Election News
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opinion
Postelection, Rebuilding the US Military Just Became That Much Harder
With Democrats regaining control of the House of Representatives, the path to rebuilding America’s military just became more challenging. For the past two years, Pentagon officials have laid out in stark detail how the military had deteriorated over the past decade, owing to underfunding and overuse in two protracted conflicts. Shortly after he arrived at… -
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3 Tight Elections Could Face a Recount. Here’s Where Things Stand.
The 2018 midterm elections are going into overtime in some hot statewide races. For those readers who were either too young to remember the Florida recount in 2000—or suppressed that memory—it’s all playing out again. Here’s where the most tightly contested races stand. Florida As of this writing, Florida’s governor and U.S. Senate races are… -
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Rubio Says Democrat Lawyers Are Going to Florida to ‘Change the Results of Election’
Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is warning that the fate of his state’s governorship could hang in the hands of Florida’s Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes, whom he’s called incompetent for violating state and federal laws. A liberal candidate similarly painted her as incompetent and corrupt. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum initially conceded… -
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Liberals Aren’t Losing Faith in Our Constitutional System. They Just Don’t Like Its Results.
In liberals’ imaginations, there are only four ways to lose elections—and none has to do with their leftist turn, their hysterics, or their one-dimensional identity politics. Democrats say they lose because of gerrymandering, voter suppression (sometimes known as asking for ID), Russian mind-control rays deployed by social media, and our antiquated and unfair Constitution. That… -
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Podcast: What Exit Polling Data Shows Voters Really Cared About
What did the election results really say about how the country views President Donald Trump? What issues do voters actually care about, and what are the independents thinking? And are all young adults really liberal? Oh, and what difference did the caravan or Brett Kavanaugh make in the election? Erin Norman of Heart and Mind… -
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Senate Election Results Give Republicans Opportunity to Confirm More Judges Faster
The 2018 election results are encouraging, if for no other reason than that more progress can be made in filling judicial vacancies. First, a snapshot of where things stand right now. President Donald Trump has made almost 40 percent more nominations to life-tenured positions than the average for his five predecessors of both parties at… -
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No ‘Green Wave’ as Voters Reject Ballot Measures on Climate Change in 3 States
Not only did a Democratic “blue wave” fail to materialize on Tuesday night, the “green wave” of major global warming and energy-related ballot measures largely failed to get voter approval, as well. Voters in Arizona, Colorado, and Washington rejected measures aimed at fighting global warming, despite two of those states being in Democratic hands. The… -
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Errant Phone Message Is a ‘Text’-Book Case for Voter ID Laws
I got an alarming text message a few weeks ago from an Ohio phone number I didn’t recognize. Someone—or perhaps some robot—named Caity, from a group called Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity, had an urgent message for me: “[V]oter suppression & purging is at an all-time high in Ohio,” the text read in part…. -
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Routine Election Monitoring Spurs ‘Suppression’ Claims From Left
In a routine pre-election action, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division will monitor polling sites in a total of 35 jurisdictions in 19 states. Some left-leaning websites cast the move as a voter-suppression effort because the attorney general’s announcement talked about voter fraud. In a press release Monday, Sessions… -
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7 of the Most Epic Midterm Elections in American History
President Donald Trump isn’t on the ballot, but will face the biggest electoral test of his presidency so far during Tuesday’s midterm election—one that may well end in repudiation or vindication. History is not on any president’s side in a midterm election. Since 1862, the president’s party on average loses 32 House seats and more… -
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San Francisco Registers 49 Noncitizen Voters—at a Cost of More Than $6,300 Each
The city of San Francisco spent $310,000 on a new registration system to enable noncitizens to vote in local school board elections, but as of Oct. 28, the effort had produced only 49 new registered voters for the Nov. 6 election. That means the city spent more than $6,326 for every noncitizen it registered, the… -
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New Voter Fraud Cases Show Need to Secure Our Elections
The midterm elections are less than a week away, and that means that ensuring the integrity of the electoral process is more important than ever. If Americans cannot say with certainty that their votes will be counted, that the process is free of fraud, and the outcome is valid, what incentive do they have to… -
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No, This Is Not the Most Important Election of Our Lifetimes
If you believe that a midterm election in a time of relative peace and economic prosperity is the most important in history or even the most important in your fortunate lifetime, you either are oblivious to history or don’t have a single nonpartisan synapse firing in your skull. Yet it’s now become standard for partisans… -
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Voter Fraud Undermines the Votes of Black Americans
We often hear people complain that their votes don’t count, and recent election results have many questioning our voting process. Indeed, without effective safeguards, the civil rights movement’s goal of making everybody’s vote count may never be achieved. White authorities in the Jim Crow South used tactics ranging from poll taxes to ballot destruction to… -
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The Latest Absurd Claim From Left: Requiring Voter Registration Is ‘Voter Suppression’ Tool
As Election Day rapidly approaches, the radical Left is making yet another absurd claim: that requiring voter registration is a “voter suppression” tool. Registration is essential to assure the integrity of elections. It allows election officials to verify the eligibility and identity of voters. It also enables them to make sure they will have enough ballots… -
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MSNBC Is Wrong. There Is Voter Fraud, and Here’s Evidence.
“Nobody has found any widespread instances of voter fraud.” That’s MSNBC host Katy Tur, expressing what passes for conventional wisdom on the left. They constantly tell us that efforts to pursue voter ID and similar measures are aimed not at election security, but at suppressing the vote. But those who peddle such a view probably… -
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Virginia Governor Set to Bypass Legislature to Join State-Based Climate Agreement
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is poised to implement a new regulation without legislative approval to join 10 other states in a climate change agreement based on restricting carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. But lawmakers, policy analysts, and tea party activists in Virginia who oppose what they consider costly regulations of industry are raising… -
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Critics of Pompeo’s Values Voters’ Speech Forget These Hillary Speeches to Leftists
Democrats, including at least one former aide to Hillary Clinton, express outrage that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will speak Friday at the Values Voter Summit, a 12-year-old annual event focused on traditional family values. But Politico, in a story about the flap published Tuesday, ignores speeches Clinton gave to politically charged groups while she was… -
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Swedish Election Result Was Fueled by Popular Discontent
Swedish voters went to the polls Sunday amid a backdrop of concerns over immigration and rising crime. The center-left bloc, led by Prime Minister Stefan Lofven’s Social Democrats, won 40.6 percent of the vote. The center-right alliance led by the Moderate Party came in narrowly second, with 40.3 percent, while the populist Sweden Democrats won 17.6… -
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Rep. Duncan Hunter Indicted for Allegedly Misusing $250K in Campaign Funds
California Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife were indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday on charges that they illegally spent more than $250,000 in campaign funds on vacations and personal items. The scheme took place between 2009 and 2016, according to the Justice Department. Hunter, a 41-year-old Republican, took office in 2009. “The…