It’s no epiphany that college students are politically inactive. In the 2004 presidential election, 46.7% of those age 18-24 voted. While this is an improvement from the 36.1% of students who voted in 2000, it is still significantly lower than the percentage of voters in other age groups. There are plenty of […]
Officially one month from the eve of the 2008 Iowa Caucuses and with only two televised debates remaining (three debates if you count the radio-only debate on NPR in Des Moines, Dec. 4) before the first-in-the-nation primary, polls are still changing and neither of the two likelies — Clinton or Obama — has anything locked […]
The Penn Democrats just wanted to give a big thanks to our friends at the Penn College Republicans for speaking out about some of the Student Activities Council’s (SAC) rules regarding funding for political groups. In today’s Daily Pennsylvanian, College Republican President Zac Byer wrote on how political groups should be funded just like any other SAC […]
I hope everyone is enjoying their Thanksgiving break. While not a particularly political post, Meteor Blades, one of the best writers over at Daily Kos, posted his personal reflection on Thanksgiving. It’s an interesting read worth checking out.
With apologies for posting this entry a week after elections, I wanted to do a quick roundup of the results of the 2007 elections. There were three gubernatorial races, along with legislative races in Maine, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Virginia:
Statewide races
Kentucky: Ever since Ernie Fletcher got himself into trouble with the law by pardoning everyone […]
The Liberal-Conservative Government passed the test of the Danish Electorate Tuesday. Polls did show that it was a close race between the block of parties led by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and the opposition block led by Social Democrat Helle Thorning-Schmidt (yes, she would have been the first Danish woman Prime Minister). In the […]
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Today’s Wall Street Journal editorial provides some interesting insight into the conservatives playbook in the environmental debate. Schwarzenegger is leading California into a lawsuit against the EPA to get Federal approval for California’s strict limits on CO2 emissions on all new cars sold in the state.
The Journal first deplores the governor’s efforts as terrible state […]
Mukasey was a shoe in. He had allayed everyone’s fears of his stance on torture. It’s illegal, he said! He was almost guaranteed a speedy approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Then comes the waterboarding debacle. After being asked to clarify his stance on waterboarding as a torture method, Mukasey was not able to give a clear response. Mukasey […]
Yes, I am not joking! Election is on November 13. What election, you ask? Why, it is the Danish Parliamentary election of course!
My name is Mark and I am an exchange student at Wharton this semester. Back home I am a member of the Social Liberal Party and their youth organization, Danish Social Liberal Youth. […]
While I don’t have a candidate I am supporting this presidential race, I will admit that I am biased against Hillary Clinton. I think she’s done a generally good job representing my home state (New York) in the Senate, but I have reservations about her policy beliefs, along with the fact that her campaign reeks […]