The state’s voter rolls have grown by nearly 2 million since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, but polling locations have been cut by almost 10 percent, with Metro Atlanta hit particularly hard. Kathy spotted the long line of voters as she pulled into the […]
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Democrats are betting that demographic and economic change will improve their chances of success. Republicans are trying to preserve a Southern firewall. Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 by flipping Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, but he may not have been able to do so had Hillary Clinton not lost […]
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Tracking and other measures implemented in recent years should prevent repeat of ballot-harvesting exposed during 2018 election cycle. Worried about voting by mail? Or that North Carolina’s by-mail voting system is ripe for fraud? Don’t be. All over the state, election workers are doing what Lori Huskins did Monday in the Mitchell […]
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Could a decrease in rural support be part of a disappointing season for Republican candidates? The Daily Yonder looks at presidential and congressional races in three states: Pennsylvania, Maine and Montana. Conventional wisdom and national media narratives hold that in America’s 2020 presidential and congressional elections, urban areas will support […]
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You don’t have to go far to find evidence of support for Donald Trump’s re-election to the presidency in southern West Virginia. “Trump 2020” signs dot yards and interstate exit ramps, hang from front porches and are posted on the sides of barns and sheds. In late August, a boat […]
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Vice President Joe Biden has faced a lot of scrutiny when it comes to his position on fossil fuels. The first presidential debate was no exception. “Biden made it clear..No More Coal Fired Power Plants!! So, No More Coal!! Wake Up WV, PA,OH, KY,” reads one Facebook user’s text post. The […]
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