Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine displayed a time-honored trait for a vice president -- preparedness -- showing up at his Richmond, Virginia, polling place 15 minutes early on Tuesday.
Charles and David Koch, who have assembled the most powerful fundraising network in Republican politics, stunned some GOPers this year by not mobilizing their resources to boost Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton traveled to three states, held four campaign rallies, and didn't return home to New York until well after 3 a.m. on her last day as a presidential candidate before Election Day.
Barack Obama was catapulted into office eight years ago by what was, at the time, the most diverse electorate in history. The Americans who head to the polls to cast ballots for his successor are even more diverse.
On a dramatic final day of the ugliest campaign in modern history, the candidates and their surrogates held nearly two dozen rallies, chased one another through swing states and made desperate last pleas to voters.
As millions of American citizens march to the polls Tuesday to fulfill their constitutional duty and right, it's clear that the results of the 2016 election may divide the nation, its states, and even certain cities and towns. But is it splitting some households too?
The political consensus is virtually unanimous: If Hillary Clinton wins North Carolina, Donald Trump has to win every other competitive state to take the White House.
Registered Republicans overtook Democrats in terms of ballots already cast for the first time since voting began in Colorado, according to the latest numbers released Monday.
Oregon Secretary of State Jeanne Atkins has asked the state Justice Department and the FBI to look into automated calls erroneously telling some Oregon residents that they are not registered vote -- calls that Atkins said are unduly confusing residents and may wrongly leave them with the impression their votes won't count.
In a normal election year, it's easy to lump voters into clean categories: Republicans vote for the Republican candidate, Democrats support the Democratic candidate and undecided voters waver between the two until Election Day.
Hillary Clinton's odds of winning the presidency rose from 78% last week to 91% Monday before Election Day, according to CNN's Political Prediction Market.
Conservative street artist Sabo, a longtime supporter of Sen. Ted Cruz, told CNN last week that after months of refusing to back the Republican presidential nominee, and initially vowing to "write in Cruz," he will now be voting for Donald Trump.
Away from the balloon drops of victory and somber concessions of defeat on Election Night, a small club of political animals will be watching under very different circumstances.
Offering a taste of the intra-party tension that could follow Election Day, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee issued a warning to the Republicans who never came around to back Donald Trump.
House Democratic leaders told rank-and-file members on a conference call on Monday that FBI Director James Comey's letter sent to Capitol Hill in late October indicating more Clinton emails were under review hurt the party's chances in the effort to retake control of the House of Representatives.
The battle for control of the Senate is so close that going into Election Day, there are at least eight races virtually tied, leaving in doubt which party will control the chamber for the next two years.
One day before Election Day, more people have already voted in Florida than did in that state during the entire disputed 2000 election, according to the latest early voting data.
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