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Photo via AP “The sun is up,” Barack Obama said in his first public remarks since Donald Trump was elected president. “I know everybody had a long night. I did as well.” Addressing the nation from the Rose Garden, Obama said he called Trump early Wednesday morning to congratulate him on his victory and to…
Images via AP. On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton gave her concession speech and reminded little girls everywhere that they are “valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity” to pursue their dreams. They’re particularly painful words to hear after watching Clinton lose to the political manifestation of male privilege. But there were some other…
Nov 9, 2016 If I see one more ‘this election is Facebook’s fault’ tweet, take or thinkpiece I might spontaneously combust. Could you any more miss the point? Facebook is a tool for more efficiently deciding what content you see. The problem has never been how we look out on to the world, but what…
The Huffington Post’s editor’s note calling Donald Trump as a “racist” and “xenophobe” is no more, a source in the newsroom tells POLITICO. For months, every story on the Huffington Post about Trump came with the following note at the bottom of the article. “Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a…
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Trump supporters march in New York on election night. Photo via AP. You want to know how close this election is? Here is how sickeningly, nauseatingly close it is right now, via some projections from the New York Times: The New York Times’ live predictions from their Upshot blog are ever-changing but are still making…
Your Post Has Been Launched! Fabulous! Don’t forget to share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook. Nebraska voters decided on Tuesday to bring back the death penalty in the state, more than a year after the legislature voted to repeal it. When the legislature abolished the death penalty, overriding a veto by Gov. Pete…
Based on exit polls, the 2016 presidential election seems to have dramatically redefined how certain demographic groups vote. Generated by ai2html v0.61 – 2016-11-08 – 21:16 ai file: legend preview: 2016-11-08-election-exit-poll-analysis scoop : “exit-poll-analysis” Artboard: Artboard_1 End ai2html – 2016-11-08 – 21:16 Trump overwhelmingly won votes of whites without college degrees. Donald J. Trump did…
Photo Credit: Marc Piscotty/Getty As I type this, a man who called Mexicans rapists, mocked a reporter’s physical disability, bragged about committing sexual assault, and wants to ban an entire religious group from entering the country is leading Hillary Clinton by 150 electoral votes to 109. I feel physically ill. For so long during the…
The end is near. Welcome to Salon’s Live Election Blog, where we will provide you up-to-the-minute results on the fate of America. A Twitter List by Salon 7:15 pm (AP) In both Virginia and Georgia, about 9 in 10 black voters and two-thirds of Hispanics backed Clinton, while most whites backed Trump. That’s according to exit…