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Election night was on November 4th, yet the fight for a Minnesota Senate seat rages on between Democrat Al Franken and incumbent Republican Norm Coleman. The end, however, seems near and it's looking like former comedian turned politician over night, Al Franken, will win the seat. The real question, though, is... can't they both lose?
This pas...
Now that the year is coming to a close, it’s time to look back at all the things we loved and hated about 2008.
Best: The Election. This year’s historical election brought us the first black president and the first female vice presidential candidate. Between the history that was made and the hilarious SNL sketches that ensued (not to mention t...
Surely you heard the story of Ann Nixon Cooper in Obama's victory speech on Tuesday night. What you might not have heard is that her grandson graduated from UF in 1986. Ernest Hooper is now a columnist at the St. Petersburg Times but he once walked our campus as public relations student and even wrote for The Alligator (though, lets be real, who...
The first thing I did upon witnessing last night's election results was call my mom and scream myself hoarse with my wonderfully democratic roommates.
The second thing I did was of course, check Facebook. Only half an hour after Obama's victory was announced, Vanderbilt students were celebrating, rejoicing, complaining and questioning via Face...
Last night was the most wired I’ve been in a very long time. Early returns showed Obama down in Virginia and Florida, which put me on the edge of my seat in panic mode. But then as CNN dove into their Magic Map county by county, it was clear that the Democratic regions hadn’t been counted yet.
Then the results started to come in. The first big...
On the uncharacteristically warm evening of November 4th, 2008, Barack Obama was declared the winner of the election around 11 PM, and deliriously overjoyed college students flooded the streets of New Brunswick in celebration. Most were drunk on happiness (and in general) as they passed through downtown New Brunswick. After our happy mob swept t...
Today, for the first time, I (like many of my peers across the nation) voted for the first time in a presidential election. Since I had class from 10 to 4, and was afraid of there being long lines in the evening, I decided to go exercise my civic duty first thing in the morning. I also didn’t sleep very much the night before (a mix of doing ho...
This guy had a beer, had an elightment and gave into the Obama believers.
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