November 1, 2012
The 2012 election is a pivotal moment in our nation’s political history. Crucial issues have been brought to the table by each party’s candidates, and it is finally time to put our democratic powers to use. Election Day is right around the corner. On Tuesday, November 6, citizens across the country will rush to their district polling places to cast their votes in a divisive political battle.
For most Hamilton students, this is the first presidential election in which we are eligible to participate. The Spectator has dedicated this entire issue to the election, as it relates to Hamilton and the community at large. Each of our sections has put the election into its respectable context to inform our community of some of the lesser known facts about the candidates and their relation to the Hamilton community.
Though The Spectator rarely deviates from its usual coverage of on-campus events, we decided that the upcoming election was too important to push to the inside pages of some of this semester’s issues. We wanted to present as much information as possible, so we waited until the last issue before the election to present you with our official election issue.
A great deal of the production of this issue required the help of our readers, and to those who participated, we send our greatest thanks. At times, however, this reliance on readership-participation proved difficult, as e-mail apathy led to a low response rate to our all-campus election poll (see our front page article for the results).
On our college campus, a lot of the voting has already been processed, as postal absentee ballots are the primary method of voting for college students (see page 6 for more information on early voting). For those students who have yet to send in their ballots, we encourage you to do so promptly.
This issue hopes to bring to the table the wide range of political opinions on this campus, while also highlighting the strong liberal lean common to most liberal arts communities. For an article on the conservative culture on our campus, see page 11. We did not forget about the perspective of the third-party. For more information about libertarianism, see page 10.
Though next week we will return to our usual content, we encourage readers to continue participating in The Spectator by sending letters to the editor to spec@hamilton.edu or add your comments to the new comment feature on The Spectator website (www.hamilton.edu/spectator). We at The Spectator hope that you enjoy our election issue, and that it helps to inform your decision in the 2012 election.
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