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  2. Voting rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    U.S. presidential election popular vote totals as a percentage of the total U.S. population. Note the surge in 1828 (extension of suffrage to non-property-owning white men), the drop from 1890 to 1910 (when Southern states disenfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites), and another surge in 1920 (extension of suffrage to women).

  3. Elections in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The restriction and extension of voting rights to different groups has been a contested process throughout United States history. The federal government has also been involved in attempts to increase voter turnout, by measures such as the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. The financing of elections has also long been controversial ...

  4. Economic voting - Wikipedia

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    Research shows in the United States that voters punish the president's party in presidential, Senate, House, gubernatorial and state legislative elections when the local economy is doing poorly. [3] A 2021 study found evidence of economic voting in all U.S. presidential elections, all the way back to George Washington. [9]

  5. American election campaigns in the 19th century - Wikipedia

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    A History of the Australian Ballot System in the United States (1917) online; Fuller, A. James, ed. The Election of 1860 Reconsidered (Kent State University Press, 2013). p. 271. online review; Gerring, John. Party Ideologies in America, 1828–1996 (1998). Gienap, William E. The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852–1856 (Harvard University ...

  6. List of elections in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The 1914 midterm elections became the first year that all regular Senate elections were held in even-numbered years, coinciding with the House elections. The ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913 established the direct election of senators, instead of having them elected directly by state ...

  7. Trump Won the Election: How His Tax Plan Could Affect the ...

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    Donald Trump's election win signals changes in tax policies that could shape the financial future for middle-class Americans. While President-elect Trump promised to lower taxes for most Americans ...

  8. Electoral reform in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Most elections in the U.S. select one person; elections with multiple members elected through proportional representation are relatively rare. Typical examples include the House of Representatives , where all members are elected in single-member districts, by First-past-the-post voting , instant-runoff voting , or by the two-round system .

  9. A history professor who accurately predicted 9 of the last 11 ...

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    History professor Allan Lichtman said he was doxxed after wrongly predicting the election results. Lichtman, who has accurately predicted nine elections to date, called a Harris win in September.