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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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Mason’s Ongoing Commitment to Civic Engagement
Vice President Rose Pascarell Reflects on Mason’s Legacy of Empowering Student Voters By: Saahiti Kiran Chamala, Mason Votes Managing Editor On November 3rd, Mason Votes […]
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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...
Preview of the Second Presidential Debate
Tonight at Hofstra University the two candidates for President will face off in what could be characterized as the most anticipated rematches in modern debate history. Coming off of a less than stellar performance in the first debate, President Obama will be attempting to rebound and seize back the momentum he allowed Mitt Romney to...
GMU Chapter of NAACP: “What’s Your Stance?” Series
Photo by Frank Ross| BigGovernment.com On Thursday, October 4, the day after the first presidential debate the George Mason chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) held their first segment of their “What’s Your Stance” series leading up to the November 6 Presidential Election. Mason students met with Mike Everest,...