Eric Miller ’16 Inside Politics On November 7, 2012, Republicans across the United States went to bed disappointed as they watched their candidate, Mitt Romney, fall to the incumbent president and Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, in the 2012 presidential election. While pre-election polls had indicated a nail-biting race, the president’s victory in virtually every single […]
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Drew Hoppes, ‘13 The boundaries have been set. The debate on budget implementation raged on in Washington last week as the pilot budgets by both parties were revealed. The debate and the media coverage that followed served as a perfect example of the polarization of politics and the media. Each party chastised the other for […]
Hannah Bentz, ‘16 On Febuary 26, 2013 The Colbert Report interviewed Jeremy Bird, Field Director of President Obama’s 2012 campaign. Jeremy Bird established a grassroots organization to encourage people to vote in the red state of Texas. Battleground Texas’s goal is to get minority groups in the state to exercise their constitutional right to vote. […]
Daniel Palino, ’15 Chris Christie is undeniably a rising star within the Republican Party. He delivered the keynote address at the 2012 Republican National Convention, is generally favorable with the public, and is considered a contender for the 2016 Presidential election. So then why, exactly, was the New Jersey governor not invited to attend the […]
Shannon Brobst, ’15 On March 1, sequestration will take place if the Democrats and Republicans do not come to an agreement. According to the article “Hard Budget Realities as Agencies Prepare to Detail Reductions” by Jonathan Weisman from the New York Times, sequestration will cut about $85 billion dollars from the federal government’s expenditures. The […]
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GOP Hispanic Outreach
Josh DeLeon ’14 The increase of the Latino-American population has caused both political parties to mobilize, trying to reel in their votes. The Republican National Committee (RNC) has been pushing for the vote and saying that “it’s going to pull out all the stops.” The RNC has hired six Hispanic Outreach Directors in key battleground […]
Kirsten Smith ’13 In the past week, Republican Presidential candidates have caused quite an uproar over contraception. In 1965, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Griswold v. Connecticut that prohibited a state from outlawing the use of contraception. GOP candidate Rick Santorum has publicly announced his desire to reverse the Supreme Court’s decision in […]
Anna Cammisa ’13 All the major U.S. news outlets featured articles this week about the ongoing congressional battle over the extension of payroll tax cuts and Republicans’ eventual reversal of the their position on the issue. President Obama’s 2013 budget proposal was released earlier this week and has so far generated a number of varying […]
