Election News Archive
The Election News Archive on Mason Votes serves as a comprehensive collection of original reporting produced by student journalists covering local, state, and national elections. This page brings together past articles, live updates, and on-the-ground coverage, preserving the evolving political landscape through the lens of the Mason community. As a nonpartisan platform dedicated to informing and engaging student voters, the archive highlights key moments, perspectives, and campus involvement across election cycles, offering a lasting record of civic participation and student-driven storytelling.
Obama Registers 60 Students to Vote a Day at Mason
At George Mason University, volunteers for Presidential Nominee Barack Obama’s campaign are registering 50-60 students to vote everyday. “Being a recent college graduate myself, I know a lot of students forget to register or forget to register in the right place. I want to make sure everyone gets a chance to register to vote in...Continue reading→
“The Future of Food” and “Trashed” Showing at Mason
The new Student Media film club and Mason Votes is showing “The Future of Food” and “Trashed” this Wednesday from 7:30 – 9:30 p.m at Harris Theatre. “The Future of Food” is a documentary filmed on location in the United States, Canada and Mexico which investigates the distribution of unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods. It...Continue reading→
I Have Foreign Policy Experience, Once I Refueled in Ireland
In what the Washington Post‘s E.J. Dionne is calling “a larger narrative of deception,” it appears the McCain-Palin camp has made an informed and conscientious decision to keep right on passing the American public half-truths, grandiose exaggerations, and claims approaching the realm of untruth, if not actually breaching the border between fact and fiction. The...Continue reading→
Why I Love Politics, Even When I’m Sickened By It
Here are some words I never thought would ever come out of my mouth: I love The View… and here’s why. What a fantastic woman, that Barbara Walters, requesting details and a little clarity from John McCain who seems more than willing to be tossed about on the seas of Celebrity as Sarah Palin quickly...Continue reading→
Mason Votes Interviews Bob Barr
Content Editor Christian Yingling interviews Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr after he spoke at George Mason University.
Bob Barr Speaks at Mason
Libertarian Presidential Candidate and former U.S. Representative Bob Barr spoke today in town hall format at George Mason University. An intimate crowd listened intently in Student Union Building I’s Patriot Lounge to hear Barr highlight the positives of a third party choice and the high level of dissatisfaction that many Americans hold for the current...Continue reading→
Is Palin Confused?
Yesterday Palin linked the 9/11 terrorist attacks to… Iraq. Even George W. Bush seems to have a better grasp on the whole situation. As Anne E. Kornblut writes for the Washington Post: “[A] view once promoted by Bush administration officials, has since been rejected even by the president himself.” Hmm. It’s also not good to...Continue reading→
What’s Going on Right Now? Friday
College Republicans Sign-Up Students On Campus
Mason’s Republicans and Democrats Take on the Issues
Content Editor Christian Yingling facilitates a roundtable discussion between George Mason University’s College Republicans and College Democrats. Who is the best candidate for students? What’s going on in local elections? Student experts explore the answers.
Palin is my Homegirl.
Barack Hussein Obama does have lots and lots of experience. He does! We promise! I mean, he was a senator and a lawyer and was a community organizer after college. Well, okay, maybe he only served 143 days as a US Senator before he started the presidential process, but still! That’s beside the point! He’s...Continue reading→