David James writes, Many Americans often exercise willful blindness to our ugly past and cannot grasp the comparisons.

Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...

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Five candidates start off an election campaign, but only one will emerge victorious, chosen by the people. Sounds like ...

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Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina, the Republican nominee for governor, vowed to stay in the race and pre-emptively ...

In the last 15 presidential bids, one candidate has led by five or more points in the polls for at least three weeks—except ...

Finding out who will be America's 47th president could take quite some time after election night, if speculations from a recent New York Times article prove true. With just over 50 days left until ...

Betting odds narrowly favor former President Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris as the candidates head into the first debate between each other at the National Constitution Center in ...

I feel really confident that it's now the typical election night polls have closed and the ballots are being counted. You're either sound asleep or glued to *** screen anxiously waiting to see the ...

Voters in northern New Jersey are set to settle a special U.S. House election to fill the seat that opened when Rep. Donald ...

Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver (D) has won the special election to fill a vacant House seat representing New ...