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Gallup polls jolted by Democratic, Republican national conventions

By Megan Dunbar September 19, 2012

Presidential candidates traditionally experience a jump in polling points after their National Conventions. True to form, President Barack Obama’s campaign gained an immediate three-point increase...

Student voters more interested in candidates’ personalities

By Joshua Bergeron September 19, 2012

Opinions of President Barack Obama have changed drastically since he took office. A Pew Research study profiled the change in opinion. In 2008, voters described Obama as inexperienced and young. Those...

Former Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer speaks to Manship School students Tuesday afternoon in the Holliday Forum of the Journalism Building.

Roemer speaks at University, grim on November election

By Staff Writer September 12, 2012

Former presidential candidate and former Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer predicted a November election that will bring no change to America to a full-capacity crowd in the Manship School of Mass Communication’s...

First Lady Michelle Obama addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

First lady’s popularity matters

By Staff Writer September 10, 2012

In 1960, the wife of President Richard Nixon campaigned for her husband to win the female vote with buttons that read “Pat for First Lady,” according to the National First Ladies’ Library. ...

FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2012, file photo President Barack Obama addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. A deep obsession with the story of America, who tells it, and who gets to write its next chapter, was a rare piece of common ground that speakers at both the Republican and Democratic conventions managed to share. Over and over, they spun different versions of the same notion. Mitt Romney spoke passionately of “the essence of the American experience.” Obama talked emphatically of “the basic bargain at the heart of America's story.” (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

President Obama’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ forum crashes Reddit

By Megan Dunbar September 3, 2012

Reddit.com users reveled in a rare opportunity to directly question President Barack Obama when he posted an “Ask Me Anything” last Thursday on the popular social news website. Reddit touts...

Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden speaks at a press conference Jan. 11, 2012, about a new banking program, Bank On.

Holden faces opposition in November election

By Staff Writer August 26, 2012

Since 2004, Baton Rouge Mayor-President Melvin “Kip” Holden has enjoyed city-wide popularity and a landslide 2008 election. But as he begins another bid for a final term in November, the path...

Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan speaks to the crowd during a victory rally, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012 at Lake Sumter Landing Market Square in The Villages, Fla. (AP Photo/Daily Sun, Bill Mitchell) LEESBURG; ORLANDO AND OCALA OUT

Paul Ryan could alter student aid

By Staff Writer August 19, 2012

Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s choice of running mate could not only affect the politically hot topics of healthcare, Medicaid and deficit spending — Romney’s recently...

Chris Brown (left) and Lance Brumfield (center), mechanical engineering graduate students speak with Senator David Vitter after he spoke in fornt of engineering students and professors Monday afternoon in the Frank H. Walk Room as part of the Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series hosted by the College of Engineering.

Sen. Vitter reacts to prostitution scandal among government personnel in Colombia

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., in his first reaction to the recent prostitution scandal among Secret Service and military personnel in Colombia, called the incident “a very, very serious situation”...

U.S.-Egyptian policy can’t afford indecision

By Technician Editorial Staff
February 2, 2011

Facts: Last week, thousands of Egyptian demonstrators filled the streets of Cairo to protest the appointments of autocratic president Hosni Mubarak. A week later, with over 800 wounded and uncertainty...

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