Election Archive
The Republicans’ decisive sweep of the 2014 midterm elections should be a wake up call for Democrats. There are lessons to be learned. People will not go to the polls and vote in large numbers if they do not have …
Decreased data storage costs, ever-rising mobile device ownership rates, and campaign assemblages’ unprecedented reliance on actual human beings to transmit personalized political messages to voters have all combined to position mobile data collection as an essential option and logical next step for …
The Southern Coalition for Social Justice celebrated National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) by hosting a concert and voter registration event with Rock the Vote, NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina, IgniteNC, and the Watauga County NAACP at Appalachian State University in Boone, …
Taking a moment aside from MLK’s birthday and the Presidential inauguration I want to bring forward a much discussed topic: Radical Social Work. My dislike for the term stems from the negative connotation I have against it. That doesn’t mean …
The Tea Party might have cost the Republican party everything. What was once seen as the revival of the conservative party might have gone too far, sending the Right, right off the cliff. Early on in the party’s movement, the …
The Big 9, The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases regarding same-sex marriage. Over the past few years all signs have pointed that this was an inevitable outcome of recent legalization of gay marriage in several US states. Although …
By: Courtney Kidd, LMSW SJS Staff Write Gov. Chris Christie might have to kiss any hopes of his future of higher office good-bye, and no it’s not for his political views. The New Jersey state governor has come under some …
Yes, I was skeptical just as you are! Nate Silver is a blogger for the NYT/FiveThirtyEight section. Apparently he the political world has been critical of the statistical methods used to predict the election. The criticism was not levied by obscure organizations, they include MSNBC, the LA …
America is a mess. I don’t know how anyone could come away from the election not believing so. I’m having a hard time deciding if this is still one nation united. The country is as far away from a middle ground as …
Puerto Rico has applied to become America’s 51st state which will be the first time since 1959 that the United States might acquire another state to the union. The road to statehood is not guaranteed, needing approval from Congress, and …
