#1908 Presidential Election

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Mr. Taft Seems a Little Careless Of Miss Nomination

November 3, 1907

Taft pays careful attention to Europa in the garden; Miss Republican Nomination sits alone.

The caption reads "Miss Republican Nomination (waiting at home for a little attention) - 'Well, now I like that.'"

Taft had been on a tour of Asia, and was returning to the United States through Europe. He was considered one of the frontrunners for the Republican nomination, but had yet to begin campaigning.

See Also: William Howard Taft

From Hennepin County Library

Original available at: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/Bart/id/5336/rec/1760

[deadpresidents]

I dare you to find a better Presidential campaign poster than this one for William Howard Taft. Good luck.

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Events 11.22

498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore. 845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon. 1307 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets. 1574 – Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile. 1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island. 1718 – Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") off the coast of North Carolina. The casualties on both sides include Maynard's first officer Mister Hyde and Teach himself. 1837 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution. 1855 – In Birmingham, England, Albert, Prince Consort lays the foundation stone of the Birmingham and Midland Institute. 1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched. 1873 – The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives. 1908 – The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet. 1921 – During The Troubles in Northern Ireland (1920–1922), 22 Irish Nationalists are killed in Belfast in one day. 1935 – The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila. 1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa. 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded. 1943 – World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan. 1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after it was first announced by the Free French government. 1955 – The Soviet Union launches RDS-37, a 1.6 megaton two stage hydrogen bomb designed by Andrei Sakharov. The bomb was dropped over Semipalatinsk. 1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. U.S Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States afterwards. 1963 – Five Indian generals are killed in a helicopter crash, due to collision with two parallel lines of telegraph cables. 1967 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement. 1971 – In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains. 1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco. 1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership. 2003 – Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land. 2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections. 2022 – A shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia leaves 7 workers dead, including the shooter, and 4 others injured.

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1975-Sam Giancana

Salvatore Mooney Giancana[1] (/dʒiɑːnˈkɑːnə/; born Gilormo Giangana;[nb 1]Italian: [dʒiˈlɔrmo dʒaŋˈɡaːna ]; May 24, 1908[nb 2] – June 19, 1975) was an American mobster who was boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957 to 1966.

According to some sources, Giancana and the Mafia were involved in John F. Kennedy's victory in the 1960 presidential election. During the 1960s, he was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a plot to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Conspiracy theorists consider Giancana along with Mafia leaders Santo Trafficante Jr. and Carlos Marcello to be associated with the assassination of Kennedy. In 1965, Giancana was convicted of contempt of court, serving one year in prison. 

After his release from prison, Giancana fled to Cuernavaca, Mexico. In 1974, he was deported to the United States, returning to Chicago. Giancana was murdered on June 19, 1975, in Oak Park, Illinois, shortly before he was scheduled to appear before the Church Committee.

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hey im bored but like here's why Trump's point of him having the most votes than any sitting president means fucking nothing:

So, I took the example of the 1904 Presidential Election, which Theodore Roosevelt--26th President--won by a landslide at 7.6m votes against Parker, with 5.083m votes. Now, this is 100+ years ago. The nation was much smaller and we had far less reach with the election; no TV, no phones, no laptops, and not everyone read the newspaper. Let's not forget the 2016/2020 election was much more popular.

TR on the right, Parker on the left.

So, 7.6m votes was considered a landslide. Let's look at 2016/2020.

2016 was Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton, a man vs. a woman, and that definitely meant that the election would be publicized even more. It's also a Trump-Election, so it's bound to be. Trump got 62.9m votes compared to Hillary's 65.8m votes, yet got more Electoral Votes along with carrying more states, which ultimately meant more.

Trump on the right, Clinton on the left.

So Trump got less popular votes but more electoral votes and won the election.

Let's look at 2020.

2020 is the most recent and was Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden, our current sitting president. A lot of people say it was rigged, and really, I'm not touching on that now, but it was very much media-based and influenced by a lot of people. Biden got 81.2m votes and Trump got 74.2m votes, along with less Electoral Collage votes than Biden.

Biden on the right, Trump on the left.

So, Trump's point: He got more of the popular vote than any other sitting president. Okay. Fine. That doesn't matter at all. TR was sitting president as well during the 1904 election (for his, technical, first term that he didn't just get pushed into).

But the main reason is because America then was smaller than America now, and like I said, the election was not as forced. Not one bit. Sure, newspapers, and people talking about it, but that was... about it besides telegrams. Yes, Trump got nearly 10x the votes TR had, but America has grown significantly. We can't use that point of more popular votes because it means nothing--and let's also not forget TR got more Electoral Collage votes, at 336 to Trump's 232. And more states, 32 to Trump's 25 (+ ME-02).

So in all, yes, Trump got more popular votes, but the country has A. changed and B. gotten much more publicized due to technological advancements. He also got less Electoral Votes + carried less states.

The Election of 1908 (or even 1800 but that's too old) can also be used, as it's a 3-way Election, but it also isn't exactly useful. 2-party Elections can't entirely be compared to 2-party Elections. I could also try to reason with the Election of 1828, but that's still too early.

So like TL;DR Trump's point means nothing because of how much the nation has changed so much lmao

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US Presidential Elections

1900: 14.0 million votes cast out of 19.1 million eligible voters, from a total population of 76.2 million Americans

1904: 13.5 million (-0.5 million) out of 20.7 million (+1.6 million), from 82.2 million (+6.0 million)

1908: 14.9m (+1.4m) out of 22.7m (+2.0m), from 88.7m (+6.5m)

1912: 15.0m (+0.1m) out of 25.6m (+2.9m), from 95.3m (+6.6)

1916: 18.5m (+3.5m) out of 30.1m (+4.5m), from 102.0m (+6.7m)

1920: 26.7m (+8.2m) out of 54.3m (+24.2m), from 106.5m (+4.5m)

1924: 29.1m (+2.4m) out of 59.5m (+5.2m), from 114.1m (+7.6m)

1928: 36.8m (+7.7m) out of 64.7m (+5.2m), from 120.5m (+6.4m)

1932: 39.7m (+2.9m) out of 75.5m (+10.8m), from 124.8m (+4.3m)

1936: 45.6m (+5.9m) out of 74.9m (-0.6m), from 128.1m (+3.3m)

1940: 49.9m (+4.3m) out of 79.9m (+5.0m), from 132.1m (+4.0m)

1944: 48.0m (-1.9m) out of 85.8m (+5.9m), from 138.4m (+6.3m)

1948: 48.8m (+0.8m) out of 92.0m (+6.2m), from 146.6m (+8.2m)

1952: 61.8m (+13.0m) out of 97.6m (+5.6m), from 157.6m (+11.0m)

1956: 62.0m (+0.2m) out of 102.3m (+4.7m), from 168.9m (+11.3m)

1960: 68.8m (+6.8m) out of 109.6m (+7.6m), from 180.7m (+11.8m)

1964: 70.6m (+1.8m) out of 114.0m (+4.4m), from 191.9m (+11.2m)

1968: 73.2m (+2.6m) out of 120.3m (+6.3m), from 200.7m (+8.8m)

1972: 77.8m (+4.6m) out of 140.8m (+20.5m), from 209.9m (+9.2m)

1976: 81.5m (+3.7m) out of 152.4m (+11.6m), from 218.0m (+8.1m)

1980: 86.6m (+5.1m) out of 164.6m (+12.2m), from 226.5m (+8.5m)

1984: 92.6m (+6.0m) out of 173.7m (+9.1m), from 235.8m (+9.3m)

1988: 91.6m (-1.0m) out of 182.5m (+8.8m), from 244.5m (+8.7m)

1992: 104.4m (+12.8m) out of 189.1m (+6.6m), from 256.9m (+12.4m)

1996: 96.3m (-8.1m) out of 196.5m (+7.4m), from 269.7m (+12.8m)

2000: 105.4m (+9.1m) out of 205.8m (+9.3m), from 282.2m (+12.5m)

2004: 122.3m (+16.9m) out of 215.7m (+9.9m), from 292.8m (+10.6m)

2008: 131.3m (+9.0m) out of 225.6m (+9.9m), from 304.1m (+11.3m)

2012: 129.0m (-2.3m) out of 235.1m (+9.5m), from 313.9m (+9.8m)

2016: 136.6m (+7.6m) out of 245.3m (+10.2m), from 323.1m (+9.2m)

2020: 158.3m (+21.7m) out of 237.4m (-7.9m), from 331.0m (+7.9m)

The 2020 eligibility figure is distorted because prior to this, eligibility was calculated as the percentage of Americans over the age of 18, regardless of eligibility due to citizenship or imprisonment. The 2020 figure only accounts for legally eligible voters, making it more accurate, but throwing off the count for all previous years, which is a pain in the ass for data analysis.

2024 will see far fewer votes cast than in 2020 because the stakes were high, driving up turnout, and a bunch of Republican states are changing their laws to disenfranchise minorities and make it harder for people to vote. Turnout will be very low in 2024, probably closer to 50%; if we assume eligibility is roughly around 75% of Americans are eligible to vote, so if we assume a population around 340 million, that gives us an eligibility of ~255 million. The lowest voter turnout in recent history was 1996, where only 49% of eligible voters actually voted; if we use this as a lower bound, we can assume that a minimum of ~125 million people will vote n 2024.

125 million is the absolute worst case scenario; that's lower than any election since 2004, so let's assume turnout will be closer to 55%. That gives us ~140 million votes, which is a more reasonable floor.

Democrats will absolutely lose the House in 2022, as Republican states have gained 6 seats through the census, and even the states that didn't gain seats will just redraw their maps to get rid of as many Democratic districts as possible; if we don't pass the For The People Act, Democrats will be in the minority until 2032 at the earliest, during the NEXT redistricting cycle, regardless of who wins the national popular vote. The Senate is more lenient; it depends on how effective he is in the next year. Democrats could gain 2 seats (Pennsylvania is their best bet, with Wisconsin possible but unlikely), or they could lose 3 (Georgia is as good as gone, Arizona depends on who the Republicans run, and New Hampshire is teetering on a knife's edge), it's a crapshoot.

In a fantasy world, Democrats could also pick up Ohio, North Carolina, and maybe Iowa and Florida; wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which fills up first.

Republicans are more likely to take Colorado and Nevada than the Democrats are to take Iowa and Florida.

As for president, in 2024 I can't see Biden maintaining anything close to the support he had in 2020. The stakes are much lower, so there's no way he'll get 81 million votes again; he'll be lucky to get 70m. Democrats have won the popular vote 7 of the last 8 elections, including the last four in a row, and incumbents tend to have an advantage (Trump was historically unpopular), so I don't doubt he'll get more votes than his opponent, DeSantis or Scott or Cruz or whoever, but I would bet you all the money I have in my wallet that he loses the electoral college because of Republican fuckery in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

They will shorten early voting, close poll places, have fewer drop boxes and shorter hours, less transparency, stricter signature laws that will allow partisan observers to throw out as many votes as they want because people aren't machines and their signatures vary. Black people will be disenfranchised, and the Republicans will pack the courts to ensure that they get favorable rulings after losing case after case after case in 2020. Pennsylvania is changing the law so that judges are elected in partisan districts instead of statewide, giving the rural minority more power. It's not fair, but that's the point.

We are on the edge of civil war; if Republicans keep changing the rules so they can govern from the minority, something is gonna give in the next decade or two.

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Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919).

26th president of the United States.

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He was an American statesman, politician, conservationist, naturalist, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt emerged as a leader of the Republican Party and became a driving force for the anti-trust policy while supporting Progressive Era policies in the United States. His face is depicted on Mount Rushmore and he is generally ranked in polls of historians and political scientists as one of the five best presidents.

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Roosevelt was a sickly child with debilitating asthma, but he overcame his health problems by embracing a strenuous lifestyle. He integrated his exuberant personality, vast range of interests, and world-famous achievements into a "cowboy" persona defined by robust masculinity. He was home-schooled, and he began a lifelong naturalist avocation before attending Harvard College. His book The Naval War of 1812 (1882) established his reputation as a learned historian and as a popular writer.

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Upon entering politics, he became the leader of the reform faction of Republicans in New York's state legislature. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President William McKinley, but he resigned from that post to lead the Rough Riders during the Spanish–American War, returning a war hero. He was elected governor of New York in 1898. The New York state party leadership then convinced McKinley to accept Roosevelt as his running mate in the 1900 election. Roosevelt campaigned vigorously, and the McKinley–Roosevelt ticket won a landslide victory based on a platform of peace, prosperity, and conservation.

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Roosevelt took office as vice president in March 1901 and assumed the presidency at age 42 after McKinley was assassinated the following September. Roosevelt was a leader of the progressive movement, and he championed his "Square Deal" domestic policies, promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs. He made conservation a top priority and established many new national parks, forests, and monuments intended to preserve the nation's natural resources. In foreign policy, he focused on Central America where he began construction of the Panama Canal. He also expanded the Navy. His successful efforts to broker the end of the Russo-Japanese War won him the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize. Roosevelt was elected to a full term in 1904 and continued to promote progressive policies.

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He groomed his close friend William Howard Taft, and Taft won the 1908 presidential election to succeed him.

Roosevelt grew frustrated with Taft's conservatism and belatedly tried to win the 1912 Republican nomination for president. He failed, walked out, and founded the so-called "Bull Moose" Party. He ran in the 1912 election and the split allowed the Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson to win the election. During World War I, he criticized Wilson for keeping the country out of the war with Germany, and his offer to lead volunteers to France was rejected.

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He married Alice Lee in 1880 but she died in 1884. He then married Edith Carow in 1886. He was the father of six children.

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He died in his sleep after a blood clot had detached from a vein and traveled to his lungs.

[popolitiko]

Red states and blue states  - Purple states 

Since the 2000 United States presidential election, red states and blue states have referred to states of the United States whose voters predominantly choose either the Republican Party (red) or Democratic Party (blue) presidential and senatorial candidates. Since then, the use of the term has been expanded to differentiate between states being perceived as liberal and those perceived as conservative.[not verified in body] Examining patterns within states reveals that the reversal of the two parties' geographic bases has happened at the state level, but it is more complicated locally, with urban/rural divides associated with many of the largest changes.

All states contain both liberal and conservative voters (i.e. they are "purple") and only appear blue/red on the electoral map because of the winner-take-all system used by most states in the Electoral College. However, the perception of some states as "blue" and some as "red" was reinforced by a degree of partisan stability from election to election—from the 2000 election to the 2004 election, only three states changed "color" and as of 2020, fully 35 out of 50 states have voted for the same party in every presidential election since the red/blue terminology was popularized in 2000.

Origins of the color scheme

The colors red and blue also feature on the United States flag. Traditional political mapmakers, at least throughout the 20th century, had used blue to represent the modern-day Republicans, as well as the earlier Federalist Party. This may have been a holdover from the Civil War, during which the predominantly Republican north was considered "blue." However, at that time, a maker of widely-sold maps accompanied them with blue pencils in order to mark Confederate force movements, while red was for the union.

Later, in the 1888 presidential election, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison used maps that coded blue for the Republicans, the color perceived to represent the Union and "Lincoln's Party", and red for the Democrats. The parties themselves had no official colors, with candidates variously using either or both of the national color palette of red and blue (white being unsuitable for printed materials).

There was one historical use, associated with boss rule, of blue for Democrats and red for Republicans: in the late 19th century and early 20th century, Texas county election boards used color-coding to help Spanish-speaking and illiterate voters identify the parties;[8] however, this system was not applied consistently in Texas and was not replicated in any other state. In 1908, The New York Times printed a special color map, using blue for Democrats and yellow for Republicans, to detail Theodore Roosevelt's 1904 electoral victory.[9] That same year, a color supplement included with a July issue of the Washington Post used red for Republican-leaning states, blue for Democratic-leaning states, yellow for "doubtful" states and green for territories that had no presidential vote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states

[1900scartoons]

First Steps

August 18, 1907

Baby Taft waddles away from President Roosevelt toward the Presidential Chair.

Taft was one of several potential candidates for president in 1908, but it was becoming clear that he was Roosevelt's favorite.

See Also: William Howard Taft; Theodore Roosevelt

From Hennepin County Library

Original available at: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/Bart/id/5538/rec/222

[deadpresidents]

I think Bryan was actually a Democratic nominee, not Republican.

Yes, thanks for catching that so I could fix it! William Jennings Bryan was indeed the Democratic Presidential nominee in 1896, 1900, and 1908 and lost all three races (twice to William McKinley and the third time to William Howard Taft). Bryan's brother, Charles W. Bryan -- who was Governor of Nebraska at the time -- was also nominated by the Democrats as their 1924 Vice Presidential nominee on the ticket with John W. Davis. (He also lost.)

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 8.27 (after 1900)

1908 – The Qing dynasty promulgates the Qinding Xianfa Dagang, the first constitutional document in the history of China, transforming the Qing empire into a constitutional monarchy. 1914 – World War I: Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat. 1914 – World War I: Siege of Tsingtao: A Japanese fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Sadakichi Kato imposes a blockade along the whole coastline of German Tsingtao, initiating the Siege of Tsingtao. 1915 – Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona, by Rev. Louis M. Lesches. 1916 – World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations. 1918 – Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil. 1922 – Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Kingdom of Greece. 1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking: "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?" 1928 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it. 1933 – The first Afrikaans Bible is introduced during a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein. 1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft. 1942 – First day of the Sarny Massacre, perpetrated by Germans and Ukrainians. 1943 – World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. 1943 – World War II: Aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe razes to the ground the village of Vorizia in Crete. 1955 – The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published in Great Britain. 1956 – The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale. 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA. 1963 – An explosion at the Cane Creek potash mine near Moab, Utah kills 18 miners. 1964 – South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh enters into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khánh. 1971 – An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations. 1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group. 1980 – 1980 South Korean presidential election: After successfully staging the Coup d'état of May Seventeenth, General Chun Doo-hwan, running unopposed, has the National Conference for Unification elect him President of the Fourth Republic of Korea. 1980 – A massive bomb planted by extortionist John Birges explodes at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, after a failed disarming attempt by the FBI. Although the hotel is damaged, no one is injured. 1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. 1991 – Moldova declares independence from the USSR. 2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant. 2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

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Voter turnout 2020: Early voting tops 100 million ballots cast

WASHINGTON — At least 101.2 million people, a record, voted early in the presidential election between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden as voters head to the polls on Election Day.

Figures are according to the U.S. Elections Project, which tracks early voting and mail-in ballots returns in states. The tally crossed the century-mark Tuesday morning.

It includes around 36 million in-person early votes and more than 65 million ballots cast by mail. The number will continue to grow as more votes cast before Tuesday are publicized by states.

The massive early voting turnout puts the U.S. on track to likely surpass 150 million voters overall for the election, which would mark the highest turnout of eligible voters by percentage in a presidential election since 1908. That year Republican William Howard Taft defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan with 65.7% of the voting-eligible population participating.

In 2016, 47 million people – the previous early voting record – voted before Election Day in the presidential election between Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton. Overall, 138.8 million people, 60.1% of the voter-eligible population, voted in 2016.

This year's 100 million early voters is about 43% of the nation's estimated 233.7 million eligible voters as of 2018. Seventy-three percent of the entire 2016 turnout has already voted before Election Day numbers are tallied. For the first time in modern U.S history, more votes this year are expected to have voted early than on Election Day.

More:Election live updates: Biden campaign says 'no scenario' for Trump to win race on election night

More:'Unprecedented': Voter turnout in election could reach highest rate in more than a century

Most states expanded mail-voting opportunities amid the coronavirus pandemic and several others extended in-person early voting periods from four years ago.

States with the highest turnout compared to its overall turnout in the 2016 election are: Texas, 108%; Montana, 99%; Washington, 98%; Nevada, 97%; Oregon, 96%; North Carolina, 95%; and Georgia, 94%.

Democrats have dominated mail-voting in the 19 states that detail party registration data, accounting for 48% of ballots, compared to 27% for Republicans. Voters with no party affiliation accounted for 24% of returned mail ballots.

More:Democrats led early voting after Trump's attacks on mail-in ballots. Now Trump needs to dominate Election Day

Republicans topped Democrats in in-person early voting, 42% to 36%, across 10 states that detail in-person party registration data. Voters with no party affiliation accounted for 22% of Americans who voted early in-person.

The party breakdown means Biden likely has a lead in ballots cast nationally and in key battleground states heading into Election Day, but polling has shown Trump supporters are expected to outnumber Biden voters at the polls Tuesday.

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Friday, November 20, 2020

Global debt (Financial Times) Global debt rose at an unprecedented pace in the first nine months of the year as governments and companies embarked on a “debt tsunami” in the face of the coronavirus crisis, according to new research. The pace of debt accumulation will leave the global economy struggling to reduce borrowing in the future without “significant adverse implications for economic activity”, the Institute of International Finance warned on Wednesday. The total level of global indebtedness has increased by $15 trillion this year, leaving it on track to exceed $277 trillion in 2020, said the IIF, which represents financial institutions. It expects total debt to reach 365 per cent of global gross domestic product by the end of the year, surging from 320 per cent at the end of 2019.

Biden approaches 80 million votes (AP) President-elect Joe Biden’s winning tally is approaching a record 80 million votes as Democratic bastions continue to count ballots and the 2020 election cracks turnout records. Biden has already set a record for the highest number of votes for a winning presidential candidate, and President Donald Trump has also notched a high-water mark of the most votes for a losing candidate. With more than 155 million votes counted and California and New York still counting, turnout stands at 65% of all eligible voters, the highest since 1908, according to data from The Associated Press and the U.S. Elections Project.

New York City to Close Public Schools Again as Virus Cases Rise (NYT) New York City’s entire public school system will shut on Thursday, signaling that a second wave of the coronavirus has arrived as the city is still struggling to revive from its devastating spring, when it was a global epicenter of the pandemic. The shutdown was prompted by the city’s reaching a 3 percent test positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average, the most conservative threshold of any big school district in the country. Schools in the nation’s largest system, with 1.1 million students and 1,800 schools, have been open for in-person instruction for just under eight weeks. Moving to all-remote instruction will disrupt the education of many of the roughly 300,000 children who have been attending in-person classes and create child care problems for parents who count on their children being at school for at least part of the week.

Mexico, Outraged at Arrest of Ex-Official, Threatened to Toss U.S. Agents (NYT) From the moment U.S. federal agents arrested a former Mexican defense minister last month on drug trafficking charges, the highest levels of the Mexican government were outraged at being kept in the dark about the case, seeing it as an egregious breach of trust between allies. Those emotions reached a peak in recent days, as Mexico City issued an unheard-of warning to its counterparts in Washington: If the United States did not rethink its pursuit of Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, Mexico would consider expelling American federal drug agents from the country, jeopardizing a decades-long partnership that has helped bring several top drug lords to justice, according to three people in the United States who are familiar with the case. That threat appeared to work. On Wednesday, at the request of Attorney General William P. Barr himself, a federal judge in Brooklyn said she would formally dismiss the charges against Mr. Cienfuegos, a former army general. In the past, U.S. authorities worked with their Mexican counterparts in capturing major drug trafficking suspects, who are often arrested in Mexico, by Mexican forces. But in this case the Justice Department quietly indicted Mr. Cienfuegos last year, did not alert Mexican officials, and waited until he visited the United States to take him into custody. It is not clear what led the department to forgo Mexican cooperation, angering an important ally and leading to the embarrassing setback of dropping the case.

The sniper rifles flowing to Mexican cartels show a decade of U.S. failure (Washington Post) North of the border, the .50-caliber sniper rifle is the stuff of YouTube celebrity, shown blasting through engine blocks and concrete walls. Deployed with U.S. troops to foreign wars, it is among the most destructive weapons legally available in the United States. But every week, those rifles are trafficked across the border to Mexico, where increasingly militarized drug cartels now command arsenals that rival the weaponry of the country’s security forces. In many cases, criminals outgun police. After years of failed U.S. and Mexican efforts to curb arms trafficking, groups such as the Jalisco New Generation and Sinaloa cartels are showcasing the military-grade weapons in slick propaganda videos and using them to defeat security forces in battle. In a country with just a single legal gun shop, on a military base in the capital, roughly 2.5 million illicit American guns have poured across the border in the past decade, according to a new Mexican government study. That flood has been a key accelerant in the security crisis now confronting the country. The cartels are using assault rifles to kill record numbers of police officers—464 in the first nine months of 2020 alone—and smaller armed groups are fueling historically high homicide rates. Mexican officials, in rare public criticism, are now venting their frustration at what they say is the U.S. failure to stop the flow of .50-caliber rifles. At a time when the United States is pushing Mexico to target cartels more aggressively, U.S. laws that make .50-calibers and other destructive weapons easy to buy, along with a lack of enforcement at the border, are enabling those groups to expand their influence and activities in the country.

Iota’s devastation comes into focus in storm-weary Nicaragua (AP) The devastation caused by Hurricane Iota became clearer Wednesday as images emerged showing piles of wind-tossed lumber that used to be homes and concrete walls that were pounded into pieces by the second Category 4 storm to blast Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast in two weeks. Nicaragua Vice President and first lady Rosario Murillo on Wednesday raised the nation’s death toll to 16. The victims were spread across the country, swept away by swollen rivers or buried in landslides. Iota arrived Monday evening with winds of 155 mph (250 kph), hitting nearly the same location as Hurricane Eta two weeks earlier. By early Wednesday, Iota had dissipated over El Salvador, but the storm’s torrential rains remained a threat. Parts of neighboring Honduras were still under water from Eta.

UK to bolster defense spending by ‘most since Cold War’ (AP) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has given his backing to what is being touted as the biggest investment program in the country’s armed forces since the end of the Cold War three decades ago. Johnson is set to lay out the details of a four-year financial deal for the Ministry of Defense later Thursday that he said will “transform” the military, pivoting it towards potential future threats. “The international situation is more perilous and more intensely competitive than at any time since the Cold War and Britain must be true to our history and stand alongside our allies,” he said. (Foreign Policy) According to figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the extra expenditure should see the United Kingdom leapfrog NATO allies France and Germany to become the sixth-highest military spender worldwide, one place behind Saudi Arabia.

Thai PM threatens to use all laws against protesters (Reuters) Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha threatened on Thursday to use all laws possible against protesters, as demonstrations escalate for his removal and for reforms to curb the powers of King Maha Vajiralongkorn. The protests since July have become the greatest challenge to Thailand’s establishment in years and have broken a longstanding taboo by criticising the monarchy, which can carry a jail term of up to 15 years. Prayuth’s announcement came a day after thousands of protesters threw paint at the headquarters of the police in what they said was a response to the use of water cannon and teargas that hurt dozens on Tuesday, the most violent day of protests since July. Some protesters also sprayed anti-monarchy graffiti.

Vietnam’s success (Nikkei Asian Review) Vietnam is shaping up as Southeast Asia’s single economic success story in the coronavirus era, maintaining steady positive growth as other economies struggle to recover. Vietnam’s real gross domestic product expanded 2.6% on the year in the third quarter, marking a second straight quarter of growth amid the pandemic. The International Monetary Fund sees the country rising to fourth in nominal GDP in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations this year, passing Singapore and Malaysia and gaining on the Philippines. In contrast to other ASEAN economies, Vietnam has succeeded in keeping the virus under control. Rising exports have also helped to drive growth, as companies relocate production from China.

Australia publishes war crimes report (Foreign Policy) Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has publicly apologized to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani following the publication of a damning report into murders of civilians committed by Australian special forces in Afghanistan. The government-sanctioned report found that 39 Afghans were unlawfully killed in 23 incidents that all meet the criteria of murder. Among other shocking revelations, the report reveals that Special Air Service (SAS) non-commissioned officers “allegedly demanded junior soldiers “blood” themselves by shooting unarmed prisoners, and then planted weapons to cover up these crimes, while falsifying reports about what happened,” according to the Sydney Morning Herald. The SAS 2nd Squadron will be disbanded and up to 19 soldiers could face prosecution.

Ethiopia’s multiple crises: War, COVID-19, even locusts (AP) Ethiopia could hardly bear another emergency, even before a deadly conflict exploded in its northern Tigray region this month. Now, tens of thousands of refugees are fleeing into Sudan, and food and fuel are running desperately low in the sealed-off Tigray region, along with medical supplies and even resources to combat a major locust outbreak. The United Nations warns of a “full-scale humanitarian crisis.” Food can’t get into the Tigray region of some 6 million people because of transport restrictions imposed after the fighting began. Humanitarian officials say long lines have appeared outside bread shops, prices have soared, and banks dispense only small amounts of cash. “At this stage there is simply very little left, even if you have money,” according to the internal assessment by one humanitarian group seen by The Associated Press.

Uganda Police Arrest Opposition Figure, Setting Off Deadly Protests (NYT) The police in Uganda said three people died and 38 were injured in protests that broke out on Wednesday in Uganda’s capital after officers arrested Bobi Wine, a musician and opposition politician seeking the presidency in next year’s election. A police spokesman, Fred Enanga, said Mr. Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, was arrested for violating Covid-19 guidelines that require presidential candidates to meet or address fewer than 200 people. Mr. Wine, who has been arrested numerous times in recent years, has captured the imagination of many Ugandans with his persistent calls for President Yoweri Museveni to retire after 36 years in power.

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Dr Gregory Hough South Africa

She represented South Africa in Hockey at the highest level during the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, turning into the first black lady to play area hockey at this level for South Africa. Last night our Grade 12s gathered in the High Performance Centre for his or her Leavers Dinner. One of the particular moments of this celebration is that those that have decided to affix the OK Club as Life Members had been all carrying their Old Kingswoodian ties. A few weeks in the past, at our Senior School Prizegiving Ceremony, Dr Colleen Vassiliou gave a speech as Head of the College.

Best Life expertise touring on MSC Orchestra to expertise the amazing birds of the Southern Ocean. Congratulations on a profitable unique occasion benefitting tourism, conservation and schooling. A once in a lifetime experience, and lifechanging too. Thank you BirdLife South Africa for making attainable the inconceivable. I was unhappy to overlook out on an exquisite expertise judging by the feedback of those that did take part. Having been on a previous Flock I can imagine the super emotional reward offered to those that sailed this time.

This was a fantastic initiative to address the mouse problem at Marion Island. I really enjoyed the feedback from the members. S nicely organized occasion that attracted International visitors. What a approach to leave a beautiful legacy for future generations.

Travel again with us as we mark the twenty first anniversary of the ‘Viva Vienna Music Tour’ for this week’s #ThrowbackThursday. For this week’s #ThrowbackThursday we return 26 years to our centenary yr celebration in 1994 when an artistic impression of our faculty campus was done to commemorate that yr. This week’s #WellnessWednesday message comes from our Rev Tim Marshall.

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It was an awesome journey with MSC Cruises and am so glad to have had the opportunity to do a bit for conservation and having a new discovered love. Learnt so much & the albatross is my favorite bird! Excited to see what different birding journeys take place. Best voyage ever on a passenger ship to the distant Marion and Prince Edward Islands, not many people experience these prestine breeding islands. Amazing group protecting birdlife and biodiversity.

Some 30 papers had been learn, within the categories Surgery, Medicine, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Public Health, Ophthalmology, and Special Subjects. Congress thought-about two of the papers on public health so important that it was decided 'to ask the lay Press to publish them'. The two papers had been 'Tuberculosis', by Dr J. Barcroft Anderson, and a complete review of 'Hygiene in South Africa', the presidential tackle dr gregory hough south africa of Dr W. Watkins-Pitchford. The Transvaal Biological Society was inaugurated at a gathering held in Pretoria on 9 December 1907, convened by C.W. A constitution was adopted on 13 January 1908 and Theiler elected as president for the first 12 months. The society ultimately amalgamated with the South African Ornithologists' Union in 1916 to type the South African Biological Society.

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I even have been birding for round 25 years, and can say with confidence that the boat journey to Marion Island with Bird Life was one of the best birding experience I even have ever had. It was properly organized and an expertise to shall be very had to beat. Fantastic expertise for birders to experience birds that most would never see and in addition to contribute to an essential conservation action. BirdLife SAYS Flock to Marion was a once in a lifetime experience. Thanks Birdlife SA and MSC for all the hassle which was required to convey this journey about.

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Penny Singleton (born Mariana Dorothy McNulty, September 15, 1908 – November 12, 2003) was an American actress and labor leader. During her 60-year career, Singleton appeared as the comic-strip heroine Blondie Bumstead in a series of 28 motion pictures from 1938 until 1950 and the popular Blondie radio program from 1939 until 1950. Singleton also provided the voice of Jane Jetson in the animated series The Jetsons from 1962–1963.

Behind the scenes, Singleton served two terms as president of the American Guild of Variety Artists, and testified before a Senate subcommittee in 1962 on the union's treatment of women variety workers.

Singleton was born in Philadelphia to Bernard J. "Benny" McNulty and Mary Dorothy McNulty,[3] She began performing professionally as a child, and only completed sixth grade in her schooling.

Singleton sang at a silent movie theater, and toured in vaudeville as part of an act called "The Kiddie Kabaret". She sang and danced with Milton Berle, whom she knew since childhood, and actor Gene Raymond, and appeared on Broadway in Jack Benny's The Great Temptations. She also toured in nightclubs and roadshows of plays and musicals.

Singleton appeared as a nightclub singer in After the Thin Man, credited as Dorothy McNulty. She was cast opposite Arthur Lake (as Dagwood) in the feature film Blondie in 1938, based on the comic strip by Chic Young. They repeated their roles on a radio comedy beginning in 1939 and in guest appearances on other radio shows. As Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead, they proved so popular that a succession of 27 sequels was made from 1938 until 1950, with the radio show ending the same year. Singleton's husband Robert Sparks produced 12 of these sequels. Also in 1950, she had her own program, The Penny Singleton Show, on NBC radio.

Singleton held top billing in Go West, Young Lady (1941), over her male co-star, Glenn Ford. Only two other female stars (Dorothy Page and Jane Frazee) were top-billed singing cowgirls at the time. She provided the voice of Jane Jetson in the 1962–63 animated series, The Jetsons.

Singleton was active in union affairs, as a vocal member of the American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA). She was elected president of the AGVA in 1958–1959, and again in 1969–1970. Her union membership was suspended in 1962, when she was accused of slandering some of the union's officers, and she countersued. She testified on the exploitation of women in variety work, and the union's shortcomings in representing those workers, before a United States Senate subcommittee in 1962. "I charge here and now that the exotic and strip artists have been abandoned and made outcasts by the very union to which they pay dues for representation and protection," she announced to the subcommittee.

Singleton was reinstated as a union member in 1963, after the dispute reached a legal settlement. In 1967, she led a successful month-long strike by the Radio City Rockettes for better working conditions. During her presidency, she led negotiations with Disney, during a variety artists' strike at Disneyland in 1970.

Singleton married Laurence Scroggs Singleton, a dentist, in 1937; they divorced in 1939, with her keeping the "Singleton" surname as part of her stage name the rest of her life. She was married to Robert C. Sparks, a Marine Corps officer and film producer, from 1941 until his death in 1963. Singleton had two daughters, Dorothy and Susan. She was a Roman Catholic and a Democrat who supported Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 presidential election.

For her contributions to both radio and the motion-picture industry, in 1960, Singleton was honored with two stars as she was inducted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star for radio is located at 6811 Hollywood Boulevard, and her film star is at 6547 Hollywood Boulevard.

On November 12, 2003, Singleton died at the age of 95 of respiratory failure, in Sherman Oaks, California.