Juan Pablo Rivera Garza
Blogs Editor
Even the torrential rains of Hurricane Issac could not prevent the GOP from holding their national convention, a successful one to boot. Party operatives set out to make a convention that both re-introduced Governor Mitt Romney to the American people, and buff out the ruff edges of his public image. On both these counts they succeeded, but was it enough?
Kit Clemente and Audrey Piehl
Opinions Editors
Amidst thoughts of an impending math final, my teacher casually mentions a “Student Council assembly” next period. I blindly follow a lackluster mob into the auditorium, merely to witness a series of prom-is-going-to-be-great speeches. While most are well delivered and the students are respectable members of their class, the passive crowd refuses to grant them any speck of interest. Later the same day pitiful ballots are passed out like busy-work homework, and my classmates vote with wary eyes plastered to their neighbors’ desk, thus completing an annual round of high school democracy.
Juan Pablo Rivera Garza
Blogs Editor
Its official: the presidential race is all tied up. Recent polls have put President Obama and Governor Romney in a tight race, with polls showing their leads within the margin of error or tied. However, even though the popular vote is extremely tight, the electoral college map at this point heavily favors President Obama. If the election was held today, Obama would win the electoral college 294 to Governor Romney’s 244.
Juan Pablo Rivera Garza
Blogs Editor
On April 24 the republican presidential candidates courted the vote of students when Connecticut hosted its round of the Republican Presidential Primaries. However, turnout for the primaries in New Canaan was extremely low, clocking in at only 13 percent. These numbers suggests little interest in the primaries, let alone the presidential race as a whole. So the question arises, do students in the high school care about this election?
