Read more... )

In 2016 a world-wide populist trend reached its pinnacle in November of 2016 with the election of Donald John Trump as President of the United States. Born on June 14, 1946, Trump hailed from the Queens borough of New York City. He had an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, but had never held any elected ( Read more... )

The 2016 Republican Primary season will be remembered as a time when the party establishment wanted to stop Donald Trump from winning their party's presidential nomination, while the primary voters and caucus goers had other ideas. It was the year of Brexit, a year when populist ideas appear to have been at high tide. It was a year when the Trump ( Read more... )

Hillary Clinton approached the 2016 presidential election looking like a sure bet to win the big prize. She had an impressive resume, name recognition, a rich war chest, the support of her party's establishment, an electoral college advantage and no high profile opponents for her party's nomination. She had the potential to make history as the ( Read more... )

The recent world-wide populist trend reached its pinnacle in November of 2016 with the election of Donald John Trump as President of the United States. Born on June 14, 1946, Trump hailed from the Queens borough of New York City. He had an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, but had never held any elected ( Read more... )