The 2020 US Presidential election will probably be most remembered for what occurred after the ballots were counted, but before election day, an October surprise caused one of the campaigns to pause, and it may have been the reason for the contest's eventual outcome.


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Abortion access is expected to be a key topic during the upcoming campaign for President. This is the first presidential election to be held in the aftermath of two major court rulings that affected access to abortion. The first is the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, in which the United States Supreme Court overturned ( Read more... )

The final election discussed in this series is the 2020 Presidential Election when Donald Trump ran for a second consecutive term in office. He was defeated in his bid for re-election, but claimed that the election had been stolen from him as the result of massive voter fraud. Although this allegation has failed to be proven in a great number of ( Read more... )

In the words of a New York Times movie reviewer, "history belongs to those who tell it." How will history remember the 2020 Presidential election and the first year of the Biden presidency? Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns tell it as they saw it in their 2022 book This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America's Future. The authors ( Read more... )

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(With apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer}

The outlook wasn't brilliant for the incumbent on that day,
The polls were all for Biden and were stuck there without sway.
RCP gave Joe 320, Nate Silver gave him more;
If they were right, he'd soon be on the short end of the score.


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The 2020 Presidential Election will go down in history as one of the most unique and unprecedented, mainly for the fact that it has occurred as the nation and the world experienced a pandemic. The intensely polarized climate has affected not only public attitudes towards the candidates, but also regarding the pandemic itself. The election has also ( Read more... )

In November of 2019 we looked at the process of impeachment and the instances throughout American history when this method of removing a federal officeholder has been used, including in the efforts to remove a number of Presidents from office. On November 30, 2019, we wrapped up that series with an essay setting out the lessons learned from past ( Read more... )

Last night the New Hampshire Democratic Presidential Primary was held, and with 95% of the polls reporting, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders finished in first place in the popular vote, while Sanders and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg each won 9 of the state's 24 delegates to the Democratic Party's nominating convention. Among the leading ( Read more... )

I sometimes wonder if on mornings like today, the state of Iowa lets out a collective sigh of relief and says to itself, "thank God that's over." The state must resemble a ghost town as presidential candidates and their entourages pack up and head east on the road to New Hampshire. True to its "first in the nation" status, the 2020 Iowa Democratic ( Read more... )