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2025 Election Day Activities @ Merten Hall
On-Campus Voters Make Their Voices Heard in Off-Year Election Photos/Video by: Joylin Ting, Mason Votes Contributor The Mason community turned out to Merten Hall […]
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How Did Mason Vote in 2025?
510 In-Person Votes Cast on Election Day and 26.25% Overall Voter Turnout Reported at Fairfax’s University Precinct Student Media conducted exit polling outside Merten Hall […]
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Student Organizations Pack Merten Hall on Election Day 2025
Partisan and Nonpartisan Groups Provided Treats for On-Campus Voters at Merten Hall By: Rithvik Hari, Mason Votes Contributor Partisan and nonpartisan student organizations lined the […]
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LIVE Election Updates: 2025
Mason Votes will be providing LIVE election night updates throughout the evening, so keep refreshing this post for the latest news and results! By: Saahiti […]
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GOP Candidates Make Final Push in Manassas, VA
Virginia’s Republican Candidates Host Final Campaign Event of 2025 Election By: Rithvik Hari, Fourth Estate Staff Writer This story was originally published on gmufourthestate.com. Fourth […]
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GMU Chapter of NAACP: “What’s Your Stance?” Series Oct.24 and Oct.11
The GMU chapter of NAACP has hosted two more “What’s Your Stance?” Series events in October. Below are coverage of each event: Event – October 24, 2012 On October 24, 2012 the GMU NAACP chapter continued their “What’s Your Stance” series introducing education issues and policies. Their guest speaker for the evening was Tina Hone,...
Electoral College Analysis: Six Days Out
With just 6 days until Americans go to the polls, the electoral map is more congested and confusing than ever. Polls are all over the place and the race seems to be tightening everywhere. Let’s go through it. Using the map from Real Clear Politics, there are 11 “toss up” states. That distinction is given...
Rommey’s Deception
Photo by: lepesunset on flickr.com Last week, the Romney/ Ryan campaign once again proved that their primary strategy for this election is deception. At a campaign rally in Ohio, a key battleground state and a major beneficiary of the 2009 auto bailout, Governor Romney informed the crowd of a story he had read earlier that...
Are You Election Ready?
Check your Virginia voting registration status here: http://www.sbe.virginia.gov/Index.html Election Day is fast approaching, it is important to come up with your voting plan for the election. Make sure to go to the Virginia Registration Lookup Tool to confirm that your registration information is correct. Check now before Election Day (Nov. 6, 2012). Make sure that...
U.Va.-GMU Poll Shows Tight Race for Virginia’s 13 Electoral Votes
A University of Virginia/George Mason University poll shows Mitt Romney with a slim 1 percentage point lead over President Barack Obama in Virginia. The poll showed 46 percent of registered voters are supporting Mitt Romney with 45 percent supporting President Obama. The poll also found that 2 percent are still undecided and another 2 percent...
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...