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-32 posts tagged "2020 election"
Sam Godinez | Tuesday, November 8, 2022
On Tuesday, Nov. 8, the midterm elections will be held for all 435 seats of the House of Representatives, 35 out of 100 U.S. Senate seats and thousands of local elections in each state. With many students voting for the first time, the midterm elections are an indication of where the nation will head towards.
Maggie Eastland | Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Despite voting challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Notre Dame students flooded the absentee polls in the 2020 presidential election. Even though the majority live outside Indiana, students secured absentee ballots with help from campus civic engagement groups like ND Votes. According to a Center for Social Concerns (CSC) research report published January, 71.4% of
BridgeND | Wednesday, January 19, 2022
You won’t get very far scrolling through the Twitter accounts of politicians on either side of the political aisle before seeing trigger phrases like “Republicans don’t want …” or “Democrats are trying to …” It is clear that politics, especially on social media, has become a game of trying to incite heavy emotions and play
Maggie Eastland | Monday, November 1, 2021
When Notre Dame English professor John Duffy learned last August that the University received donations from The Napa Institute and the Koch brothers, he raised concerns to fellow faculty members and later to the Arts and Letters College Council. “My view is that faculty shouldn’t discover these things, for example these particular donations, in a
Aidan O'Malley | Sunday, October 24, 2021
Sorry for the delay, folks. Am I flattering myself in thinking that anyone was actually waiting for this? Probably, but I don’t mind. While I hope my CIFF coverage over the course of fall break has expanded your watchlist — or maybe even encouraged you to participate in the local arts in the future —
Bella Laufenberg | Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Former Mayor of San Antonio and Obama Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro discussed former President Trump and President Biden’s treatment of immigrants in a fireside talk Tuesday. Castro was invited to Notre Dame in a joint endeavor between Notre Dame College Democrats and the Institute for Latino Studies (ILS). He entertained members
Eva Analitis | Tuesday, September 21, 2021
“I don’t do politics.” Nowadays, this short sentence sparks fierce backlash from some, seeming like a spineless statement of privilege. In contrast, it garners nods of agreement from others who wish to stay out of the tangles of the political jungle. I used to be a member of the first group. It seemed frustrating that
Blake Ziegler | Wednesday, November 11, 2020
After a tumultuous campaign amidst a global pandemic, Joe Biden was elected the next President of the United States. Americans should be proud that despite the challenge of COVID-19, our democracy still stands. Despite delays in counting votes, we should applaud ourselves for voting in record numbers. Yet, the results of this election still demonstrate
Justice Mory | Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Donald Trump has gone from unprecedented to un-presidented. As we have all seen, former Vice President Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 US presidential election. What’s next? In this column, I will try to shed some light on what we can expect going forward. The Electoral College The Electoral College will convene
Serena Zacharias | Wednesday, November 4, 2020
With several states still counting ballots, no clear winner has been determined and the 2020 presidential election is expected to continue for days. Trump secured the electoral votes of battleground states including Florida, Ohio and Iowa early Wednesday, but a number of other key states — Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan — are still too