Updated: Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 1:37pm
While the long presidential primary has left some Yale politicos with more experience than they ever could have expected, Jacob Koch ’10 has many of them beat — by at least a few years. Koch, a co-founder of Yale for Obama, has been campaigning for Sen. Barack Obama since the Democratic candidate was first seeking a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2004. “I used to...
Douglas Schoen — strategic consultant to former U.S. President Bill Clinton LAW ’73, current senior advisor to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and business partner to dismissed Sen. Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 campaign manager Mark Penn — came to campus Wednesday to share his thoughts on the U.S. presidential election and the changing American political...
Ned Lamont SOM ’80 was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate for the state of Connecticut in 2006. He is a senior faculty fellow at the School of Management and the founder of Lamont Digital Systems, now Campus TeleVideo, the country’s top telecommunications company serving colleges and universities. He spoke with the News about his post at SOM, his business, his...
Midterms took a back seat as many Yalies spent Tuesday night glued to their TVs and computers, waiting anxiously for official reports from precincts in Houston and El Paso, Cleveland and Columbus. By press time, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 was projected to win Democratic presidential primaries in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island, while Illinois Sen. Barack Obama...
Pundits and prognosticators have jammed the airwaves and the blogosphere in recent weeks with predictions about today’s presidential primaries in Texas and Ohio. But the seemingly endless buzz notwithstanding, members of the Yale College Democrats took a moment to listen last night when the guest at their weekly meeting, Martin Frost, told the audience that he thinks...
Campus supporters of Sen. Barack Obama headed out into the city Saturday to clean streets as part of an effort to demonstrate the grassroots, civic-minded nature of the Illinois senator’s presidential campaign. The students’ street-sweeping effort — which was duplicated by students in Philadelphia — was the brainchild of Justin Kosslyn ’09 and David...
Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd on Tuesday endorsed the presidential campaign of his colleague from Illinois, Sen. Barack Obama, saying it is time for Democrats to rally around a consensus candidate and bring an end to the nomination fight before it becomes too divisive — though he denied he was calling on Sen. Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 to drop out. “It’s now the...
When Adam Goldfarb ’02 SOM ’05 LAW ’09 returned to New Haven after months campaigning for Barack Obama, he found his bedroom redecorated with about 30 campaign posters for Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 — under his pillow, under his bed, in his drawers. He knew who was responsible for the prank; his roommate Addisu Demissie ’01 LAW ’08 is the state director of the...
Scores of Yale alumni have become politicians during the school’s 307-year history. Scott Kleeb GRD ’06 may be the next one — at least, he hopes. Kleeb, a Democrat who currently teaches history at Hastings College, launched his campaign for a Nebraska Senate seat Monday, kicking off an uphill battle against a popular former Republican governor and U.S. secretary of...
Mike Gravel admits the Democratic nomination for president is out of his reach. But he has his eyes on a different prize. “I’m in this all the way to the end,” Gravel said in an interview with the News on Tuesday night. “The end is Nov. 3.” The former Alaska senator says he plans to stay in the race until Election Day — although he does not yet know how, he...
In an election year when voters are being carefully — almost obsessively — monitored by countless pollsters, Yale can now count a few of them among its undergraduate ranks. In an e-mail sent out last Thursday, an anonymous group calling itself the Yale Decides 2008 Team invited Yale students to participate in a poll aimed at determining student preferences in this...
Two months ago, Sen. John McCain was barely on Yale students’ political radars. Now he is more than just a small blip on the periphery. According to a News poll taken in January, only 17 percent of undergraduates expected the Arizona senator to end up as the Republican nominee for president, compared to 32 percent for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and 26 percent...
