This is typically the awkward time in American politics when a president-elect has to attempt to pull the nation together.
Part of the way that’s done is to assure the people who didn’t vote for a candidate that the person who won isn’t really what the candidate presented during a campaign. That’s the way these things go, they say. You have to do things to get elected.
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The pundits who got things so wrong in the election are still working today and we’re still paying attention to what they’re saying. Nothing else to do until January, we suppose.
They’ve switched from writing about the death of the Republican Party to writing about the death of the Democratic Party. Read more →
A website with instructions and help on moving to Canada crashed at the height of returns on Election Night. Read more →
MPR’s best and brightest are providing live updates on the election. I’ll be contributing occasional observations below, too. But we’d like your analysis and thoughts in the comments section to further our conversation. Read more →
This has become an Election Day tradition in the last few years. People vote, then visit the grave of Susan B.Anthony. Read more →
Some things are bigger than what we’ve been told for the last few years is the biggest thing. Carrying on, for example. Read more →
Occasional NPR political commentator Cokie Roberts put herself in the line of fire this morning when she made a joke about birth control and Latino influence in tomorrow’s election.
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Donald Trump’s broadside against Somali immigrants in Minnesota is reminiscent of a similar attack he delivered a few months ago in Maine, an attack that prompted the decent people of Maine to rally around their fellow citizens. Read more →
This picture, taken at Sunday’s rally for Donald Trump at Sun Country Airlines, is racing across the Internet Read more →
The notion that an indictment is coming in the FBI probe of the Clinton Foundation likely won’t evaporate even though the reporter who invented the assertion has said he was wrong. Read more →
It says something about the state of the United States when the political ad worth watching is one for dog food. Read more →
What’s the big deal with parking in front yards? Basically, it’s ugly and allegedly ruins neighbors’ property values, the theory goes, so many communities outlaw the practice.
Your home may be your castle, but it’s not your parking lot. Read more →
Game 6 of the World Series is tonight and, if you believe the national media, there’ll be a Game 7 tomorrow night. And then, that’ll be it for baseball. It will disappear during the months of darkness, surely no coincidence.
The presidential campaign of 2020, however, will begin a week from today.
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It’s been eight years since the United States elected a black president, and some people are still depicting him in a lynching.
This time, it’s fans at last weekend’s University of Wisconsin game against Nebraska. Read more →
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