The result in Georgia was less of a knife-edge than had been predicted – the reasons for this are embedded in the state’s difficult history.
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Allentown, Bethlehem and other old industrial cities in Pennsylvania have made a remarkable recovery − thanks in part to new residents from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
While Arizona voters have selected a Republican in nearly every presidential election from 1952 through 2016, a changing population and hot-button issues have given Democrats recent wins there, too.
At the time of independence, Pennsylvania was also at the geographical center of the 13 original Colonies. It remains a focal point of American politics, and a swing state.
Voters in Michigan and Ohio once voted similarly in statewide and federal elections. Now, Michigan swings blue and Ohio is red.
All seven Democrats set to take the stage on Dec. 19 had vowed to boycott the debate in support of a union that represents 150 food service workers in California.
How southern accents, Puerto Ricans and bias at the polls could change the map of traditional swing states as we know it.
The 2016 US presidential race has been a strange campaign in many ways, but the swing state map looks very familiar.
Every four years Iowa begins the presidential nomination process with the Iowa Caucuses. The start of caucus season is also the start of complaints by those who object to Iowa going first in the nomination…
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