On Monday, one day before Election Day, I received a call from a reader. She identified herself as a Reform Jew, 46, from Chicago.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sued the registrar of voters in Clark County, Nevada over a polling place in Las Vegas that had been allowed to remain open late last week to accommodate people who were lined up to vote.
Actor Kirk Douglas, who was born nearly 100 years ago — before American women had the right to vote – cast his ballot by mail for Hillary Clinton, the first major party female contender, he revealed on election day.
Ari Fleischer, a White House press secretary under President George W. Bush, said he will leave his presidential ballot blank, walking back his endorsement of Donald Trump earlier this year.
Making his final campaign stop in the swing state of Florida before Tuesday’s election, Donald Trump said President Barack Obama was a “disaster” for Israel.
A Donald Trump surrogate slammed Hillary Clinton for allowing Jay Z to perform at a rally, but she got one detail wrong, when she said the rapper had featured “mazel tov cocktails” in one of his music videos.
Ads have names. The famous political ad linking Barry Goldwater to a nuclear bomb was called “Daisy Girl.” Ronald Reagan’s ad branding him as the candidate of optimism was called “Morning in America.” Remember the one showing Sen. John Kerry as an out-of-touch elitist? That was “Windsurfing.”
After one Charedi Orthodox newspaper printed a photo of Hillary Clinton, a rival Charedi paper accused it of breaking Jewish law.
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