In 2008, Barack Obama defeated John McCain to become President, winning 28 states and 365 votes in what is still the largest landslide of the 21st century. Not only did Obama run up margins in traditional Democratic strongholds and capture swing states, but he also found himself within striking distance of McCain in multiple Republican […]
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A few months ago, Texas made waves after its Republican government revealed that they were planning to redistrict the state’s congressional seats. The reason: to make Texas districts more conservative, by either packing many liberal areas into one district, or cracking a heavily liberal area among multiple districts. In this, the GOP legislature’s goal is
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On May Second, President Trump announced his 2026 Budget Proposal. The bill is considered unprecedented, with over 163 billion dollars of cuts in total, or an average 23 percent cut to non-defense programs. Here, I will go through the specifics of the proposal, and how it affects different areas of government. Defense: The Defense budget
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Every 4 years, Americans are bombarded with news, ads, and flyers about the upcoming Presidential Election. Among this flurry comes a plethora of predictions and polls that seek to give insights on how states will vote, and what the results will be. While many companies have been made to try to poll and predict the
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The Urban-Rural divide is one of the most prevalent political divisions in America today. Rural counties are virtually guaranteed to go for Republicans, Urban counties will always go for Democrats, and so the real war is fought in suburban counties, which played a very large part in Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. But it wasn’t always
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On April 4rth, 2023, Finland joined NATO in one of the biggest news stories of this year. The story has been riddled with ongoing press coverage, and deservedly so. Finland joining NATO affects the European landscape in many ways, especially when it comes to Russia, and will change the political and military landscape of the
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This Tuesday, China’s prime minister Xi Jinping scheduled a visit to Vladamir Putin in Russia that had been in the works for months. Also on Tuesday, Japan’s prime minister Fumio Kishida visited Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine in a previously unknown move. This highlights a stark contrast between two nations that seem very similar. Japan and
This week has shown the vast difference between Japan and China. Read More »
This Tuesday, the State of the Union address will occur, where Joe Biden will talk about the success and goals of his administration. Last year, around 38 million Americans tuned in to watch the address, which featured viral moments like Biden confusing Ukrainian’s for Iranians. So to catch you up, I’ll take you through all
Joe Biden has served half a term. What has he accomplished? Read More »
Now that the 2022 midterms are over, the 2024 Presidential Race is rapidly approaching. While pundits have been talking about a presidential bid from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, In all likelihood, when we make it out of the primaries the Presidential race will be between two very familiar people – Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
2024 might be the best chance third parts have had in 30 years. Read More »
We are now less than 20 days away from 2023, so I thought it might be cool to recap this year’s biggest events from each month, starting from January. January: While you might not remember much from January, a lot still happened. For example, in covid related news, the number of worldwide COVID-19 cases topped
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