Today on our tour of the swing states we visit Michigan, a state that in the past has been reliably blue for the most part since the 1980s, after voting exclusively Republican prior to that. Like Wisconsin, it became a battleground state after former President Donald Trump won there by less than 11,000 votes in 2016. Joe Biden took the state back ( Read more... )

Wisconsin was once considered a reliably blue state, part of the so-called Rust Belt. It became a huge battleground state after former President Donald Trump won a narrow victory there in 2016. The state went back into the Democrat's column in 2020, but once again their victory was a narrow one, and the polarization within the state became clear.

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It seems strange to think of Georgia as being a swing state. Up until the 2020 election, it was considered a safe red state, landing safely in the Republican column in every election before that since Bill Clinton won the state in his first bid for the Presidency (only to lose it to Bob Dole four years later.)

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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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Immigration (and especially illegal immigration) is one of the most important issues in the upcoming election, and one of the states most affected by this issue is Arizona, a state which shares a border with Mexico. Known as the Grand Canyon State, for decades Arizona has been characterized as a red state. President Joe Biden bucked that trend and ( Read more... )

According to one commonly accepted definition, a swing state is a state where candidates of both major political parties “have similar levels of support,” and one that’s “considered to play a key role in the outcome of presidential elections.” 270 to win classifies swing states as being those in which the aggregate of recent polling data shows ( Read more... )

On the afternoon of Sunday, September 15, 2024, former President Donald Trump was playing golf at the Trump International Golf Course West Palm Beach. While the golf game was taking place, at around 1:30 p.m. Eastern time, a Secret Service agent spotted a man with a rifle standing by a chain-link fence on the perimeter of the course. This agent and ( Read more... )

Early in his first debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, and shortly after Harris mocked Donald Trump's rallies as being so filled with fictions and fringe theories that attendees leave early, Trump responded by trying to pivot back to the subject under discussion, immigration. His response was surprising to many and unexpected. Trump said:

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In this community in the past we've discussed Professor Allan Lichtman and his "13 Keys," a prediction system for determining the outcome of US Presidential elections. Lichtman developed the system in 1981, along with Russian geophysicist Vladimir Keilis-Borok, and since its inception, it has successfully predicted the outcome of every presidential ( Read more... )

Taylor Allison Swift is probably the most well-known person on the planet. The thirty-four year old is one of the world's best-selling musical artists. She has sold an estimated 200 million records and seven of her albums have been releases to sales of over one million during the first week. She has been listed amongst history's greatest artists by ( Read more... )