Column: US elections take too long
Congratulations, America: You’ve now survived 11 months of campaigning. Now you only have a little less than nine to go until the people finally vote for the next president.
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Congratulations, America: You’ve now survived 11 months of campaigning. Now you only have a little less than nine to go until the people finally vote for the next president.
Last week, Michael Parks was briefly slated for a runoff election for student body president before a slew of elections violations brought him down. While one of those violations is being appealed, I want to step back and look at the implications of the election and, more importantly, what it says about the nation’s political system at large.
In the Feb. 15 paper, we stated that Marco Rubio has been a senator since 2009. He has actually been a senator since 2011. We regret this error.
I get asked a fair bit why we never seem to get good presidential candidates. The answer is probably that almost no one can stand tall with partisan forces determined to rip them apart. Even good, fairly reasonable men such as John Kerry, John McCain and Mitt Romney have been torn apart and demonized in recent cycles. But this time things feel a little different. We might really have fields of bad candidates.
Some facts about Trump not meant to run online.
If you hang around enough Christian conservative web pages long enough, you will inevitably stumble across stories of oppression regarding the LGBT community. In the land of Christian conservatives, the real oppression in America is the horde of gays coming for Evangelical freedoms.
The Daily Gamecock will not be endorsing candidates in the 2016 Republican, Democratic and Libertarian primaries. The likelihood of coming to a meaningful staff consensus on these issues is small, and that is definitely not a bad thing. Diversity in political views makes this campus and nation stronger rather than weaker.
Over the weekend, news came out from various anonymous sources that Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, is preparing a run for the presidency. This news doesn’t mean the bid is certain; the media was equally sure that Vice President Joe Biden would enter the fray last year. But it does mean that there are now two New York City billionaires threatening to run third party if the primaries don’t go the way they would like.
Last semester, the Republican primary race took a turn for the strange and hateful. Then it took another turn. And another. And another. And another…
In many residence halls, visitors of the opposite sex must leave after a certain hour. Nowhere on campus are men and women allowed to share a room. These are simple and seldom-questioned facts of campus life. There is also no reason at all for these policies.
The attacks in Paris are being described, as almost all terror attacks invariably are, as senseless violence. It is very easy to do so. Scores of people died in an event that we can neither condone nor easily grasp.
In wake of SC Pride, I wanted to take some space to answer a seemingly simple but frighteningly complex question: How many queer people are there in America?
Confession time: I was one of the approximately one percent of Democrats who wanted (President) Jim Webb to become our next Commander in Chief. Admittedly, we disagree on many things. Climate change tops the list. But, he brought realism to a field sorely lacking it.
Responding to the Syrian refugee crisis, Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson argued that we shouldn’t take more Syrian Muslim refugees because we don’t want another Boston Marathon bomber. It’s just the latest in a long line of prominent Republicans using double standards over terrorist threats.
On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the right of same-sex couples to marry was enshrined in the Constitution. No sooner had the ruling passed than a litany of presidential candidates vowed to fight it, civil servants and judges considered defiance and rallies were planned to express disapproval. Two of those candidates recently headlined one such rally in Columbia that showed the increasingly blurred line between politics and religion. One of the last civil servants holding out was imprisoned shortly after the Sept. 3 Weekender went to print and released the week of Sept. 14.
Ben Turner: Yes
A giant panda at the National Zoo gave birth to twins on Saturday, earning national headlines.
Griffin Hobson: Yes
Watching the rhetoric of the presidential candidates, you would get the impression that it was a race between Democrats proposing bold new ideas and Republicans trying to stop said policies.
Scott Walker’s message is simple: he’s a political outsider who beat down the unions and was elected three times in a blue state. The problem is that the narrative gets a bit more complicated the closer you look.