CCE preps campus community for Election Day
The Bonner Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Richmond has been working to build excitement for students to register to vote and engage in policy ahead of Virginia's gubernatorial election.
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The Bonner Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Richmond has been working to build excitement for students to register to vote and engage in policy ahead of Virginia's gubernatorial election.
Let's be honest: Virginia doesn't have any stellar candidates for governor this year. But that doesn't mean you get a free pass to sit out this election. It's a common misconception that state-level elections, unlike presidential or Congressional races, aren't all that important. That's just not true.
Ken Cuccinelli has a long history of standing up for the innocent--from his work with preventing sexual assault to protecting the preborn--and that is why the Spiders for Life are endorsing Ken Cuccinelli for governor.
The gubernatorial election in Virginia has been a notably nasty race, especially with regard to the personal views of the candidates on access to abortion and contraception. As young women living in Virginia who inhabit opposite ends of the political spectrum, we have found ourselves equally disgusted with the representation of "women's issues" on all sides.
Next Tuesday, more than 17 million Americans, or 5 percent of the U.S. population, will have elections for their state governments. The elections in New Jersey and Virginia have gained outsized national attention over the years because of their unusual timing: These are the only two states to hold their elections the year after the presidential election. Thus political observers often watch them as referenda on the president, and reporters and pundits crashing from the buzz of the election flock to cover them. Money from across the country has funded thousands of hours of omnipresent campaign ads that seemed to start on New Year's Day.
Contact photographer Renee Ruggeri at renee.ruggeri@richmond.edu
"I think that we did see some mud flicking, but not necessarily as much as we're seeing in PAC-funded ads on our television screens," Richmond Scholar Erik Lampmann said after attending the event he helped plan, Thursday's Sharp Viewpoint Speaker Series featuring Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe and Republican candidate and current Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.
"I don't know anything about the candidates."
Virginia liberals, a group that includes many Richmond students, had two victories to celebrate after last week's election. Not only did Barack Obama win a second term as president, but he also won Virginia, a state that was considered thoroughly Republican until four years ago.