election 2016

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  12-21-2018
  

  The Enduring Russian Propaganda Interests in Targeting African-Americans

  by Jelani Cobb

  Russia’s social-media effort to stoke racial strife during the 2016 election is another example in Moscow’s long, complicated history of seeking to undermine American authority.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-26-2018
  

  The national security adviser who colluded with foreign powers — decades before Michael Flynn

  by Shane O’Sullivan

  New documents reveal that Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign colluded with a foreign government far more than historians thought.

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• SOURCE: Political Research Associates
  8/6/18 (date accessed)
  

  Why do white blue color workers in Pennsylvania support Trump?

  by Margaret Power

  Here's what a historian found when she began interviewing them.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  5-2-18
  

  What we didn’t know about Trump on Election Day 2016

  For one thing he vastly overstated his wealth.

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• 4/15/18
  

  How We Got Trump

  by Donne Levy

  The change in our political structure that led directly to Trump’s election.

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• 11-14-17
  

  “Lock Her Up”: So This Wasn’t Just a Rhetorical Flourish?

  by Richard E. Frankel

  Why this historian of Modern German History is alarmed by Trump’s call on the Justice Department to investigate Hillary Clinton.

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• 11-14-17
  

  We’ve Gotten Wrong What Russia Did to Us in 2016

  by Joe Krulder

  They used our own social media tools against us in a propaganda blitz so massive as to warrant us calling it Cold War 2.0.

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• SOURCE: History channel
  11-8-17
  

  Just How Divided Are Americans Since Trump’s Election?

  Recent polls have confirmed that Americans are feeling bitterly split.

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• 11-12-17
  

  Will Trump’s Election One Year Ago Prove to Be a Turning Point for Women’s Equality?

  by Katrin Schultheiss

  Women have tended to make the greatest strides toward political, social, and economic equality during times of turmoil and unrest. Is the era of Trump such a moment?

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• 11-5-17
  

  Russia Almost Certainly Made Donald Trump President

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  They used the winning formula of going negative, negative, negative.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10-24-17
  

  Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination

  More than half of whites — 55 percent — surveyed say that, generally speaking, they believe there is discrimination against white people in America today.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  7-26-17
  

  Half of Trump voters say Trump won popular vote

  A Politico/Morning Consult poll out early Wednesday found 49 percent of Trump voters think he won the popular vote, compared to just 40 percent who think Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won it.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  5-8-17
  

  Why did Trump win?

  More whites — and fewer blacks — actually voted.

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• SOURCE: Princeton Alumni Weekly
  4-19-17 (accessed)
  

  Sean Wilentz and Kevin Kruse: What was the election of 2016 all about?

  A conversation.

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• SOURCE: San Antonio Express-News
  1-21-17
  

  Did Obama err in not outing Russian meddling?

  by Kyle Longley

  He made the same decision LBJ did a generation earlier when evidence surfaced that Nixon had exploited foreign ties to manipulate the election. 

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• 3-26-17
  

  Did Donald Trump Win Because He Had a Better Slogan?

  by Donne Levy

  Probably not. But what history shows is that presidential slogans are snapshots capturing the desires, aspirations, and sometimes fears of the American people.

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• 3-12-17
  

  The Disturbing Factor that Shapes Our Attitudes About the Electoral College, Primaries and Direct Democracy

  by Geoffrey Cowan

  What we think often depends on our self interest, not on a broader view of the best process.

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• 3-26-17
  

  Women Vote for Women?

  by Sandra Weber

  It’s a stale myth and it stinks.

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• 2-26-17
  

  Why Did the Democrats Fail ?

  by Walter G. Moss

  And where do we go from here?

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• 2-16-17
  

  So You Think Trump’s Victory Was an Outlier Because the Election Was so Close?

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Actually, very slim vote margins in numerous presidential elections have transformed American history.