Yale on the Trail

By Andrew Mangino
LINCOLN, Neb., 10:47 p.m. — Scott Kleeb GRD ‘06, the Yale scholar turned rancher turned politician, has been defeated by former Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns in his bid to succeed Chuck Hagel in the United States Senate, according to network projections.
At the Kleeb headquarters here, the news hardly generated a buzz, as Lisa […]

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By the Yale Daily News
NEW HAVEN, 10:16 p.m. — Former U.S. Agriculture Secretary and Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns has defeated Scott Kleeb GRD ‘06 in the race to succeed Chuck Hagel in the United States Senate.

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By Martine Powers
CHICAGO, 1:19 a.m. — As satellite uplink trucks from news stations worldwide
thronged alongside the entrance to the site of Tuesday’s Obama rally
in Grant Park, a leisurely ballad rang out into the night, accompanied
by the velvety strumming of a guitar.
“Oh, oh, oh…. Obama…
The Declaration of Independence… The Bill of Rights…
The U.S. Constitution…
Martin Luther King, […]

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By Paul Needham
PHOENIX, 9:15 p.m. — The Phoenix Sky Harber International Airport was something of a political battleground tonight.
Passengers on my US Airways flight didn’t even have to exit the jetway before they heard the rumble of political debate in the terminal. CNN was blaring with the sound of a McCain stump speech from earlier […]

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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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Dear YaleDailyNews.com readers,
As the historic 2008 presidential election nears, the Yale Daily News will offer in-depth, student-focused reporting on a scale unprecedented for a college newspaper. Just as the News deployed reporters to cover the caucuses and primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina and was one of only two Connecticut newspapers to report […]

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By Thomas Kaplan
DENVER, 1:27 p.m. — On Monday, in a recap of observations from my first full day at the Democratic National Convention, I wrote:
There is some good news: Yale did not name a provost today. When I was in New Hampshire, Yale made its big announcement about how it would spend more of its […]

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By Nick Bayless/Staff Photographer
Keeping in our apparent tradition of finding interesting characters to talk to before we even got to close the event we were heading for, Day Two started off on a wild foot. We initially started off from our hotel on foot, but after realizing the true distance to our destination (which […]

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By Nick Bayless/Staff Photographer
Traveling to such a political hot spot as South Carolina, I expected to run into fellow reporters covering the campaign trail. However, I wasn’t really expecting to run into them in line at “Five Guys Burgers” at 7:30 a.m. in the Washington, D.C., airport.
That’s where I met Kevin and Sreya, a […]

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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 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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NewsHour correspondent and Yale Corporation member Margaret Warner hard at work in the filing room on Saturday night.
MANCHESTER, N.H., 9:05 p.m. — Second pseudo-celebrity sighting of the night: Margaret Warner, a senior correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and, more importantly, a member of the elite Yale Corporation, the University’s highest governing body. (Unless […]

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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa, 3:40 a.m. - A person’s style of dress is a mode of communication.  Dress is an outlet by which a person says something about themselves.  Dress makes a statement.
Presidential hopeful John Edwards made his statement in the final days of the Iowa campaign.  His casual dress was in stark contrast to the formal wear donned by other […]

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NEW HAVEN, Conn., 8:44 p.m. — A long-debunked attack on Senator Barack Obama is making the rounds via e-mail in this area, with an unusual twist: it is now being attributed to a non-existent official at Yale.
The message — which was forwarded to the News on Wednesday night — has been passed around the Web […]

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CLIVE, Iowa, 2:46 PM - Sarah Coleman ’05 is a long way from home. The buildings are shorter, there’s hardly any traffic on the streets and the next door neighbor used to be Tom Tancredo’s campaign. This is no D.C. and this is no Brooklyn. This is Clive.

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