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With an election due in October 2024, Queenslanders still favour the incumbent Palaszczuk government.
Merrick Garland, center, announcing on Nov. 18, 2022, that he will appoint a special counsel for the Department of Justice investigation into former President Donald Trump.
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Special counsels are not entirely independent, but they do still help administrations avoid the perception of bias.
People line up to cast early ballots during the 2022 election at the University of Michigan.
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About 27% of 18- to 29-year-olds voted in the midterms, marking the second-highest voter turnout in midterms in 30 years.
When it came down to it, some Republicans couldn’t vote for Herschel Walker.
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Analysis of voting data suggests that in counties across Georgia, a slice of Republicans just couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Herschel Walker.
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The US-Australia Alliance is seen by many Australians as an incomplete project. Government rhetoric on climate cooperation must now become reality.
Sen. Raphael Warnock, the incumbent Democrat, is up against Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a runoff election to choose who will represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate.
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Georgians appreciate the national attention from the runoff election, but the cost and tendency for a drop in turnout may lead to reform of the state’s ballot contests.
Mehmet Oz speaks on Nov. 8, 2022, shortly before losing his bid for Pennsylvania senator during the midterm elections.
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Celebrity politicians have instant name recognition. But unless they trump competitors in fundraising, and hit other check boxes, they aren’t any more likely to win than traditional politicians.
Wilma Mankiller served in the top leadership role of the Cherokee Nation from 1985 to 1995.
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Wilma Mankiller’s groundbreaking tenure as chief of the Cherokee Nation introduced the US to the power of Indigenous women’s leadership.
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What happened to the predicted red wave in the US midterms?
The state of the Union is … divided.
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The current political polarisation will make the president’s job even harder.
Nancy Pelosi’s stepping aside will leave the door open for others.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced she will step aside from senior leadership. It could lead to generational change in the Democratic Party.
Joe Biden would be 86 by the time he finishes a second term.
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Biden remains the default candidate for the Democrat nomination for the 2024 election, but he is ageing and many believe the party would benefit from a younger candidate.
Six former UK prime ministers and a potential new one in Labour’s Keir Starmer.
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The gravity of the current situation is obscuring a less visible crisis – a failure of political imagination
Donald and Melania Trump vote for the US midterms in their adopted home state of Florida.
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The former president’s star appears to be on the wane, which could affect his decision whether to run for the presidency in 2024.
Voters in Michigan said ‘yes’ to Prop 3, a ballot protecting abortion rights.
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Abortion rights were on the ballot in five states during the midterm elections – all broke in favor of abortion-rights advocates.
Democracy in action: people caseting their vote in Akron, Ohio.
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People’s belief in American democracy is undermined by regular changes to state voting laws.
Polls Vs betting on who will win control of Congress.
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Who will win the US midterms, the polls, or the gambling markets?
Hands across the divide: a statue in Northern Ireland.
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We talk to a political scientist and a philosopher about how to bring countries back from dangerous levels of polarisation. Listen to The Conversation Weekly.
Will the midterm elections help gauge support for Christian nationalist ideas?
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Christian nationalist ideas are about more than simply being religious and patriotic. They form a worldview about how the nation should be structured and who belongs there.
Many of the protestors who stormed the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 are said to believe evil forces were at work in Donald Trump’s removal from office.
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Religious belief in the devil may have declined, but western demons are alive and well in popular culture and contemporary politics.