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Daily Archives: November 10, 2016

Making America Grate Again – Early thoughts on a shock election

Today I had to give the first lecture of my ‘elections and voting’ course since Donald Trump’s shock victory. To be honest, I’m glad it wasn’t yesterday. I found myself genuinely upset by the result, to the point where any sort of objective analysis was probably impossible. Anyway, I had a good night’s sleep and spent the…

November 10, 2016 in Election, opinion polls, Politics.

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