Month: November 2012

We frustrated Republican voters can learn something important from this Tuesday’s election by asking ourselves a question: are we more disappointed that President Obama won or that Gov. Romney lost? The day before the election I received an email from “Mitt Romney” with the subject line, “Brett, I need your vote.” It sounds funny now,...

President Obama’s win on Tuesday is a historic, left-handed compliment to the 43rd president. He’s the first incumbent to be re-elected with such high unemployment averages and low approval ratings since FDR. Despite the best efforts of Gov. Romney, Rep. Paul Ryan, and millions of supporters, Obama has become the third consecutive president to win...

Throughout the campaign, we heard continuously that the race was about the economy.  But if that were true, why did America re-elect a president with unemployment at 8 percent and the national debt over $16 trillion? My suspicion: this race was not about the economy. The results hinged instead on capturing the votes of special...

We may break out the Dom Perignon soon, because as Napoleon said once, “In victory, you deserve champagne, in defeat, you need it.” Tuesday’s presidential election stung. The Collegian editorial board disagrees on politics (mostly thanks to our hipster contingent), but not a single one of us wanted to see President Barack Obama win re-election....

The city income tax proposal didn’t pass. In fact, it got beat bad—712 votes for and 1,720 against. Unfortunately, the city still needs $39 million it doesn’t have to repair its roads. The city income tax would have established a mechanism through which the city could stockpile a road rebuilding fund. But with the proposal’s...