There are 55 days left in the year. Today in history: On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party was elected President of the United States as he defeated ...

A quite similar scenario occurred when a Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, when a handful of Democratic ...

In 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney to win a second term. Federal finance reports ...

There is only one precedent in US history of a president coming to power twice with an interval in between, as Donald Trump has just done, becoming the 47th president after serving as the 45th. That ...

Minnesota's 10 electoral college votes will be going to Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, CBS News projects.

There is an open space for a significant new, centrist political party, created by the pull of the progressive and Donald ...

The republican party or the Grand Old Party – the GOP – as it is popularly called, was founded in March 1854, in Ripon, Wisconsin. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the first republican president of the ...

Moderates have been largely squeezed out of political relevance. There is room for a new party, and it would have to start at ...

As mentioned in the above quote, while the first Thomas Nast Republican elephant cartoon appeared in the Harper’s Weekly ...