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 ...
LOL! Great minds think alike!
“Is their school in any way subsidized by taxpayer money?”
Except for Hillsdale and a few others they all are. Also realize that these kids will soon be whining about their student debts. They went into debt for this nonsense. This was part of a course for which they paid. They are not just evil but really stupid.
To Students:
how about doing something really worthwhile: How about putting pressure on President Obama to release his Occidental college records?
You’re right; they learned that people who work for a living and pay taxes may see the world differently than young “takers” - and just about everything they do is supported by a host of “makers” (from housing to eating to printing textbooks etc.)
Poor little commies.
shouldn't these people be paid at least $15.00 an hour, benefits, and overtime? (liberal mode)
For one or two of those students, the experience of defeat will in time cause them to rethink their political views. More than a few lefties moved right after realizing that the American people did not wwant what they were selling.
LOL! Great minds think alike!
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So I’ve been told.
Yes. Especially since the campaigns were not in any way ‘various’ - all of their candidates were democrats.
(I’m assuming Occidental is a public college - if it’s a private school, then of course they can get college credit working for whomever they wish)
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