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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. 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 ...

  5. United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    The election of the president and for vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College.

  6. Political parties in the United States - Wikipedia

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    American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress ...

  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. United States Electoral College - Wikipedia

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    The reduction is to be proportionate to such people denied a vote. This amendment refers to "the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States" (among other elections). It is the only part of the Constitution currently alluding to electors being selected by popular vote.

  9. Democrats plot a path back to victory in Nevada after Trump ...

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    LAS VEGAS — Democrats just suffered a bruising defeat at the presidential level in Nevada for the first time in 20 years, fueled by a swing toward Republicans among working-class voters.. The ...