Opinion
Pennsylvania: A Swing State No More
Like Ahab and his relentless, doomed quest for the white whale, the Republican Party is fixated on a lost cause in Pennsylvania. This month, the allure of the state’s 20 electoral votes once again pulled at the GOP’s time and…
They Said We Couldn’t
Throughout the course of the 2012 Election Cycle, the pundits continued to predict that student turnout would be lower than the 2008 election. They claimed that students were less involved, less excited, running on empty. But on November 6th we…
The War on Taxes
With the constant talk of the 99 percent, the 1 percent, and now, the 47 percent, income tax policy has taken center stage during this campaign cycle. The Republican Party calls on Reagan’s presidency to defend its proposals for lower tax…
Understanding Politics
The Priming Effect in Political Campaigns The psychological effect of priming may decide our next President. With little public awareness, this psychological tool of implanting an idea via implicit visual or verbal device is used extensively in political campaigns. The…
EURO-Trashed?
Dear Readers: The ancient Greek historian Thucydides wrote: “War is a violent teacher.” Almost 2,500 years later, the two world wars of the twentieth century ravaged Europe in merely three decades’ time. From the rubble emerged a generation of Europeans…