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-17 posts tagged "vote"
Isabella Volmert | Monday, November 2, 2020
While Election Day is tomorrow, as of Sunday afternoon a record 93 million Americans have already voted, which is two-thirds of the entire voting population of the 2016 election. The New York Times reported the country is estimated to surpass 150 million votes for the first time in American history. The Observer recently polled its followers
Clark Bowden | Thursday, October 15, 2020
Donald Trump may be one of the best things to happen to America. Now for those of you who have read my columns before (a number I’m fairly certain I could count on two hands), you know me to be a left wing bleeding heart liberal … and you’d be correct. So my opening sentence
Crystal Ramirez | Tuesday, October 13, 2020
It was during Bernie Sanders’ initial run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 that I became better acquainted with the term democratic socialist, and was intrigued by the idea of a socialist government. Bernie’s platform was especially appealing to an individual like me, a middle to lower class college student, in debt with no
Maeve Filbin | Thursday, August 13, 2020
I realized I forgot a few things at home: toothpaste, Scotch tape, my rain coat. After six months of living at home, packing for college was a major extraction effort. Assembling my dorm necessities felt like climbing out from under a rock. What else did I need to re-enter the real world outside of quarantine?
Gina Twardosz | Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Inspired by the many women running for office across the nation, Saint Mary’s junior Leticia Torres decided she wanted to run for office in her native Marshall County in the 2018 midterm elections. On Tuesday, when Marshall County voters head to the polls, her name will be on the ballot. “You know Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from
Patrick McKelvey | Tuesday, November 6, 2018
You should vote today. Today is Election Day. Finally. I don’t know about you, but I was getting a little tired of Senator Joe Donnelly’s wood chopping ad that airs every 20 minutes. I didn’t want to see another second of some negative ad campaign about candidates who hate guns or want to cut your
Observer Editorial Board | Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Voting matters, and your vote counts. On Midterms Day 2018, The Observer Editorial Board urges you, reader, to be a voter. This year’s Midterm elections arrive on the heels of some of the most polarized years in American politics, and the national divisiveness over politics has echoed throughout our smaller tri-campus community. Two weeks ago,
John Sitter | Thursday, November 1, 2018
An old Election Day joke typically features an upper-crust woman from New England who is asked whether she has cast her ballot yet. She replies loftily, “Oh, I never vote. It only encourages them.” An unfunny counterpart appeared recently in a New York Times story about non-voters, in which a West Virginia woman explains why
Martha Reilly and Tom Naatz | Monday, March 26, 2018
Across all 50 states, young leaders and activists helped to organize the first “March for our Lives,” aimed at enacting gun control reforms in the wake of the Valentine’s Day shooting in Parkland, Fla. One of these marches was held Saturday afternoon in downtown South Bend, where students from Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s marched
Letter to the Editor | Monday, March 26, 2018
One month ago, I donned Lewis Halls’ beloved shag-chicken suit and spent the better part of an afternoon hooking passersby into conversation with promises of free coffee, bad puns and a general understanding of how our federal government spends money on an annual basis. With my poultry attire as the attention grabber, I utilized the