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AMSTERDAM — Mariska Majoor blends in perfectly with the rest of the pedestrians and bikers on Amsterdam’s crowded streets. She looks like a typical Dutch woman: Her dark hair is back in a ponytail and she wears simple jeans, sneakers and a huge knit
Younger generations have historically voted in fewer numbers, but the recent elections have witnessed a climb in young voter turnout. President Barack Obama executed a campaign that swallowed voters into the political sphere, and young voter turnout has increased in 2008 and 2012.
Florida was considered an imperative state to win, but it wasn’t until four full days aftebuy cialisr the election that the state finally announced its results. President Barack Obama carried 50 percent of the popular vote, while Republican candidate Mitt Romney took 49.1 percent. Obama’s margin of victory over Romney in the electoral college was large, with 332 to 206 electoral votes, respectively. It's important to probe Florida’s hold up, because there appears to be some structural issues within the voting system, said Jason Husser, assistant director of the Elon University Poll. Florida is also difficult to call as quickly as other states, such as California, because the results were so close, he said. “My sense is that Florida was the one surprise in the typical averages from polls,” he said. This year, pre-election polls were extremely accurate in predicting the ultimate results. Before Election Day, polls suggested Romney would be up just 0.7 percent in Florida, a number Husser said he considered meaningless. “At that level, surveys aren’t an indicator,” he said. This is the narrowest presidential victory in the last three presidential elections in Florida. In 2008, Obama beat out Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., by 2.5 percent in the Sunshine State, and in 2004, there was a 5 percent difference between incumbent President George W. Bush and challenger Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.. This year, Obama won by slightly less than 74,000 votes, which is comparable to half the population of Alamance County. Florida’s voting practices and regulations have been under a great amount of scrutiny, especially since the 2000 presidential election, when Bush defeated his opponent, Al Gore, by less than 600 votes, and allegations of miscounts caused weeks of tension and recounting before the United States Supreme Court finally called an end to it. “I find it somewhat humorous since we messed up a couple years ago,” said junior Hunt Cable, a Florida citizen. Shortly after Election Day, Florida Gov. Rick Scott issued an order to investigate what happened on Election Day when it took some voters more than four hours to cast a ballot. He has yet to speak about the excessive time the counting process seemed to take.
More than 60 years after the start of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the battle rages on. Recently, a cease-fire was called after a series of attacks that lasted eight days, and Israeli and Egyptian officials began discussing the parameters of the
BARCELONA, SPAIN – An estimated one million citizens in Barcelona participated in the nationwide general strike, called 14n, on Wed, Nov 13.
David Pirtle always thought the homeless were people to fear. He learned the hard way that the only thing that sets homeless people apart from others is simply a home.
Cristina Cartagena is a first year student from Puerto Rico and looks forward to what will happen if Puerto Rico becomes an American state.
Last week's Presidential election led a lot of people to take to social media to express their opinions.
Drums, food and a variety of market items filled McKinnon Hall at Elon University on Monday night.
In honor of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, Campus Kitchen and Elon Volunteers are co-hosting a series of events November 12-16 in an effort to shed light on common misconceptions about homelessness, and introduce Elon University students to the ways they can help the homeless in the community.
One day after the presidential election, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd offered a psychoanalysis of the nation's leaders, relating the political arena to a theatrical display of family drama.
The economy was the deciding factor in the presidential election for many Alamance County voters. But despite their support for Republican candidate Mitt Romney, President Barack Obama has been re-elected. He lost North Carolina, but did not lose the election.
Balance of power within the Senate and House of Representatives has remained the same following the election Nov. 6. Democrats continue to hold a majority in the Senate with 53 seats, while Republicans maintain a majority in the House with 232 seats.*
Political ads and campaigning for the Nov. 6 election have been ongoing for several months, but the weekend prior to the election, as well as Election Day itself, showed the hardest efforts made by both Democratic and Republican supporters in Alamance County.
Correspondents’ Corner is a place for The Pendulum’s team of international reporters to reflect on their time abroad and share stories about the new cultures they are experiencing.
It's been an exhausting, devastating week for many in the Northeast United States. Superstorm Sandy blew in last Monday night killing 111 people across 10 states. The storm wiped away many homes, the majority in New York and New Jersey. Thousands on the East Coast are still struggling to get by after the storm.
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — I knew when I decided to go abroad this semester that voting absentee would be part of the experience.
SUDETENLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC — I remember sitting at my cramped desk early one morning in Copenhagen attempting to wrap my head around the concept of the Sudetenland Transfers. Someone from the back of the class compared the region to fat being trimmed off a piece of pork, metaphorically perfect in its historical brutality. I knew the numbers, the outline on a map and I could rattle off a basic description of what happened. In any other course setting, I would have been done, ready to move on to a new topic. Instead, I boarded a plane for the Czech Republic and a few days later found myself in the Sudetenland region surrounding the country.