ELECTION

Ranked choice voting wins in cities

PBS News -  President-elect Donald Trump won support this election from some key demographic groups — some that have favored Republicans in the past and others that generally vote Democratic. According to AP VoteCast, a survey of the American electorate conducted by The AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 16% of Black voters supported Trump in 2024, an 8-point gain from his run in 2020. In comparison, 83% of Black voters supported Vice President Kamala Harris, an 8-point drop from the 91% that supported Joe Biden in 2020. Among Latino voters, Trump's support grew from 35% in 2020 to 42% in 2024. Meanwhile, 56% of Latino voters cast their ballot for Harris in 2024 compared to 63% for Biden in 2020. AP VoteCast also showed a gender gap in voting preferences for this election. Trump won support from 24% of Black men versus 9% of Black women, 47% of Latino men versus 38% of Latino women, and 59% of white men versus 53% of white women. 

150 billionaire families spent $1.9B on the 2024 election through October.

Fortune - Online searches looking at moving to in the U.K. increased by 900% between November 4 and November 6 as Trump’s election victory became clear, analysis by job search site Jobseeker found. That was only topped by Canada, where move-based searches increased by 2,400%. Americans can benefit from a tier 2 skilled worker visa to move to the U.K. if they have a job offer waiting for them. Approval depends on a worker’s occupation, but there are a host of eligible jobs listed on the U.K. government’s website.   

Yahoo - Google searches for "move to Canada" surged 1,270% in the 24 hours after U.S. East Coast polls closed on Tuesday, company data shows. Similar searches about moving to New Zealand climbed nearly 2,000% while those for Australia jumped 820%.Late Wednesday evening on the U.S. East Coast, Google searches about emigrating were hitting all-time highs for all three countries, according to a Google official.The search giant does not provide absolute figures but data from the Immigration New Zealand website showed the site logged some 25,000 new U.S. users on Nov. 7, compared to 1,500 for the same day last year. 

NY Post - Former Barack Obama adviser David Axelrod has warned that Vice President Kamala Harris’ election loss shows Democrats are becoming “a smarty-pants, suburban, college-educated party.” Axelrod, a chief strategist during the Obama administration, stressed in a CNN appearance Thursday that the 2024 election results proved the left was at risk of losing the working-class vote altogether after President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory. “The only group that Democrats gained within the election on Tuesday was white college graduates, and among working-class voters, there was a significant decline,” Axelrod told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

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