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...Davone J. Tines ’09 sat anxiously in a corner watching the television screen silently, his laptop sat at his side, open to a mostly red map of his native Virginia...
...Right now, most people have this mindset that illegal downloading is plain wrong, but we need to look at the actions of the other side, too,” he said...
After almost two years of intensive campaign efforts, Harvard students in groups on both sides of the aisle gathered with their respective organizations to watch long-anticipated election results pour in last night. An undergraduate-heavy crowd, snacking on pizza and free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, watched CNN’s coverage of the election at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics. Below the forum’s big screen, life-size cut-outs of Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain stood next to a map showing the states each candidate...
...flip side, many activists complain McCain was soft on Obama’s connections to Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers. But a recent New York Times/CBS poll found that voters who rejected McCain in the final stretch cited his persistent attacks on Obama’s character as one of their main reasons for doing so. While Obama’s associations were fair game, they ultimately seemed irrelevant, and McCain’s harping on them revealed a lack of innovative ideas on more important issues...
...inability to compromise. Laws, historically, have been passed by legislatures, in which each representative answers to his constituents. Recently, however, both liberals and conservatives have forced issues such as gun control and gay marriage into courts in an attempt to bypass the legislative branch. Invariably, this leads the opposing side to counter by creating a constitutional amendment to overrule the judicial branch. Sound legislation based on compromise and accountability gives way to an arms race for legal enforcement. In this environment, positions may win, but the people ultimately lose...