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2016 United States presidential election 00:03:27 1 Background 00:04:47 2 Primary process 00:05:50 3 Nominations 00:05:59 3.1 Republican Party 00:06:08 3.1.1 Primaries 00:08:58 3.1.2 Nominees 00:09:05 3.1.3 Other major candidates 00:09:41 3.1.4 Vice presidential selection 00:11:08 3.2 Democratic Party 00:11:17 3.2.1 Primaries 00:16:59 3.2.2 Nominees 00:17:07 3.2.3 Other major candidates 00:17:41 3.2.4 Vice presidential selection 00:19:07 3.3 Third parties and independents 00:19:28 3.3.1 Libertarian Party 00:19:45 3.3.2 Green Party 00:20:02 3.3.3 Independent 00:20:20 3.3.4 Constitution Party 00:20:36 3.3.5 Other nominations 00:20:45 3.3.6 Candidates gallery 00:20:53 4 General election campaign 00:29:59 4.1 Ballot access 00:30:23 4.2 Party conventions 00:31:14 4.3 Campaign finance 00:31:56 4.4 Newspaper endorsements 00:33:22 5 Russian involvement 00:34:47 6 Voter suppression 00:35:12 7 Notable expressions, phrases, and statements 00:37:51 8 Debates 00:37:59 8.1 Primary election debates 00:38:09 8.2 General election debates 00:40:31 9 Results 00:46:30 9.1 Candidates table 00:47:01 9.2 Results by state 00:50:15 9.3 Close races 00:52:16 9.3.1 Breakdown by ticket 00:52:25 9.4 Battleground states 00:59:17 9.5 Maps 00:59:25 9.6 Voter demographics 01:02:13 9.7 Forecasting 01:06:54 9.8 Viewership 01:07:02 10 Post-election events and controversies 01:07:22 10.1 Protests 01:08:52 10.2 Vote tampering concerns 01:11:07 10.3 Recount petitions 01:14:13 10.4 Electoral College lobbying 01:16:11 10.5 Faithless electors 01:19:05 11 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuKfABj2eGyjH3ntPxp4YeQ You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial American presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana Governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator from Virginia Tim Kaine, despite losing the popular vote. Trump took office as the 45th President, and Pence as the 48th Vice President, on January 20, 2017. Incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama was ineligible to serve a third term due to the term limits established by the 22nd Amendment. Trump emerged as the front-runner amidst a wide field of Republican primary candidates, while Clinton defeated Senator Bernie Sanders and became the first female presidential nominee of a major American party. Trump's populist, nationalist campaign, which promised to "Make America Great Again" and opposed political correctness, illegal immigration, and many free-trade agreements, garnered extensive free media coverage. Clinton emphasized her political experience, denounced Trump and many of his supporters as bigots, and advocated the expansion of President Obama's policies, racial, LGBT, and women's rights, and "inclusive capitalism." The tone of the general election campaign was widely characterized as divisive and negative. Trump faced controversy over his views on race and immigration, incidents of violence against protestors at his rallies, and his alleged sexual misconduct, while Clinton was dogged by declining approval ratings and an FBI investigation of her improper use of a private email server. Clinton had held the lead in nearly every pre-election nationwide poll and in most swing state polls, leading some commentators to compare Trump's victory to Harry S. Truman's victory in 1948 as one of the greatest political upsets in modern American history. While Clinton received 2.87 million more votes nationwide (the largest margin ever for a candidate who lost the electoral college), a margin of 2.1%, Trump won a majority of electoral votes, with a total of 306 electors from 30 states, including upset victories in the pivotal Rust Belt region. Ultimately, Trump received 304 electoral votes and Clinton garnered 227, as two faithless electors defected from Trump and five defected from Clinton. Trump is the fifth person in U.S. history to become president wh ... |