By Cat Lindsay Many democracies have elected female leaders, but in the 235-year history of US politics there has never been a female president. Historically US leaders have been white males, with Obama making history as the first African American president in 2009. Obama said to a group of US voters: “Coming up with all…
Who are the candidates and what do they stand for? The two main parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, nominated their presidential candidates by holding a series of votes called state primaries and caucuses. In the Republican Party, former President Trump won his party’s support with a huge lead over his rivals. Trump, who served…
Each American state is allocated a certain number of so-called ‘electoral college’ votes based partly on population. Hence, large populous states like California and Texas have 54 and 50 electoral college votes respectively while states like Delaware, Alaska. Vermont and Wyoming have just three each. There is a total of 538 up for grabs across…
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