Presidential Elections

Growing up around Washington, D.C. has made Annie Minoff, CC ’11, cynical about government. While she is fresh on the scene as a first-time voter, Minoff’s perspective on politics has already begun to wilt.

Gathering around a TV with snacks and politically inclined friends, members of the Broadway Democrats crowded into an Upper West Side apartment Thursday night in the hope of choosing their nominee.

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.

The global landscape today is much more rocky and uncertain than it seemed eight years ago. American forces remain stuck in Iraq, Iran continues to develop nuclear weapons and threaten the stability of the rest of the Middle East, genocide continues in Darfur, and China and India continue to grow rapidly. The way the presidential candidates propose to deal with these issues and the differences of their policies are therefore extremely important.