(Source: newyorker.com)

In this week’s issue, Ryan Lizza examines the Republican Party’s problem attracting minority voters, specifically Hispanics, through the efforts and concerns of the G.O.P. in Texas, “the largest and most important state in the Republican firmament.” Lizza talks to Ted Cruz, the Hispanic senator-elect from Texas, about the future of his party in the state, and, ultimately, the nation. “If Republicans do not do better in the Hispanic community, in a few short years Republicans will no longer be the majority party in our state,” Cruz tells Lizza. And, “in not too many years, Texas could switch from being all Republican to all Democrat. If that happens, no Republican will ever again win the White House … If Texas is bright blue, you can’t get to two-seventy electoral votes. The Republican Party would cease to exist.” 

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One of the least commented-upon aspects of the election returns is that well over fifty per cent of Caucasian females voted for Romney, too. Not as many of them as white men, of course, but a solid majority. Indeed, as a proportion of the total, more white women voted for Romney on Tuesday than voted for George W. Bush, in 2004, or for John McCain, in 2008.

John Cassidy on why white women voted for Romney, despite his recent shift to the right on women’s issues.

Photograph by Chip Litherland.

We’d been watching the debates, and trying to decide, after each, who won. Then the kids started pulling out the measuring cups and the teaspoons and the canisters of flour and sugar. They’d all bake something, and the grownups were supposed to taste each, and vote. The balloting was fraught. How do you vote against a sugar cookie? But it got me wondering about what elections look like to first-timers. Did politics look to them like a confection, Ron Paul a lemon square, Rick Perry marzipan?

Jill Lepore on how kids vote: http://nyr.kr/U9hzXV

Over the years, The New Yorker has covered a lot of Election Days. Here are a few of our favorite voting scenes from the magazine’s archives: http://nyr.kr/YTwlqP

Election Day is coming at last, and bringing with it triumph, disappointment, anger, dismay—maybe even hope and change. Also, cartoons. Here is a selection, showing how New Yorker cartoonists have exercised the humor franchise: http://nyr.kr/PUXzwX

Election Day is here. As voters hit the polls, we’ve sent photographers out to swing states across the country. Throughout the day we’ll be posting a series of slide shows with new photos, from Colorado to Maine. Here’s a peek at what’s happening in Florida and Virginia. Click-through for a slideshow.

Judith Thurman on the confusion and delays at voting polls on Manhattan’s Upper East Side: http://nyr.kr/TuOkQY

We want to see what your Election Day looks like! Upload your pictures here, and they could be featured on newyorker.com tomorrow.

Laughing at the polls, a slideshow of cartoons.

Election Day is coming at last, and bringing with it triumph, disappointment, anger, dismay—maybe even hope and change. Also, cartoons. Click-through for a selection, showing how New Yorker cartoonists have exercised the humor franchise: http://nyr.kr/SoljFl