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Occidental Students Confront A Reality Of Political Campaigns: Defeat
LATimes ^ | November30, 2014 | JASON SONG

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: education; election
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1 posted on 11/30/2014 10:16:24 AM PST by Steelfish
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Occidental College students worked for credit on various political campaigns

I've got a real problem with this.
2 posted on 11/30/2014 10:19:27 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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3 posted on 11/30/2014 10:20:35 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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4 posted on 11/30/2014 10:21:14 AM PST by struggle
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To: Steelfish

Losers.


5 posted on 11/30/2014 10:23:26 AM PST by Graybeard58 ( O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. Ps 34:3)
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To: Steelfish

I hope working on these campaigns didn’t take away from their real classes like “transgendered lesbian african women studies 101”.


6 posted on 11/30/2014 10:24:48 AM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Steelfish
All of the students worked for Democratic candidates;

And of course they are now whining that the democratic process is broken. LOL!

7 posted on 11/30/2014 10:26:07 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: cripplecreek

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.


8 posted on 11/30/2014 10:27:29 AM PST by Baynative (Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
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To: cripplecreek

The real problem is Occidental is a college. Probably the worst in the country. More like Accidental.


9 posted on 11/30/2014 10:27:53 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (i)
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To: Steelfish
All of the students worked for Democratic candidates

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?

10 posted on 11/30/2014 10:27:57 AM PST by Regulator
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To: cripplecreek

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.


11 posted on 11/30/2014 10:28:14 AM PST by txnativegop (I'm out of ideas about tag lines.)
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To: Veggie Todd

LOL — but I’m sure that a college somewhere offers such a course.


12 posted on 11/30/2014 10:28:58 AM PST by txnativegop (I'm out of ideas about tag lines.)
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Corrected:

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!"

13 posted on 11/30/2014 10:30:07 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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Boo frickin’ hoo.


14 posted on 11/30/2014 10:30:18 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: cripplecreek

The part I find most unnerving and disturbing about this is that EVERY campaign they worked on was for a democrat.


15 posted on 11/30/2014 10:31:48 AM PST by Don W (To laugh, perhaps to dream...)
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To: Alas Babylon!

And they received course “credit” for the project.


16 posted on 11/30/2014 10:31:53 AM PST by Steelfish
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To: Graybeard58

>>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.


17 posted on 11/30/2014 10:33:20 AM PST by freedumb2003 (obozocare: shovel-ready health care)
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To: Steelfish

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?


18 posted on 11/30/2014 10:33:31 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Timber Rattler

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.


19 posted on 11/30/2014 10:34:17 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: Steelfish

Any Occidental student who accepts feral government grants or loans should be precluded from engaging in political activity as a classroom assignment.


20 posted on 11/30/2014 10:34:49 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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