Article Browser: 2008 Elections

As a wise man once said, “If you and I always think the same thing, one of us has stopped thinking.” Yet thinking, or at least thinking independently, is apparently a huge liability in today’s Democratic Party.

Droopy-eyed Columbia Students for Obama returned from the Buckeye state early Wednesday morning after a long weekend of campaigning, traveling through the night so that one campaigner could make it back on time for a 9 am midterm. Despite the inopportune timing as academics anchor most students to their library desks, six students piled into a minivan last week and drove away from the Butler stacks to the Ohio haystacks.

With religiously-inspired fanfare, United States Sen. Barack Obama, D­-Ill. and CC ’83, appealed to his base at the Apollo Theater in Harlem Thursday night.

With the whole country getting an unusually early start on the 2008 presidential race, Columbia students are working hard to keep up with the action.