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List of elections in the United States
Overview of U.S. elections by type and schedule: presidential races every four years (next November 7, 2028), congressional midterms November 3, 2026, primaries, special elections, and decentralized state-local administration.
List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives
Special elections to the U.S. House fill mid-Congress vacancies from death, resignation, or other causes; constitutionally required, state-timed, sometimes under the 49-day extraordinary-circumstances law.
List of United States presidential election results by state
State-by-state record of U.S. presidential election results: certified popular votes and Electoral College allocations per state, winner-take-all except Maine and Nebraska's district method, official 2024 result Trump 312, Harris 226 of 538.
List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin
Popular vote margins of US presidential elections, 1824–2024, from the American Presidency Project: winner's vote share minus principal opponent's share, with largest (LBJ 1964, 22.6 points) and narrowest (Garfield 1880, 0.1) margins and four popular-vote/Electoral College splits.
List of United States senators from Georgia
List of United States senators from Georgia: the two Senate seats (Class 2 and Class 3) since 1789, first held by William Few and James Gunn, now held by Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, seated January 20, 2021 after runoff elections.
List of United States senators from New York
The list of United States senators from New York covers the state's two senators since 1789, from Rufus King and Philip Schuyler to Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.
List of United States senators from Pennsylvania
List of United States senators from Pennsylvania: the state's two U.S. Senate seats, Class 1 and Class 3, from first senators Robert Morris and William Maclay (1788) to current senators John Fetterman and David McCormick.
Lord Buckethead
Lord Buckethead is a satirical British novelty candidate, a bucket-helmeted "intergalactic space lord" from the 1984 film Hyperspace (Gremloids), who has stood against Thatcher (1987), Major (1992), and May (2017), later spawning Count Binface after a copyright dispute.
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five-member elected governing body of Los Angeles County, California, created in 1852, with supervisors elected by district to three four-year terms.
Make America Great Again
Make America Great Again, or MAGA, is a campaign slogan used by Donald Trump in his successful 2016 presidential campaign and later the name of his political movement.
Maria Butina
Maria (Mariia) Butina, Russian gun-rights activist and founder of Right to Bear Arms, convicted in the U.S. of conspiring as an unregistered Kremlin agent under Alexander Torshin, infiltrating the NRA; 18-month sentence, 2019 deportation.
Midterm election
US midterm election: congressional election halfway through a president's term, all 435 House seats and one-third of Senate seats contested; president's party loses House seats in 20 of 22 midterms since 1938, averaging 27 seats lost.
Mitt Romney dog incident
The Mitt Romney dog incident, also called the Seamus story, describes the 1983 trip in which Romney drove 12 hours from Boston to Ontario with his Irish setter in a roof-mounted carrier, reported by the Boston Globe in 2007 and revived through the 2012 campaign and 2024 comparisons with Kristi Noem.
Mueller report
The Mueller report is the March 22, 2019 two-volume Special Counsel report by Robert S. Mueller III on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and Trump obstruction, finding interference but no conspiracy charge and no exoneration.
Murder of Seth Rich
Murder of Seth Rich: unsolved July 10, 2016 shooting of 27-year-old DNC staffer Seth Rich in Washington, D.C., deemed a likely botched robbery by police; became the subject of a baseless WikiLeaks-source conspiracy theory amplified by Fox News, which retracted, was sued, and settled.
National Republican Congressional Committee
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), founded in 1866, is a political committee that supports Republican House campaigns with contributions, research, and voter turnout programs.
Nationwide opinion polling for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
Nationwide opinion polling for the 2020 Democratic primaries tracked Biden, Sanders, Warren, and others across a record field. Pew, Quinnipiac, Marist, and aggregator data showed Biden leading early, Sanders surging in February, and AAPOR finding winner calls mostly right but margins off in South Carolina and Super Tuesday states.
Nationwide opinion polling for the 2024 United States presidential election
Nationwide opinion polling for the 2024 US presidential election, also called Biden-Trump then Harris-Trump polling, tracked a near-tied race; averages showed a narrow Democratic lead that underestimated Donald Trump's win.
October surprise
October surprise: a late-breaking news event or crisis in the final weeks of a US election campaign, coined by William Casey during Reagan's 1980 race; famous cases include 1880, 1968, 2000, 2016.
OK boomer
"OK boomer", also written "Okay boomer", is viral internet slang used jokingly to dismiss out-of-touch attitudes tied to the Baby Boomer generation, which spread widely in 2019.
Oscar Underwood
Oscar Wilder Underwood was a Democratic politician from Alabama who led Democrats in both houses of Congress, wrote the Underwood Tariff Act of 1913, and ran for president in 1912 and 1924.
Paula Jean Swearengin
Paula Jean Swearengin, West Virginia progressive activist and coal miner's daughter, ran for U.S. Senate against Joe Manchin in 2018 and won the 2020 Democratic primary before losing to Shelley Moore Capito.
Pennsylvania's congressional delegations
Pennsylvania's congressional delegations: the state's U.S. House members and two senators under each census apportionment. 17 districts after 2020 (18 under the 2011 act); 13-5 Republican 2012-2016, 9-8 Democratic after 2018, 10-7 Republican after 2024.
Pizzagate conspiracy theory
Pizzagate was a debunked 2016 conspiracy theory claiming Democrats ran a child sex ring in the basement of Comet Ping Pong, a Washington D.C. pizzeria; it arose from leaked Podesta emails, led to an armed shooting, and seeded QAnon.
Podesta emails
The Podesta emails were messages hacked from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's Gmail in March 2016 by Russia's GRU units 26165 and 74455 via spear-phishing, and published by WikiLeaks starting October 7, 2016, an hour after the Access Hollywood tape; the Mueller investigation found no Trump campaign coordination.
Presidential transition of Barack Obama
The 2008-2009 presidential transition of Barack Obama: handover from George W. Bush after the November 4, 2008 election, led by Podesta, Jarrett, and Rouse, with pre-election Bush cooperation and 75% Gallup approval.
Presidential transition of Joe Biden
Presidential transition of Joe Biden: the 2020-21 transfer of power from Trump to Biden. Co-chaired by Ted Kaufman and Jeff Zients; delayed 20 days by GSA ascertainment; led to the 2022 Presidential Transition Improvement Act.
Rachel Freier
Rachel "Ruchie" Freier, Brooklyn-born Hasidic lawyer and judge; first Hasidic woman elected to US public office (NYC Civil Court, 2016, 40.7% primary); founder of Ezras Nashim all-female ambulance corps and B'Derech; elected NY Supreme Court justice 2023.
Red states and blue states
Red states and blue states are informal U.S. labels for Republican- and Democratic-leaning states, fixed by the 2000 election after decades of shifting network map colors; purple states are competitive, and dichotomized maps overstate polarization.
Republican National Convention
The Republican National Convention (RNC) is the quadrennial nominating convention of the United States Republican Party, where delegates nominate presidential and vice presidential candidates and adopt the platform.