• Politics

    The Day After the Earth Stood Still

    by  • November 5, 2008. 5:52 pm • General, Nikky, Politics • 0 Comments

    Tues­day saw Obama shirts, but­tons, hats, sweat­shirts, signs, and mag­nets take over. Nary a Repub­li­can sup­porter was to be found. I sus­pect they were in hid­ing as usual around this school. But the mood was very pen­sive. I think we real­ized that the elec­tion would be over soon, yet we were (or I was, at least), run­ning over possible […]

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    Make Democracy Happen in Your Own Living Room

    by  • October 29, 2008. 1:40 pm • Danni, General, Politics • 0 Comments

    Greet­ings troll drops read­ers! I just wanted to share with you some thoughts I had yes­ter­day while in my liv­ing room. I pulled my bal­lot out of the mail and sat down to caste my first ever vote for pres­i­dent of the United States. I also voted for gov­er­nor, attor­ney gen­eral, sec­re­tary of state, house rep­re­sen­ta­tives, supe­rior court justices […]

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    Voting: It’s What’s for Dinner

    by  • October 28, 2008. 12:36 am • General, Nikky, Politics • 0 Comments

    We see track­ing polls by the bushel—all vary­ing in accu­racy and results. Yet a com­mon theme among them is that the poll­sters must make a deci­sion about who is likely to vote. Will more youth vote this time? What about seniors? Inde­pen­dents? The sad thing is that nobody is entirely sure who will vote come elec­tion time. […]

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    You Gonna Vote, Brother?

    by  • October 19, 2008. 10:18 pm • General, Nikky, Politics • 0 Comments

    There’s a church about a block down from my apart­ment in Seat­tle that I pass on the way to class every day. Usu­ally in the after­noon there will be a pair of african-american older males sit­ting right out­side pass­ing the time. They aren’t pan­han­dling or any­thing… I sus­pect they live there and just are tak­ing the world in. Last week I was […]

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