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    8. USA: What happened in the American 2024 Presidential election?

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      Like many people the results of the 2024 election felt like a punch in the gut. I've been a news fast since then. I'm ready to start looking at what happened. I'm sure there are a lot of articles...

      Like many people the results of the 2024 election felt like a punch in the gut. I've been a news fast since then. I'm ready to start looking at what happened.

      I'm sure there are a lot of articles and videos.

      Could anyone recommend a fact based analysis of why Trump won? Something in the style of The Economist versus hyperbole laden news videos. :-)

      30 votes

    13. Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 13

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      This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...

      This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.

      This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.

      6 votes

    34. Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 6

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      This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...

      This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.

      This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.

      5 votes

    37. Jean-Marie Le Pen has died

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      Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead. My mother taught me to only say good things of the dead, so I'll say it's a good thing he's dead. Press release from the Élysée Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founder and first...

      Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead. My mother taught me to only say good things of the dead, so I'll say it's a good thing he's dead.

      Press release from the Élysée

      Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founder and first president of the National Front, passed away on January 7 at the age of 96.
      Born in 1928, Jean-Marie Le Pen served as a Member of Parliament three times, was a five-time presidential candidate, a seven-time Member of the European Parliament, a municipal councilor for the 20th arrondissement of Paris, and a regional councilor for Île-de-France and later Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Founder of the National Front in 1972, its president until 2011, and subsequently honorary president from 2011 to 2018, he reached the second round of the 2002 presidential election, where he secured 17.8% of the vote. A historic figure of the far-right, he played a role in the public life of our country for nearly seventy years, a legacy now left to the judgment of history.
      The President of the Republic extends his condolences to his family and loved ones.

      26 votes

    42. USA: Metrics for a presidential report card

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      Shortly after the election I saw a cartoon on Facebook titled "Let's Get A Baseline". It listed various prices for common goods and other assorted statistics. I looked up a few, and those were...

      Shortly after the election I saw a cartoon on Facebook titled "Let's Get A Baseline". It listed various prices for common goods and other assorted statistics. I looked up a few, and those were incorrect.

      A sort of "presidential report card" did seem like a neat idea to me. Something to be reviewed every January 20th. Perhaps in a chart that would make facts speak for themselves in social media.

      Are there any magazines or news sources that already do this? Something like The Economist?

      These are metrics I would like to see in such a chart, perhaps a bar graph.

      Please suggest others that you think ordinary voters would care about

      1. National debt
      2. Inflation
      3. Unemployment
      4. The GDP
      5. The literacy rate
      6. National match scores ( compared globally )
      7. The poverty rate
      8. Administration members indicted
      9. Average price of gas
      10. Average yearly salary
      11. Average retirement savings
      10 votes

    44. Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of December 30

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      This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...

      This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.

      This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.

      5 votes