2000s
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United States Presidential Election of 2000
The election came down to Florida, decided officially by 537 votes out of six million, with Gore holding a 543,000-vote national p...
United States Presidential Election of 2004
Wartime incumbency after 9/11 and Iraq dominated as Bush defeated John Kerry, a Vietnam veteran wounded over his war record by Swi...
United States Presidential Election of 2008
Amid the September financial collapse, Barack Obama's organization and message of change defeated John McCain, whose campaign susp...
United States Presidential Election of 2012
The first post-Citizens United billion-dollar election saw Obama defeat Mitt Romney 332 to 206 with 51.1 percent, the first presid...
United States Presidential Election of 2016
Against every expectation, Donald Trump flipped the industrial midwest on trade and immigration themes, winning 304 to 227 after s...
United States Presidential Election of 2020
Held under Covid with mass mail voting, the highest turnout since 1900, 66.6 percent, produced Joe Biden's 306 to 232 win and 81.3...
United States Presidential Election of 2024
Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, who entered after Biden's July withdrawal, 312 to 226 with 49.8 percent, the f...
United States Midterm Elections of 2018
Driven by opposition to Trump and energized by record numbers of women candidates, the highest midterm turnout in over a century, ...
United States Midterm Elections of 2006
Rising discontent over the Iraq War, the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, and a series of congressional scandals turned the ...
United States Midterm Elections of 2010
Two years after Barack Obama's victory, high unemployment, the bank and auto bailouts, and opposition to the Affordable Care Act f...