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 2012, it looked as if incumbent President Barack Obama might be vulnerable and the Republicans could possibly retake the White House. He had used considerable political capital passing the Affordable Care Act in his first term, and in the mid-term elections, control of the House of Representatives changed from the Democrats to the Republicans. ( Read more... )

Today is President Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday. James Earl Carter Jr.was born on October 1, 1924 at the Wise Sanitarium, in Plains, Georgia. He was the first president to be born in a hospital.


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Among the most hotly contested of the swing states in the 2024 Presidential election is also one of the contest's biggest prizes. Whichever candidate gets the most votes for President in Pennsylvania also gets the state's nineteen electoral college votes, the most up for grabs in any of the swing states.

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As with all modern Presidential elections, there is a media obsession with polling data, as pundits try to predict what will happen on November 5, 2024 (election day.) Nationwide polling data predicts a very close election, and as Thomas Dewey and Hillary Clinton learned the hard way, polling data can often be wrong. Polling data also comes with a ( Read more... )

The Democratic Party held their convention to formally nominate their candidates for President and Vice-President in Chicago from August 19 to 22. The formal vote to nominate Kamala Harris and Tim Walz as the Democratic Party's ticket had already taken place virtually during the first week of August, and so the convention was ceremonial as ( Read more... )

On August 6, 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris announced that Minnesota Governor Timothy James Walz would be her running mate in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Walz, who was born on April 6, 1964, is a former school teacher, former football coach, and retired U.S. Army non-commissioned officer. Since 2019 he has served as the 41st Governor ( Read more... )

On July 21, 2024, incumbent President Joe Biden, the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for re-election as President of the United States, announced his withdrawal as a candidate for President in 2024 and endorsed his Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement.


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Today is former President Bill Clinton's 78th birthday. He was born with the name William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. His father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before young Bill was born. His mother, Virginia Dell ( Read more... )

On August 4, 1961 (63 years ago today), Barack Hussein Obama II was born, not in Kenya as some have claimed, but in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was the 44th President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office. President Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the ( Read more... )