More than half of Americans live in counties where the vote margin between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was 20 percentage points or more. Still, the percentage of Americans living in landslide counties dropped a bit from 2016 to 2020. Republicans and Democrats were less divided in the 2020 election […]
Read More
Although the media called the 2020 President race weeks ago, states across the country are finalizing their recounts and certifying their tallies this week, but the outcome is unlikely to change. Vice President Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States. Appalachia is made up of 420 […]
Read More
Election Day delivered a presidential victory for the Democratic Party and narrowed the partisan split in the U.S. House and Senate. But it was nevertheless a victory for Republicans in the battle every decade to draw state and congressional districts that favor their party. Beginning in 2021, states will begin […]
Read More
I drove to the polls on Election Day not knowing what to expect. I decided not to vote early, despite the many texts urging me to do so. I didn’t make this decision out of fear that my vote was in danger of not being counted, but because I’m not […]
Read More
My professors knew my class work would start to lag behind the closer we got to Election Day. Every semester, I make it a point to let my professors know that the work I do as a journalist comes first. And this semester, my class work lagged behind for good […]
Read More
Major news networks and the Associated Press have declared Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election. What now? Here’s what we know. What does the media’s “call” of a winner actually mean? The media’s “call” of Biden as the winner doesn’t hold force of law. It’s simply the […]
Read More