The latest news & results from the 2016 US election campaign
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…
By JOE BULMAN There are a lot of people voting for Donald Trump in this election. He is definitely going to get more than 10% of the popular vote – which is concerning enough. And now the ABC poll is putting the definition of a demagogue one point ahead of his opponent for the first time…
An Opinion Piece by Wesley LeBlanc The election isn’t rigged. An election has never been rigged and an election never will be rigged. To believe such a thing goes against the very backbone on which our voting system confidently relies and that backbone isn’t just composed of beliefs. Yet you hear that all the time:…
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.
