People never change. When people claim, “I’m a changed man” or “I’m a changed woman”, I quickly pay no attention to it because I strongly believe that people never change. Read more...
I’m from Richmond but for the past 3 years I’ve been leaving in Rodeo, I had to change schools and leave all my friends. Read more...
The November elections are just around the corner. According to Bakari Kitwana of the Huffington Post, the 18 - 29 age demographic will be extremely important once again. However, he makes the argument, “Over the last two years President Barack Obama did not fulfill his campaign commitments to the 14 million plus young voters so crucial to his 2008 victory.”
He explains that the youth sent Obama to the White House to make change happen, and now they have to decide if he’s done enough. Are the changes to health care, student loans, the economy, and the war in Iraq big enough signs of change?
While we can’t predict which way the elections will go, we can see the political energy still surging through young people around the country.
The College Republicans National Committee (CRNC) has been actively recruiting new Republican voters. “We’ve put field representatives in Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Ohio to work with the local college representatives to recruit, train, and engage college students for statewide victory purposes,” said Rob Lockwood, Communications Director for the CRNC.
Lockwood said they focused their recruiting efforts in these battleground states and have succeeded in recruiting 25,200 new college Republicans in these states alone. He said young voters are especially important to this election. “It’s been proven that the college years are the most formative in shaping a political opinion. Because young people voted in record numbers in 2008, it’s important to get them to the polls again. We believe young people voted for the power of personality in 2008. They were energized. They voted for hope and change. However, neither of those has been implemented. The only change they got is massive debt on their tab, in exchange for short term political gain,” said Lockwood.
Likewise, the College Democrats of America (CDA) are busy recruiting young people to vote. Alejandra Salinas, President of the CDA said they have targeted certain states. “In Texas, we only had eight chapters last year. This year we have 45,” she said. She also cited the numbers of young voters in 2008 as a powerful sign. “We all learned in 2008 that the power is with the people who show up to vote. We elected democratic people who stood up for student rights issues such as credit card reform, health care reform, and student loan reform. These changes have improved the lives of young people across the country,” she said.
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A couple of weeks ago a few of my friends and I decided to try out for the softball team. At the first day of try-outs the coaches seemed very rude—they didn’t introduce themselves or ask us for our names—they just ordered us to “run!” I wouldn’t say I did terribly but I was definitely not going to make varsity. That was cool though because I was content with being on junior varsity.
On the other hand, one of my friends was an excellent player. She caught all of the fly-balls they sent our way with ease, they even made her play second base. She hardly let anything get past her, I was in awe at how good she was-but then again, she has played softball before. At least if I didn’t make the team I’d be happy that she did. Read more...
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