2020 election
What Happened In Maine? Collins Surprisingly Held Her Own This Election. Here’s Why.
Collins benefited from a tendency among Mainers to split tickets in 2008, when 58 percent backed Barack Obama, and 61 backed her. The same tendency helped her in 2020.
Where Things Stand: Very Few Want To Be Doing This
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And that, apparently, includes employees of the law firms representing the Trump campaign.
Around the same time that news broke that a Justice Department official — who oversaw the DOJ’s election crimes unit — resigned on Monday evening, the New York Times published a story detailing the angst within the law firms the Trump campaign has tapped to handle its various legal challenges to the election.
Even After Biden Win, Our Obsolete Electoral College Must Go
For days, Americans fretted over just a few thousand votes in swing states.
Trump Doubt-Sowing Aside, A Relatively Smooth Election Was A Big Win For Voters
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