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What Issues Are Motivating Students in 2026?
Mason Voters Share Top Concerns By: Tiffany Boggs, Mason Votes Contributor Student Media conducted an exit poll survey of student and community voters outside the […]
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Early In-Person Voting Has Begun
Vote Early in Virginia Until October 31st By: Rithvik Hari, Mason Votes Contributor You don’t have to wait until Nov. 3 to vote. Early in-person […]
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Can I Still Vote by Mail? (Yes!)
SCOTUS Blocks New Restrictions for 2026 Elections By: Andrew Nick, Mason Votes Contributor There’s been a lot of confusion lately about mail-in ballots, but voters […]
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Meet the Candidates 2026: VA 11th Congressional District
Three Options for Fairfax Voters By: Tiffany Boggs, Mason Votes Contributor With the 2026 midterm elections less than 40 days away, voters in Virginia’s 11th […]
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Where Can I Vote as a Mason Student?
If You Live On Campus in Fairfax, You Can Vote @ Merten Hall! By: Erica Munisar, Mason Votes Contributor Mason students living on the Fairfax […]
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Campus Groups Collaborate on National Voter Registration Day
Are YOU Registered to VOTE? By: Breeze Lawless, Mason Votes Contributor In honor of National Voter Registration Day and Disability Voting Rights Week, student organizations […]
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Student Reactions to Final Debate
Connect2Mason‘s Video Editor, Trevor DeSaussure, was on the scene at the the final Debate Watch Party, Monday, October 22, held in the Johnson Center Atrium to ask for student reactions to the final presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUPXiA0L6Jo&feature=share&list=UU1TuP1898FOdPrvng_HGDCA[/youtube]
Higher Education: Candidates Clash on Key Issue
Job creation, health care, and women’s rights seem to be hot topics of discussion this presidential election but rest assured, candidates have not forgotten about a key issue on every college students mind; higher education. President Obama and Governor Romney both broadly support the expansion of higher education yet hold very different viewpoints on how...
Opinion: One in the Same
The objective of the final presidential debate was to determine if Governor Romney or President Obama scored higher on the “ability to seem like the Commander in Chief” test. And while Romney was not as bellicose as he was in the second debate, he undeniably received a lower grade, unable to hide his discomfort discussing...
Final Presidential Debate Tonight
Tonight is the third and final Presidential debate of the 2012 election cycle. The debate will be emanating from Boca Raton, Florida and will focus on foreign policy. After the scuffle the two candidates had in the last debate over Libya and the September 11th assassination of United States Ambassador Chris Stevens, look for a...
Third Presidential Debate Watch Party Tonight
Tonight at 9 p.m. Mason Votes will be hosting the third presidential debate watch party in the JC Atrium. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend. Leading up to the election it is important for all voters to stay tuned into the debates. Mason Votes hopes these debate watch parties will help students...
Electoral College Analysis (10/22/2012)
Just 15 days remain until Election Day, and the race to gain 270 electoral votes has shifted since our last analysis. Back 12 days ago, the key states to watch were Florida, Virginia, and Ohio. If Romney were to win all three he would be just 4 votes short of winning the Presidency. If Obama...
President Obama Returns to Mason and Talks Women’s Issues
For the second time in less than a month President Barack Obama held a grassroots rally at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. The President talked jobs and the economy, but spent a majority of his stump speech talking about women’s issues. He also debuted a new line of attack against Mitt Romney for his...
Mason Votes 1-on-1 with Cecile Richards
Mason Votes caught up with Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, after President Obama’s grassroots rally at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. [youtube]http://youtu.be/na60mZPBY6U[/youtube]
Stein Gets Arrested
Photo by: Mary Altaffer/AP Photo [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnam1yi5bVs[/youtube] A video of the Green Party’s Presidential Candidate, Jill Stein and her running mate, Cheri Honkala being arrested as they attempted to enter the grounds of the Presidential Debate on Tuesday, has gone viral. Stein, along with the other third party candidates were not permitted to participate in the...
Harvard Institute of Politics releases Fall 2012 National Poll on young voters
[youtube]http://youtu.be/bs70ivV-HOU[/youtube] Cambridge, MA – A new national poll of America’s 18- to 29- year olds by Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, finds President Barack Obama continuing to widen the gap between himself and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney leading by a nineteen-percentage point margin (55%-36%) among...
Flash Lecture Today
GMU Student Government sponsored a flash lecture today, Oct. 17, 2012, on the economy and the election. The flash lecture was debate style on the Johnson Center North Plaza that began at 1:30pm between Professors Caplan and Pearlstein.
Closing the Gender Gap
Photo by: USA Today It is not unknown that President Obama’s performance at the first debate was less than stellar; substantially decreasing the comfortable lead he once held in the polls. In a USA Today/ Gallup poll released yesterday, it became evident that Governor Romney’s rise can be much attributed to women voters, particularly in...
