Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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Kletter: Volunteering is its own reward

Published Thursday, November 13, 2008

Members of Yale for Change, a group uniting the Yale College Democrats and Yale for Obama, were upset at the News last week for an article that they felt diminished their get-out-the-vote efforts in the election. Lost in the uproar was one important point: why does recognition matter?

I think their letters to the News and e-mails to their panlists, in which they criticized the article as unfair, made valid points about the article. The application of one broad, theoretical model to actual work in a given election is bound to gloss over nuances. More importantly, something that...

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