During a contentious campaign cycle — like the one we are in now in West Virginia — there are an overwhelming number of advertisements, campaign appearances, news reports and punditry. Anyone paying the slightest bit of attention knows there is an election. But how many West Virginians ...
by Carl P. Leubsdorf Six months to go! And the most surprising thing about the 2024 presidential campaign has been its lack of surprises. But that won’t necessarily last. Joe Biden and Donald Trump both clinched their party’s nominations with ease, ensuring the first ...
According to West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner, voting for the May 14 Primary Election officially started Friday. Qualified voters who have applied for an absentee-by-mail ballot may have started seeing those arrive at the address provided on the application as early as ...
Donald Trump’s own former vice president, Mike Pence, says there’s no way he could endorse him. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, who endorsed Trump’s re-election bid weeks ago, suggests Pence doesn’t have it right. “I think that West Virginians, amazingly in large, large numbers ...
by Jerald McNair Two years ago, America saw its youngest voters turn out for the midterm elections at rates not seen since 2018, when there was a historic high. Nearly 25% of Gen Z voters went to the polls in 2022, according to data from the Center for Information and Research on ...
by Jackie Calmes Donald Trump famously benefited from billions in free media in his 2016 campaign — way too much, as some in the business later conceded. Back then he was a ratings monster; cable TV networks covered his rallies start to finish as millions of Americans tuned in out of ...