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1 hour ago · But it’s also true that the Electoral College has saved us a lot of headaches over the years. Washington Post columnist George Will points out that the 1960 election would have been an administrative disaster were it not for the system: “John F. Kennedy’s popular vote margin over Richard M. Nixon was just 118,574,” wrote Will.
4 hours ago · Democratic. The 1964 United States presidential election was the 45th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1964. Incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Republican Senator Barry Goldwater in a landslide victory. Johnson was the fourth and most recent vice president to succeed the presidency ...
4 hours ago · Recorded January 28, 1986. Other offices. 1968 [5] –1969: [6] Chair of the Republican Governors Association. Ronald Wilson Reagan ( / ˈreɪɡən / ⓘ RAY-gən; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
1 day ago · The vice president of the United States ( VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch [8] [9] of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession. The vice president is also an officer in the legislative branch, as the president of the Senate.
7 hours ago · The debate comes weeks ahead of the Republican and Democratic nominating conventions, when party delegates choose their respective presidential nominees, making it an especially early matchup.
4 hours ago · The nation’s unemployment rate stayed below 4% for 27 months, its longest such streak and a match for a period in the 1960s. That streak ended last month, when the unemployment rate rose to 4% from 3.9%. At the same time, the number of job openings in the US recently fell to a new three-year low, another sign of cooling in the labor market.
4 hours ago · The US administration of Joe Biden said it was keeping a close eye on events in Bolivia and "calls for calm," according to a spokesperson for the National Security Council. Condemnations of the troop movements also poured in from across Latin America, with leaders of Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela calling for democracy to be respected.
