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Newsflash: Climatologist e-mails reveal humans do not contribute to the environmental warming of the earth! It’s all a big-government conspiracy! Down with recycling! Stop alternative energy research!
Just when you thought politics were getting boring again, Sarah Palin burst back onto the political scene this week with her new book Going Rogue: An American Life. Her memoir is part autobiography, part political gossip/accusations. An overabundance of folksy similes — “our government was growing as fast as fireweed in July” — and life advice — “God doesn’t drive parked cars” — may not impress Penn students, but they do further Palin’s relationship with the groups that supported her so fervently in 2008.
It’s that time of year again! The onset of winter weather, the realization that your class has a second (or third) midterm, and those Halloween pictures you forgot about reappearing on Facebook: Yep, advanced registration is here.
A year ago marked the first time in a decade that we knew the next President of the United States on election night. No unseemly court battles, no examination of 18th-century state election laws, just a straightforward election that allowed us to dance in the streets and then head to bed by midnight. It really is extraordinary that the election producing our first black president occurred without any real hoopla over the results.
I’d be willing to bet that most people reading this column voted in the 2008 presidential election if they were eligible. I’d also be willing to bet most people understand the importance Pennsylvania plays in national electoral politics — we’re a swing state that candidates of both parties fiercely compete for in the primary and general elections. I would also bet, though, that most people reading this newspaper don’t know there is an election in just two weeks which affects us just as much, if not more, than national elections.
In 1800, two giants among men, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, held deeply-entrenched, opposing ideas about what direction the nascent nation should take. Their ideologies played out in the election when they ran against each other for president of the United States. Jefferson beat incumbent Adams, but was stuck with him as vice president. Their differences were so great and the campaigning so intense that they became bitter rivals and didn’t reconcile until the end of their lives (in one of history’s quirky moments, they died on the same day: July 4, 1826).
I am a firm believer in the existence of the inside-the-Beltway phenomenon. Politicians who spend all their time cooped up together in the swamp of D.C. with their wonky staff members unintentionally lose touch with the rest of America. This is why the August recess exists: So that legislators can exit the morass and reenter the lives of the people they represent.