Twitter told it.
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By tracking emotive tweets in the three weeks prior to polling day, these researchers called the election better than most pollsters.
AP/Matt Rourke
Despite acknowledging her pain, the losing candidate kept her composure as she admitted defeat.
This is news to me.
EPA/Lex van Lieshout
Forecasters have been left reeling once again after failing to predict the outcome of the US election.
EPA/Michael Reynolds
Trump won because his supporters no longer believe incremental change can deliver for them.
Worried looks in a Beijing bar at the Trump victory.
EPA/Rolex dela Pena
Forget what you heard about isolationism, the new president-elect will realise the US needs the world and vice versa.
US President elect Donald Trump greets supporters on election night in New York.
Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
The world’s best known talk show host has become the president-elect of the most powerful country in the world. Trump running the US is unlikely to be good news for Africa.
EPA/Valda Kalnina
While the rest of the world reeled in shock, the Russian leader was very quick to congratulate the new president-elect.
Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop studying the US electoral map during Question Time on Wednesday.
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The Turnbull government wants to engage with Donald Trump’s administration quickly and constructively, to talk about the United States’ strategic interests and role in the Asia Pacific region.
Donald Trump’s election is bad news for the African continent.
Mike Segar/Reuters
A key strategy for President-elect Trump is to turn the US inward, both economically and politically. This bodes badly for Africa.
Quite the surprise!
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November 9, 2016
Brian Ward , Northumbria University, Newcastle ; David Baker , Coventry University ; Gina Yannitell Reinhardt , University of Essex ; Mark McLay , Glasgow Caledonian University ; Michael Patrick Cullinane , Northumbria University, Newcastle ; Paula Keaveney , Edge Hill University , and Toby James , University of East Anglia
From coast to coast, the 2016 election has torn up the usual order.
Donald Trump speaks at his election night rally in Manhattan.
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President-elect Trump sounded very different from candidate Trump.
Pollsters seemed to grow reflective as the night wore on.
EPA/JASON SZENES
Many pollsters are now eating humble pie.
President Elect Trump has pulled off a remarkable victory.
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Trump has won the White House by offering a vision of a bygone era, in favour of a more cosmopolitan, sophisticated future.
Flanked by his family, US President Elect Donald Trump called for unity as he claimed victory.
Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Leading Australian academics respond to Donald Trump’s victory, and look ahead to what kind of president he might be. Much unknown about Trump’s foreign policy, but expect instability Gorana Grgic, lecturer…
Senator-elect Todd Young, R-Indiana, thanks supporters after winning his race at an election night rally in Indianapolis.
AP Photo/Michael Conroy
Hopes among Democrats of gaining a majority in the Senate were dashed. Here’s what a narrow Republican majority might mean moving forward.
Trump supporters celebrate on Nov. 8, 2016.
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The pundits and polls got it wrong. Here’s why.
Donald Trump claims victory in New York.
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November 9, 2016
William Case , City University of Hong Kong ; Andrea Peto , Central European University ; Janjira Sombatpoonsiri , Thammasat University ; Jay Batongbacal , University of the Philippines ; Jonathan Rynhold , Bar-Ilan University ; Miguel Angel Latouche , Universidad Central de Venezuela ; Richard Maher , European University Institute ; Rut Diamint , Torcuato di Tella University ; Salvador Vázquez del Mercado , Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) ; Subarno Chattarji , University of Delhi , and Weronika Grzebalska , Polish Academy of Sciences
Donald J Trump has emerged victorious in the historic, and historically acerbic, 2016 American presidential election. What does this outcome mean for the world?
Jubilant: President-elect Trump.
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It wasn’t supposed to happen, but Trump’s mastery of the dark arts was just too great.
Coming your way.
EPA/Tannen Maury
After seeing the worst of American democracy, the outside world will have to adjust to a hugely unpredictable president.
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Whatever happens over the next four years it won’t be boring. Let’s hope we get through it.