Voter identification laws have taken a main stage in debates this year. In a nation where voter participation is consistently very low, any restrictions on voting need to be examined carefully. In 2006, Indiana made national news for enacting one of the first in a wave of voter identification laws. The law requires potential voters…
OPINION | Vote based on your conscience, not on electability
Community members should vote with their consciences in this election, and nothing more. If that means voting third party—or not at all—students, faculty and staff should do so. Voting is a symbolic act. In a nation of nearly 320 million people, individual votes may not carry much weight. However, citizens should use their votes not…
In the face of loss, Democrats have hope
Despite the Democratic Party lagging behind in polls and early voting results nationwide, spirits were high at the Indiana Democratic Party Election Party at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown. The defining event of the night was certainly the Senate race, where Democrat Brad Ellsworth battled Republican Dan Coats for Evan Bayh’s open Senate seat. Ellsworth lost…
Coats takes Senate; Carson hangs on to 7th
The 2010 midterm elections had people glued to their television screens as results came in on Tuesday night. Cnn.com states that experts were predicting the Republicans would win control of the House of Representatives. The Republican party needed a net gain of 39 seats to reach the 218 majority of the 435 seats in the…
A vote to change the future
By Dan Coats Our federal government keeps swiping our already maxed out credit card, raising the credit limit and passing insurmountable debt on to your generation—putting you at a great disadvantage in an increasingly global marketplace. As I’ve traveled the state, meeting countless Hoosiers concerned that we may be leaving future generations a weaker and…
College student votes still important
By Brad Ellsworth In 2008, students on this campus and on college campuses around the country accomplished something extraordinary. You turned conventional wisdom on its head by doing one simple thing: showing up. Here in Indiana, you made thousands of phone calls, knocked on hundreds of doors and came out to vote in historical numbers…