Feb 5th, 2009
by Aaron Marks.
One of the more prevalent notions that I have read lately is that Republicans should focus on criticizing Democrats in Congress instead of President Obama due to the President’s sky high approval ratings. Conventional wisdom suggests that Republican attacks on an enormously popular Obama would likely backfire and instead hurt Republicans, while Democrats in an [...]
Nov 11th, 2008
by Abby Alger.
Apologies to Ms. Austen aside, I’d like to use my first post to answer Aaron’s original question: how can the Republican Party get back on track?
The first step is to figure out why we derailed. I know better and brighter minds have done this throughout the blogosphere, but I like to identify problems before I [...]
Nov 10th, 2008
by Brad Tidwell.
Ironically, this came right before the election, and I had no time to put it up before the election, so now I will try to post it posthumously as it were. I’ve had a little trouble with logging in, and thus the posts have been slow, but this was a semi-relevant essay for a class, written [...]
Nov 4th, 2008
by Aaron Marks.
I just finished voting at my polling place in the city of Pittsburgh. I live in what you can definitely call a college town – immediately adjacent to the University of Pittsburgh campus. The line was about an hour long, consisted of roughly 75-100 people, and was probably 50-60% college students. I first voted at [...]
Nov 3rd, 2008
by Aaron Marks.
At this point, I don’t think that any of us can effectively predict what the outcome of tomorrow’s elections will be. Quite frankly, I’m not even sure that we’ll know the who the next President of the United States is going to be for many hours, if not days, after polls close. That said, it [...]
Oct 31st, 2008
by Brad Tidwell.
In the days leading up to the election, a lot of us are stressing out, trying to get the last bits of projects together and trying find ways to help our candidates out on the local, state or national level. Focus like this makes it harder at times for us to come back to the [...]
