Election Watch: Burr Curiously Absent at Hamilton Debates
I just came back from the second ASUO Executive debates. This round was very different from the first. While the debates on Tuesday were held in swanky Gerlinger Lounge, these were in the middle of Hamilton Dining Hall during dinnertime. Only three of the five tickets showed up: Daniels/DuFour and Axelrod/Guzman were both no-shows.
I was unsurprised by their absence. Those two tickets are certainly the front-runners– attending the debate would have only hurt them.
Anyways, my ASUO Executive prediction (which I can only hope is more accurate than my final four predictions):
Daniels/DuFour and Axelrod/Guzman will likely win the primaries, leading to one of the better named matchups in ASUO history: the Double D’s vs. The Axelrod. Unfortunately for Axelrod/Guzman, the losing tickets will rally behind Daniels/DuFour.
Voting turnout: 18.5%
Voter turnout is always and predictably about two or three percentage points lower in the final election than in the “primary”. Likely because voting twice in two weeks is stupid, and students don’t remember to do it.
What I’ve never understood is how the E-board can be so menacingly incompetent as to not get the election done before spring break. I mean, really, IIRC the Greentape simple says it has to be done between February and the end of April (used to be the beginning of April), and these people have had their positions since last cycle. Taking fall term to plan, and being able to pull off the election during winter seems perfectly reasonable to me. Of course, I’m not in student government, maybe smoking weed in Sunriver makes you lazy.
I enjoyed the event, mostly because tyler graf is hilarious
I guess Vishanoff really got the people out this year.
Just for your information, election turnout already is over 18% with 3000 students voting.
Yeah, but I think it’s going to be a lot higher this year than usual. We’ll see.. my predictions for 2006 so far have led me to believe that I should never bet again.
I stayed for the entire thing. It was pretty decent, but I would hardly call it a debate.
That’s a pretty generous voter turnout don’t ya think?