Updated: Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 9:27pm
This election cycle, members of the student group Yale for Change spent countless hours traveling to battleground states, phone-banking and door-knocking for Sen. Barack Obama. Their efforts appeared to pay off Tuesday as voter turnout soared nationwide and the Democratic presidential nominee won the presidency. But according to a model developed by Yale professors to...
On Election Day, Yale voters were everywhere: sticking on “I voted” stickers, spilling out of the Afro-American Cultural Center to phonebank for Sen. Barack Obama, watching election returns and rallying on Old Campus. But they were just a small part of the record-breaking mass of young people who turned out to send Obama to the Oval Office. At least 2.2 million more...
CHICAGO — Sen. Barack Obama shattered racial barriers and ushered in a new era of American politics on Tuesday by decisively defeating his Republican rival to become the 44th president of the United States of America. Obama, the 47-year-old son of a Kansan mother and a Kenyan father, topped Sen. John McCain of Arizona to conclude the longest, most expensive campaign in...
At 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 5, Yale exploded. For the second time. It started at 211 Park St. A mass of about 100 students that surged towards Old Campus, chanting. “Obama!” Students rushed out from all corners of campus, in a clear demonstration of their political leanings. (4 in 5 students polled by the News last week said they were voting for the Illinois...
PHOENIX — One woman stood out at a rally for supporters of Sen. John McCain here last night. She wore a dress made of plastic McCain yard signs, kept together with duct tape — and nothing else. The woman said she was from Arizona, adding, as she entered the party, that it was the “same state as our next president.” The woman’s name was Linda Miracle, and while...
CHICAGO — Renee Pearcey anxiously awaited voting results from her home state of Florida — an electoral battleground — in Grant Park on Tuesday night. But long before the Sunshine State was called, the show was over. At 10 p.m. local time, Sen. Barack Obama had officially been projected the next president of the United States, eliciting roaring cheers from the...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.— It is raining on Election Day in Virginia. David Allen ’10, James Gleckner ’10 and David Lee ’10 are following a Google map to East Duncan Street in this Washington suburb, ground zero for Barack Obama’s statewide campaign. “What are we doing here?” asks Allen, who arrived Sunday to phone bank and hang door signs for the Obama...
PHOENIX — On North Central Avenue here in Arizona’s capital, there is still a large blue billboard advertising John McCain’s 2004 Senate re-election campaign. Just across the street from that sign Tuesday morning was a throng of ninth graders who had taken the day off from their local charter school. They held signs of their own, albeit much smaller and made with...
WASILLA, Alaska — The Great Bear Brewery is famous for its “good beer, good chow, good company.” At least that is what Chris, a taxi driver who came here from South Carolina in the ’80s, said. Inside the bar, big families and bearded men enjoyed hearty, fist-sized burgers served on sack cloth tables covered in plastic. On the surface, there is little to...
HASTINGS, Neb. — Two years and two weeks ago, Scott Kleeb GRD ’06 felt like he could achieve the near-impossible: turn a red region blue for the first time in 48 years by edging out Adrian Smith for Nebraska’s 3rd Congressional District seat. The momentum, he says, was all his. Until, that is, another Yalie rolled into town: George W. Bush ’68 Apparently...
KEENE, N.H. — With just a few days remaining before the 2008 elections, polls from New Hampshire show Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama with a sizable lead among voters. But, taking nothing for granted, 35 members of the Yale College Democrats ventured here on Saturday to canvass. There was a notable sense of urgency among the students. After all, it was...
BRIDGEPORT — Campaigning for what many are calling the most inspirational presidential candidate since his uncle was running, Ted Kennedy Jr. gave the keynote address at the largest Connecticut rally since early September in support of the Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. The rally, held at the Mount Aery Baptist Church in this shoreline...
