Yale on the Trail

By Zeke Miller
NEW HAVEN, 2:10 p.m. — In the month before Tuesday’s election, Connecticut registered an unprecedented number of new voters. Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz announced Monday that 134,502 residents registered to vote in the month of October, bringing the total of new voter registrations since January to over 300,000. Over one third […]

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Election ‘08 coverage from the print edition of the Yale Daily News:

Eli a longshot in Nebraska.  Scott Kleeb GRD ’06 faces an uphill battle in his attempt to win election to the United States Senate from a historically red state.  Senior reporter Andrew Mangino reports from Nebraska.
A trip to Palin country. Staff reporter Nicolas Niarchos […]

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NEW HAVEN, C.T., 12 a.m. — The Republican field moved one step close to completely gonzo this evening as former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney plowed his way to a victory in the Michigan GOP primary. Romney upped over McCain 38 to 31 percent in the fourth such nominating contest on the Republican side of the […]

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Explore today’s Yale Daily News for coverage of the 2008 presidential race, reported from the ground in New Hampshire, Iowa and Connecticut.

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By Thomas Kaplan/Staff Reporter

HAMPTON, N.H. — As Keri Lucas, a 32-year-old schoolteacher from Nottingham, N.H., trudged through the snow outside Winnacunnet High School here last Sunday night, she could barely contain her excitement.
Lucas and her boyfriend’s mother, Judy Barsosky, 66, another schoolteacher, drove for close to an hour for the privilege of standing in the […]

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By Victor Zapana/Staff Reporter 
Usually rendered irrelevant by its late primary date, Connecticut is poised this year to finally make a difference in the presidential nominating contests as one of 24 states voting on the Feb. 5 “Super-Duper Tuesday” — and local leaders are noticing.

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By Justin Kosslyn 
The first thing I noticed was poop on the floor. Dog poop. “I’m very sorry — they don’t usually do this!” Howard apologized, and promptly offered me a beer. Gripping my clipboard a little too tightly, I politely declined.

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By Amanda Eckerson ‘07
In the last few days of any campaign, regardless of your party, a virus passes around the volunteers and organizers on the ground. It isn’t the flu, because they’ve been working hard. It isn’t strep, because they’ve been phone banking for hours. It’s a vicious case of Gidoudavote (pronounced Get-Out-The-Vote). Common side […]

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By Gabe Goffman ‘10
The caucuses had finally arrived.
And although I had been anticipating this day, I felt more a sense of relief and exhaustion than excitement after spending a draining week in a stranger’s basement working for Barack Obama. I was nervous — not about the outcome, but because I would soon have to drive […]

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By Sam Schoenburg ‘11
I could not believe I was there. Standing with my friends, fellow interns on the campaign trail in Des Moines, Iowa, I was about to hear one of the most uplifting political speeches of my life from a man who, with his win in the Iowa caucuses just two hours old, was […]

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By David Broockman ‘11
The Left is accustomed to being labeled eternally idealistic not as an accolade, but an epithet. But every four years, the Democratic Party’s establishment enjoys labeling other Democrats naive. John Kerry said it about Howard Dean in 2004 and it stuck, leading to Dean’s demise. In this election cycle, Hillary Clinton, […]

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By Robert Nelb ‘08 
If there is an Achilles’ heel in Barack Obama’s rock star presidential campaign, it’s health care. Poll after poll shows that health care reform is one of the top issues on voters’ minds, but poll after poll gives Hillary Clinton, not Obama, a double-digit edge on her perceived ability to carry out […]

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By Alexandra Schwartz ‘09
When I was little, my mother gave me a book called “You Can Be Anything!” It had a charming gimmick: Two glossy cardboard cutouts of smiling children — one boy, one girl — were attached to the cover and could be inserted into specially made slots on each page. On the first […]

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JERSEY CITY, N.J., 4:22 p.m. — We’re in! All it took was flashing the YaleID. No questions, no being subjected to bomb-sniffing dogs.
First observation: There are nearly 100 video cameras here. Are there even that many stations?
The crowd, mostly, is young and Hispanic or black. “Fired up, ready to go!” they are chanting.
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JERSEY CITY, N.J., 4:00 p.m. — Reporters here are livid as a frantic Obama official tells us the fire marshall has said no more reporters can be let in. Well see about that!
A traveling television reporter from a major network calls it an “absolute nightmare.”
-The Yale Daily News

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