The latest news & results from the 2016 US election campaign
I can still recall when Barack Obama won the presidency. I could never have imagined that an African American could become president. Even though at the time I did not immediately see the effect it would have on my life, I knew with absolute certainty, I was living through history. When Pete Seeger sang “The…
Written by Emilia Jiang When you type in ‘US election 2016’ on Baidu.com, China’s biggest search engine as Google has been banned for access since 2014, millions of news threads pop out instantly, along with key words such as ‘joke’, ‘ridiculous’ and ‘reality show’. For many past presidential elections, The Chinese Communist Party use them…
The upcoming US Election is largely seen as a two-party race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. However, there are also other candidates running for election who are expected to receive a large amount of votes. Students from our partner institution, Montclair State University, explain why they are avoiding the mainstream candidates.
After a long and gruelling campaign, there is now just one week to go until the United States Presidential Election. It’s fair to say we have got to know the two candidates rather well by now and our reporters Nina Nagel and Denise Minichini went out to put the political knowledge of BU students to the test. They stated a quote to the public and asked them to guess if it was Clinton or Trump that said it.
[View the story “Trump could be the first presidential candidate to deny election outcome. ” on Storify] Main image: Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
