Senate Races to Watch: Indiana and Wisconsin
The battle for the Senate will come to a close tomorrow, but before it does, The Takeaway is taking a look at two of the closest races in the nation. Indiana, normally a reliably Republican state,...
View ArticleCuomo to Allow Affidavit Ballots for Sandy Victims
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has agreed to issue an executive order that will allow displaced voters to cast ballots by affidavit at any polling site they can reach Tuesday.The order will permit...
View ArticleProblems Plague Polls in NJ, NY
Election day is over but the official counting continues in New York and New Jersey due to Sandy-related voting complications.Voters faced hour-long lines, new poll sites and — at least in New York...
View ArticleMaking Predictions
Sam Wang, Associate professor, Department of Molecular Biology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, of the Princeton Election Consortium helps us break down what to expect as voters go to the...
View ArticleTodd Purdum on the Election
Todd Purdum, national editor of Vanity Fair, talks about how the presidential campaigns were run and what he expects the outcome of today’s election to be.
View ArticleWhich Party Will Control the Senate?
The president and his opponent are receiving most of America’s attention today. But there are crucial Senate races unfolding across the country with the power to swing control in either...
View ArticleCan Superstition Predict Presidential Elections?
So many dollars, so many votes, so much punditry. But does any of it really matter? It all just comes down to luck, anyway. You can have your polling, Nate Silver. And you can stuff your siren, Matt...
View ArticleThe Election's $3 Billion Price Tag
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan, independent research group that tracks money in campaigns and elections, as of October 17, 2012, President Obama's campaign had spent...
View ArticleGoogle versus Pollsters: Who's Right?
Throughout the day, voters will be polled as they exit their voting stations. But how seriously should we be taking those polls? Isn’t there a more accurate measurement of the electorate than a few...
View ArticleThe Huge Ballot Measures You Forgot Existed
The focus today, and late Tuesday night, is on the presidential race. But farther down the ticket is often where we find the greater impact —representatives, judges, and statewide ballot measures.The...
View ArticleWhy Obama Won: Explaining the Patchwork Vote
How did Obama win? In part, by capitalizing on a powerful set of issues in the Democrats favor in 2012.11:59 — Why Obama WonWhen the many stories of 2012 are written, there should be a special focus...
View ArticleHow Are You Killing Time While Waiting To Vote?
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View ArticleSuburban Voting Trends
Larry Levy, executive director of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, talks about the final National Suburban Poll, which measures the voting preferences of the nation's...
View ArticleElection Day Update
Anna Sale, It's A Free Country political reporter, offers Election Day analysis and updates on early and email voting logistics in New Jersey's storm-damaged precincts.
View ArticleElection Day Call-In: Voting After Sandy, and Voting in the Swing States
It's Election Day! We talk to reporters, look at the important story lines, and more importantly take your calls. With:WNYC's Richard Hake and New Jersey Public Radio's David Furst with the latest news...
View ArticleBoiling Down the Past Four Years
We're finally here! The Takeaway has spent countless hours covering this campaign and election, and as we hunker down for a long week of coverage, we wanted to bring you a look back at the last four...
View ArticleNY Sen. Gillibrand Wins Election for 1st Full Term
Democratic U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has won election to her first full term representing New York, fending off a challenge from Republican Wendy Long.Gillibrand was in the unusual position of...
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President Obama Wins Second Term
Barack Obama has won re-election to a second term as president, beating back a fierce challenge from Republican Mitt Romney. Obama prevailed despite a weak economy and high unemployment. And, in...
View ArticleReacting to Election Results
The results are in with significant victories for Obama, Senate Democrats, marijuana legalization advocates, and gay marriage supporters, but what’s next for the country? The Takeaway's panel of...
View ArticleOpinion: In Obama and Senate Wins, 2012 is Year of the Woman
There were many important results on election night and I was with a huge group of voters in Des Moines, Iowa as we covered the returns live. I talked to dozens of Iowa voters and can report some of...
View ArticleOpinion: Whatever the Right Says, Obama Has a Huge Mandate
So the Empire State Building is a beautiful shade of blue, and the concise but complete message that our reelected president issued on Twitter, "Four more years" — along with a typically heart-melting...
View ArticleOpinion: Obama's Winning Coalition Looks a Lot Like America's Future
The victory of Barack Obama four years ago signaled to many the rise of a new America, symbolized by the election of our first black president. The president's reelection last night confirmed that a...
View ArticleDavid Frum on Yesterday's Election
This election will be examined for years to come by strategists and historians. While an incumbent president can usually rely on running on a successful record and the presidency itself, some say that...
View ArticleExtended News from WNYC and NJPR
WNYC's Richard Hake and NJPR's David Furst provide extended news coverage of the election results and the latest on recovery efforts following Hurricane Sandy with WNYC's Bob Hennelly. Plus, WNYC...
View ArticleJohn Cassidy on the Economy and Election
John Cassidy, staff writer for The New Yorker, talks about the election results. He's the author of the blog Rational Irrationality at newyorker.com.
View ArticleObama Wins a Second Term
President Obama secured a second term last night after an emotional and hard-fought campaign that enabled him to sweep nearly all of the swing states, including Virginia and Ohio. Obama thanked Romney...
View ArticleFlorida Presidential Outcome Remains Undecided
The only thing sure about Florida politics is that it's rarely a sure thing. By 8 a.m. this morning, Florida was still too close to call. The closeness of the presidential race in Florida is...
View ArticleThe Identity of the Republican Party
The Republicans lost two Senate races, those in Missouri and Indiana, that they probably should have won. What does this say about the tactics, strategy, and identity of the Republican Party? Julian...
View ArticleThe President's Next Four Years
Todd Zwillich, our Washington correspondent, was in the heart of the action last night at the Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago. The last time Renee Amore and Hermene Hartman spoke, Renee, who is...
View ArticleThe Looming Crisis of the Fiscal Cliff
The markets are performing their own cliff act today reacting to the political results. But with the election behind us, squarely in front of the global economy is the question of whether the U.S....
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Analysis: Did Cars Save President Obama?
There's been a ton of talk since last night about how much the relatively low unemployment rate in Ohio and the descending rates in Michigan and Wisconsin helped President Obama with his so-called...
View ArticleObama Time Capsule 2016
On the day after the election in 2008, we asked you to submit your predictions about life in 2012 to our online Obama time capsule. Now, we'll do it again. Make your prediction: What will Obama...
View ArticleAfter the Election Comes the Fiscal Cliff
With the presidential campaign season coming to an end, the media is desperately looking for something else to endlessly obsess over. Luckily, we'll have to look no further than the so-called “fiscal...
View ArticleThe World Has Their Say About the 2012 Election
In 2008, the election of Barack Obama was a historic moment not only in the United States, but around the world. This became apparent when, less than a year into his presidency, President Obama was...
View ArticleAfter the Election: Making Voting Easier
Larry Norden, Deputy Director of the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, discusses obstacles to ballot access and what can be done to make voting less of a chore.
View ArticleAfter the Election: What Did Money Buy?
Editorial director of the Sunlight Reporting Group, Bill Allison, reviews the effect of outside and dark money on this election, and what it tell us about Citizens United's impact on democracy.
View ArticleGabfest Radio: The "2016 Starts Now!" Edition
On this week’s episode of Gabfest Radio from Slate and WNYC, Political Gabfest panelists Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss President Obama’s election to a second term, some of the...
View ArticleOpinion: Chill Out, GOP - And Don't Abandon Your Principles
After each presidential election, politically active Americans hunker down to write out their opinion on what, exactly, happened. This election has sparked this genre to an extent I've never seen...
View ArticleEconomics of Legalized Pot
Mark Kleiman, professor of public policy at UCLA and co-author of Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know, discusses the economic impact of legalizing recreational marijuana use in...
View ArticleOpinion: For the GOP to Move Forward, We've Got to Ditch Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan. That’s all we Republicans talk about: Ronald Reagan.That was Mitt Romney’s problem – well, really the whole Republican Party’s problem – last Tuesday: here...
View ArticleOpinion: The 5 Mistakes that Cost Romney the Election
We know that Barack Obama won the 2012 election by a convincing margin of electoral votes and a healthy popular vote. But we should also acknowledge that Mitt Romney, whose Secret Service name was...
View ArticleCity Board of Elections Still Faces Mountain of Affidavits
More than a week after the general election, officials are still struggling to figure out how to count an avalanche of affidavit ballots. The pile is bigger than in past elections because of New York...
View ArticleOpinion: The White Male Era is Over, and I Won't Miss it
As Bill O'Reilly observed on Fox news and Stephen Colbert hilariously amplified, this election may have witnessed the passing of the hegemony of the White Male. O'Reilly may say it with concern....
View ArticlePuerto Rican Election Results
Yarimar Bonilla, political anthropologist and a professor in the departments of both anthropology and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, analyzes the election results in Puerto Rico,...
View ArticleElection 2012's Legacy on the English Language
Geoffrey Nunberg, professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information, language commentator for NPR's Fresh Air and author of Ascent of the A-Word, looks back on what terms, phrases or sayings from the...
View ArticleOpinion: The Ames Straw Poll is Woodstock for Politicos - Don't Kill it!
This week, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, a Republican, said that it's time to kill off his party's Ames Straw Poll. Held every four years in the summer before the Iowa caucuses, the poll is both a...
View ArticleExplainer: How the GOP is Losing the Middle Ground
As the votes from the 2012 election have trickled in, the size of President Obama’s victory has grown – it’s now more than 4 million votes. That count should signify two things to Republicans who...
View ArticleCity’s Election Performance Comes Under Scrutiny
Almost one month after an election day fraught with long lines, error, and confusion, the City Council began working to improve voting conditions in the Big Apple. The City Board of Elections'...
View ArticleThe Reselling of President Obama
Richard Wolffe talks about the marketers, message-shapers, and ad-makers behind President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. In The Message: The Reselling of President Obama, he describes the...
View ArticleGuest Picks: Richard Wolffe
MSNBC.com editor Richard Wolffe was on the Leonard Lopate Show recently to talk about what happened behind the scenes of Pres. Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. He also told us about his love of...
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