Victoria Billings vbillings@mustangdaily.net Cal Poly Democrats President Kayla Clark never could have predicted the results of Tuesday night’s election. The political science sophomore, along with the rest of the election viewing party attendees at The Graduate, was confident before polls closed that President Barack Obama would be reelected, she said. She never thought Obama’s victory […]
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Presidential Election Moments
Obama advertisement accuses Romney of killing a woman A television ad produced by a pro-Obama super-PAC featured a former steelworker who said he could not afford healthcare for his wife who was dying of cancer. His company was purchased and shut down by Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney. Presidential quips […]
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Obama vs. Romney: Where the candidates stand
Kelly Trom ktrom@mustangdaily.net A comparison showing Barack Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s stances and policies on important issues of the upcoming election. War Obama: Obama demonstrated early opposition to the Iraqi war, which helped his campaign four years ago. In 2010, he ended the U.S. combat mission in Iraq. He increased the number of troops in […]
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Op/Ed: CP Democrat candidate endorsement
This opinion piece was written by Cal Poly Democrats President Kayla Clark I speak for the Cal Poly Democrats when I say we endorse President Barack Obama in this election against Governor Mitt Romney. There are several reasons behind this endorsement, starting with education, then health, women’s rights, the economy and foreign policy. On all […]
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Op/Ed: CP repubs candidate endorsement
This opinion piece was written by Cal Poly College Republicans Executive Board. This is perhaps the most important election of our lifetime. But this election is not just about Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. It’s about what we, as Americans, want our country to look like. Over the last four years, the federal government has intervened […]
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Romney might gain Hispanic support through VP
They have both said the same exact words repeatedly (“I will not be VP”) — sometimes casually, sometimes forcefully. But Marco Rubio and Susana Martinez both realize they would be an ideal counterweight to Romney’s ticket. As we all know, talk is cheap in the world of politics, and the weight of the upcoming election […]
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Live From New York: Retriever Derails Romney
There was once a time when the opening sketch of Saturday Night Live (SNL) comprised the most cutting-edge political and social satire to be found among the mainstream outlets of criticism. In a critical landscape, that was at least as divided and mistrusted as it appears now. Its voice was one of vicious truth-seeking at […]
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Here's to Mitt Romney
I would like to welcome my readers back to another season, another quarter of (slightly more expensive) education, another 11-week formality in our life-long intellectual chrysalis and indeed to another year entirely. For those of you who could not seem to muster as good enough riddance for 2011 as it likely deserved, I am wholly […]
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Perry implodes, but it hurts to laugh
I like to imagine that somewhere in the White House is a niche, an alcove or the tiniest of sanctuaries from the demands of politics and the press where the president can go to privately celebrate the major victories which seem to come less and less frequently to this administration as of late. This undisclosed, […]