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Five election takeaways
Two men in suits face a large TV screen showing Pennsylvania 2022 Senate election results.

A cable network television broadcast on the Pennsylvania Senate race with Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Image: AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Five election takeaways

Stephanie Perry, executive director of the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies and manager for exit polls at NBC News, shares her team’s top five exit-poll analyses to help explain what happened.

Kristen de Groot

Brazil’s presidential election
Tulia Falleti, Melissa Teixeira, and Marilene Felinto seated at a table addressing an audience.

CLALS director Tulia Falleti, CLALS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Marilene Felinto, and Penn historian Melissa Teixeira, discuss Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva’s defeat of right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

Brazil’s presidential election

Three experts share their thoughts on Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva’s defeat of right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, and what it means for Latin America’s largest democracy.

Kristen de Groot

How to read your social media feeds on Election Day
Associated Press

How to read your social media feeds on Election Day

Dean John L. Jackson, Jr. of the Annenberg School for Communication says that the internet’s ability to create and spread evidence from scratch necessitates better evaluation of information.

Election Day 2022
Voting booth with a picture of an American flag on it, with other curtained booths behind it in alternating red and blue

Voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Derry, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. (Image: AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Election Day 2022

In what is sure to be an historic election, Penn Today looks back at the stories it published in the months and days leading to the midterms. 

Kristen de Groot

Trump may pose a test no special counsel can pass
The New York Times

Trump may pose a test no special counsel can pass

Claire Finkelstein of Penn Carey Law says that there’s no legal reason a former president or presidential candidate couldn’t be indicted but that the polarized nature of current politics would cause any criminal investigation to be seen as partisan.

Voter suppression is keeping students from the polls
The Nation

Voter suppression is keeping students from the polls

Third-year Mira Sydow in the College of Arts and Sciences writes about college organizers’ fight for ballot access in battleground states across the nation.