Russell J. Dalton, professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, [writes]: America has just experienced what some claim is the most unusual presidential election in our modern history. The Democrats picked the first woman to run as a major-party candidate, while the Republicans selected an alt-right populist who is the first modern candidate never to have held an elected office.

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