By Maya Schaefer [Photo courtesy of Radio Raheem, 2010] It’s been around six weeks (at the time of writing) since the 2024 presidential election took place, and there’s still a lot to unpack. One feature I’ve always been interested in was voter registration, especially on Denison’s campus. I’m still impressed by the stats that DU…
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From Campus Clubs to the Voting Booth: Does Involvement Spark Political Action?
By Maya Schaefer With nearly 30% of Denisonians being varsity athletes, 35% affiliated with a Greek-lettered organization, and 160 campus organizations available to students, it seems that the trademark of Denisonians is being involved. Whether that takes its form in a double major, triple minor, or being a part of 6 different clubs, I always…
Information or Experiences? Twitter and the 2024 Election
By Miles Williams, Data for Political Research I keep seeing a debate making the rounds among academics about whether the Democratic Party’s electoral failure in the recent election was the result of people’s lived experiences with inflation and other related economic hardships, or if people instead based their vote on their information environment. Those who…
How Denisonians feel about the 2024 election and the candidates
By Harrison Hamm The 2024 presidential election is approaching, but enthusiasm among Denison students is not high. For a variety of reasons, the candidates do not inspire excitement among students, according to polling from March of this year. The candidates have been known for months, as Donald Trump had little problem navigating the Republican primaries….
Using Voter Mobilization to See How Close Knit Our Campus Is
By The Darian of Harrington One of the problems that we have as a human species is that we do not have the capability to fully take-in, process, and understand all of the information that is constantly bombarding us. Due to this, we create different heuristics, which are essentially mental shortcuts, in order to efficiently…
The Voter Registration Race of 2018
By The Darian of Harrington If there is one thing that gets the juices of political organizations on campus flowing, it is elections; voting season means registration for students. Ohio has a special rule for its voters that affects college students – students can use their collegiate address to register to vote in Ohio, even…
Denison 2018 Midterm Voter Turnout!
By Paul A. Djupe The polls just closed in Ohio and everyone is excited to know what we think the vote looked like among Denison students. We are just wrapping up our poll of students this semester (~530 responded) and are taking a quick look on election eve. Overall, student voter interest was down from…
How Many Denisonians Register to Vote in Ohio?
By Paul A. Djupe Happy National Voter Registration Day! Are you registered to vote? At home or here in Granville? I hope that it goes without saying that voting is a critical act of taking a stake in the future of the US and expressing who you are (if you’re a citizen). While all elections…
Denison Students Are Polarized, But Not Like The Rest of the Nation
By Oliver Gladfelter In June of 2017, The Democracy Fund Voter Study Group released a report showing that Clinton and Trump voters were more polarized on social issues than on issues concerning the economy (Drutman 2017). Clinton supporters were decisively left leaning on both economic and social issues, while Trump’s supporters leaned right primarily on…
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