Posted on 11/30/2014 10:16:24 AM PST by Steelfish
Occidental Students Confront A Reality Of Political Campaigns: Defeat
By JASON SONG
For a semester, Occidental students spent 12-hour days campaigning for candidates -- and lost Occidental College students worked for credit on various political campaigns and got a dose of reality The midterm elections were over. The 11 campaign workers from Occidental College returned to class. But first, they heard from a school reverend.
"You win some, you lose some," Susan Young told the group. It's perfectly OK, she said, to have trouble readjusting to college life or to feel out of place.
In what is believed to be the only college program of its kind, the undergraduates in the Campaign Semester course spent at least 2 1/2 months, often seven days a week, 12 hours a day, working on behalf of candidates in contested states.
None won.
I don't think our representative government is broken, but I do think it's become less democratic and it's difficult to get good people in office. - Joshua Wodka, senior who worked for North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan Many were resoundingly defeated, although two students worked for the reelection campaign of Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, who is in a runoff. All of the students worked for Democratic candidates; Republicans swept the mid-terms and took control of the House and Senate.
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Losers.
I hope working on these campaigns didn’t take away from their real classes like “transgendered lesbian african women studies 101”.
And of course they are now whining that the democratic process is broken. LOL!
I have a problem with it too. It is an indicator of what our education system has become and it’s no surprise that it is revealed at an allegedly “hard to get into” school that accepted Obama with a below C average and history of drug and alcohol abuse.
The real problem is Occidental is a college. Probably the worst in the country. More like Accidental.
Gee, really? Is their school in any way subsidized by taxpayer money?
What school isn't.
The Rats never run out of shady schemes, do they?
It strikes me as being unseemly at best; it is definitely a
conflict of interest, both for the students and the college.
But wait, they are all liberals and such things are of no
importance to them.
LOL — but I’m sure that a college somewhere offers such a course.
I don't think our representative government is broken, but I do think it's become less democratic PARTY and it's difficult to get good democrat party people in office. - Joshua Wodka, senior who worked for North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan.
So how is democrats losing but Republicans winning less democratic? I'm very happy that after these past many years, MY voice was heard, Josh! Remember who said "I won."? Well "You lost!"
Boo frickin’ hoo.
The part I find most unnerving and disturbing about this is that EVERY campaign they worked on was for a democrat.
And they received course “credit” for the project.
>>Losers.<<
Yeah, but losers who got college credit for backing losers. I wonder how many students got credit for supporting conservative candidates?
I worked as a high-ranking volunteer for the Evelle Younger campaign (he would have been a GREAT Governor) and it was 100% volunteer time. Because, unlike these losers, I gave a damn about the result and put my time and energy on the line to show it.
Did the parents pay tuition so that their kids could work for free? Isn’t this like a campaign contribution? Isn’t there a limit on how much one person can contribute to a candidate?
I noted that too.
The democratic process is alive and well. These students, whether they know it or not, have learned some major life lessons here. Among those lessons are that you don’t always win political campaigns.
Also, they have learned that many people do not view the world through the lens of liberal college political views, so they have the audacity to vote Republican. As political activists, their job would be to persuade people to vote for their candidates and issues. And you will not always convince everyone of your positions.
If they come away from their experiences thinking that our political system is broken because liberals didn’t win election campaigns they worked on, I think they are clueless and perhaps mindless.
Any Occidental student who accepts feral government grants or loans should be precluded from engaging in political activity as a classroom assignment.
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