SUNY students “Rocked the Vote”
More than 16,000 State University of New York students registered to vote in last week’s elections, according to United University Professions, a union of academic and professional faculty at SUNY. UUP joined with the New York Public Research Interest Group, New York State United Teachers, the SUNY Student Assembly and SUNY Rock the Vote in the six week “Voice Your Vote Challenge.” The registration drive was at SUNY four-year, post-graduate and community colleges.
Top honors for registering the greatest percentage of the student body go to Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, where 396 of the school’s 1,273 students registered. SUNY at Albany had the most students register—2,402, or nearly 14 percent of students.
Numbers from other campuses include:
—New Paltz, more than 1,200
—Binghamton, more than 1,700
—Cortland, nearly 1,400.
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and sarah sarah sarah in an interview with gretta gretta
gretta.has made it clear that if “God” gives her the greenlight she will go through any crack in the door
in 2012…and that is exactly why the republican party
will be wandering in the wilderness until guys like
limbough are no longer relevant
And if McCain had promised free beer on all campuses, he would have received 95% of their votes.
Well ed 1 that would have been easy since his wife
owns the budweiser franchise in all of arizona..but
that is not the point…change is in the air….
kids who are going to fight our wars are entitled to
vote (and for my money entitled to drink)...but
Obama’s appeal was to suburban upscale professional
people and McCain was stuck with appalcian downscale
undereducated white voters..look at the map..78% of
all counties voted for obama .the only counties for
mccain were in a very small swath from louisiana
to west virginian..rural., white, and not college
educated..frankly I have always preferred the aristocracy
of the rich and educated but that is a silly notion
Much of what you say may be right, but suburban, upscale professional people, rich and educated, do not, as a rule send or allow their kids to “fight our wars.” Not any more. Without the “uneducated” rurals, we’d have Eight- hundred Generals, ten thousand tanks, and twelve soldiers. :)
Ed’s right. And The Consultant and his comrades in one segment of the Republican establishment are scared silly of Sarah Palin. The fight is on for control of the Republican party.
Although…why anyone would listen to the Consultant is beyond me. He trashed Palin from Day One and even voted for Obama. His comments about Republicans should be taken with a truckload of salt. Many would say the Consultant has little, if any, “standing” left when it comes to Republicans.
And why, Counsultant, are you backing DiFiore? The Republicans have a candidate for D.A.—name of Donovan, I believe. Oh, that’s right—you’re not really a Republican anymore, are you?
Correction…Republican Dan Schorr is going to run vs. DiFiore.
first lets see how the primary goes..on that one
I can take a position…then we will talk about
the general election..but as between democrats
in a primary, a republican can have a position
right?
Jiminy..I will make you a bet..that the conservatives
in the party ultimate decide that they need to stay
in the middle rather than being purists…michael
smirkonish a republican radio talk show host from
philadelphia pointed out that to exclude tom ridge
from VP simply because he was pro choice makes
the party only reasonate with a very small swath
of the country in the rural south…that is not
how to build a winning coalition…you are never going
to attract moderates and young people to a party
that revolves around socially conservative issues
like abortion and gay rights…it is simply not going
to happen
I agree, Consultant. By all means take a position on the Democratic primary. DiFiore is the right choice there, obviously. Most everyone knows about Zherka, Blassberg and Castro. To me, and although there are other reasons he shouldn’t win the primary—all by itself his close connection with Zherka and Blassberg disqualifies Castro right there.
On your other comment, several days ago I posted that I thought the conservatives ought to be willing to “adjust” somewhat. I still maintain that opinion, and still think they might be willing to do so on a few issues. I think there is a way to do so without just folding the tent.
The JN should restore that “recent comments” feature on the right side of the page. It is user friendly, and can save a lot of time for readers and posters.
Jiminy – Thanks for pointing the “recent comments” issue out; apparently it got lost in our blogging software update yesterday. I alerted the tech folks; looks like it is fixed now.
Cheers,
Liz Anderson
Thank you to both Jiminy and Liz,
I too was perplexed by the absence of the “recent comments.”
Kudos to Jiminy for pointing it out and kudos to Liz Anderson for getting the tech folks to fix it!
I wanted to comment and thank the author, good stuff