Despite hopes that he might pull off a narrow victory, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum lost his gubernatorial bid against Republican Ron DeSantis. He would have been the first black governor of Florida and the first Democrat to govern the state in 20 years.
Republican Kris Kobach, perhaps America’s leading proponent of voter suppression, was defeated in his race for Kansas governor on Tuesday night.
Ted Cruz is predicted to hold on to his Senate seat. The unexpectedly tight victory brings an end to a race that captured the nation’s attention, both as a reflection of a changing political landscape in Texas and a proxy for the nation.
Today, the voters of Massachusetts opted to retain a 2016 law protecting people from discrimination in public places, regardless of their gender. The vote represents a disaster for a coalition of Christian conservative activists that had hoped to make liberal-leaning Massachusetts the first state to repeal a law…
Girl Scouts just wanna have members, but time marches on.
Tonight is incredibly stressful for everyone who covers politics, but I can say with certainly that we in the Splinter newsroom are far less stressed than the big prediction boys, who were frantically banging on the hoods of their prediction-machines to get them to do stuff.
Here’s one bit of good news out of Florida to tide you over no matter what happens for the rest of this hell night: A majority of Floridians voted in favor of Amendment 4, which restores voting rights for people with felony convictions. This will restore the right to vote to 1.5 million people, according to data from…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is going to Washington. The 28-year-old democratic socialist from New York’s 14th Congressional district won Tuesday’s election, defeating Republican Anthony Pappas. Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign refused to take corporate money, ran hard on economic and social justice, and offered a full-throated…
On Tuesday night, Rashida Tlaib made history by winning her congressional race. She will be the first Muslim American women in Congress, a distinction she is likely to share with Minnesota Democrat, Ilhan Omar.
On Tuesday night, Ayanna Pressley became the first black woman to represent Massachusetts in Congress. She ran uncontested in the general election.
Demi Lovato broke her months-long Instagram silence, and then Instagram, by posting a picture of herself at the polls on Tuesday.
How do you get peanut butter out of cashmere? Asking for a sloppy friend (ok ok it’s me.)
It’s election night in America, and that means three things: I’m scared, I’m probably going to have stress poops, and I’m going to watch a lot of Steve Kornacki on MSNBC.
Polls were real bad today, apparently.
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Well, comrades, it’s finally here: Election Day 2018.
Voters in Georgia have been having a real fucking time of it.
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
My father cast his first vote in a presidential election in 1968, in New York, for comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory. During Nixon’s impeachment in 1974, he was in the hospital for leukemia treatments; he ordered a television specifically to his room to watch the news, and told me that he remembered…
Beyonce has spoken: The Houston native is all for Beto O’Rourke.
