Absentee-voter exit poll: Trump wins Israel by 65 points less than Romney did

A soldier stands next to a bus stop with a pro-Trump poster near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel. Republican nominee Donald J. Trump won the US presidential vote among American citizens voting from Israel, according to an iVoteIsrael exit poll taken this week, but in an election plagued with low favorability ratings for both candidates, he had a far less impressive showing than Republicans did in Israel in the past.

Ex-Klan head David Duke goes bonkers at raucous senate debate:…

In a debate before an empty auditorium at Louisiana's Dillard University, former Ku Klux Klan head David Duke traded insults with his opponents and got into a screaming match with the moderator as the debate broke up and his rivals scurried away. According to WGNO , Duke barely qualified to participate in the debate between candidates seeking one of Louisiana's U.S. Senate seats.

Catholic parish’s bulletin says Democratic voters are doomed to hell, Clinton is satanic

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Republican nominee Donald Trump and Melania Trump, together at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner on Oct. 20 in New York. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Republican nominee Donald Trump and Melania Trump, together at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner on Oct. 20 in New York.

Electoral College map shows Trump still has work to do

Donald Trump has closed the gap with Hillary Clinton in many national polls - with some putting him in the lead - but he faces a far tougher challenge in the Electoral College, analysts said Wednesday. According to the RealClearPolitics average of national polls, Clinton was ahead of the GOP nominee by a scant 1.7 percentage points, 47 to 45.3 percent, down from a 7.1 point lead on Oct. 18 before FBI Director James Comey's e-mail bombshell on Friday.

Hassan, Ayotte paint each other as weak on cyber security

New Hampshire's Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte on Wednesday turned a debate question about cyber attacks into one of her most aggressive critiques of her Democratic challenger, Gov. Maggie Hassan. During a one-hour televised debate on WMUR-TV, Ayotte didn't directly answer a question about whether Russia has succeeded in trying to influence U.S. elections.

Obama worries black vote is not solid enough for Clinton

President Barack Obama twice generated a historic wave of African-American support on his way to the White House, but worries now the black vote "is not as solid as it needs to be" for Hillary Clinton. Obama's and Clinton's travel schedules are taking them to swing-state metro areas with significant black populations, and the two officials are fixtures in black-audience media.

McMullin reaches out to Utah millennials in presidential race

University of Utah student Jenica Jessen, 21, said she's already cast her first-ever presidential vote, choosing independent candidate Evan McMullin even though she is a registered Republican. "This is my first presidential election that I'm old enough to vote in," the senior majoring in linguistics and political science said Wednesday.

Matthew Fisher: Donald Trump’s pledge to revive mines resonates in down-and-out coal country

There are few better places to understand how Donald Trump could become U.S. president than McDowell County, whose county seat, Welch, straddles the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River. This corner of Appalachia's severely depressed coal country has become a sensation because Trump is more popular here than in any other place in the U.S. The abrasive real estate developer won 91.5 per cent of the vote in the Republican primary on a promise of better days.

A fitting final chapter to the sleaze sweepstakes that is the 2016 presidential election

As the presidential campaigns sink to the challenge of demonstrating that there is no such thing as rock bottom, remember this: When the Clintons decamped from Washington in January 2001, they took some White House furnishings that were public property. They also finished accepting more than $190,000 in gifts, including two coffee tables and two chairs, a $7,375 gratuity from Denise Rich, whose fugitive former husband had been pardoned in President Clinton's final hours.

The Latest: Challenged North Carolina voter cited by Obama

President Barack Obama is citing voter challenges at the heart of an NAACP lawsuit as he urges people at a North Carolina rally to vote. While campaigning for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Chapel Hill, Obama mentioned one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

Trump, Clinton campaign on different economic visions

Washington, Nov 3 - Economy is once again a key issue in the heated campaign between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her Republican rival Donald Trump, who disagrees about the strength of US economy and have floated widely differing tax and energy plans. Trump cites the weakest recovery following a recession in the post-War period as evidence of President Barack Obama's failed economic policies, which Clinton wants to continue, Efe news reported on Wednesday.

US dollar drops on presidential election concerns

New York, Nov 3 - The US dollar declined for the second consecutive session against most major currencies on Wednesday amid rising uncertainties about the next week's US presidential election. In late New York trading, the euro rose to $1.1096 from $1.1059, and the British pound climbed to $1.2294 from $1.2240, Xinhua news agency reported.

Big voter turnout expected on Nov. 8

Secretary of State Denise Merrill said Wednesday that election officials are bracing for high voter turnout next week as residents go to the polls to elect a new president and resolve congressional and state races. "This is going to be a big volume of voters," Merrill said during a news conference on Tuesday's voting.