Election 2010

Student coverage of the 2010 midterm elections and campus politics.

• Libertarian candidate competes for LSU student votes

  Matthew Albright - Daily Reveille

  Randall Hayes’ candidacy for senate is a pipe dream, but there’s reason to believe libertarianism is catching on campuses in Louisiana.

• Young voters are increasingly turning to the Republicans

  Cathryn Sloane - Daily Iowan

  A Pew Research Center study says there was a 14 percent decrease in the number of registered young Democratic voters from 2008 to 2009.

• Independent candidate, Tea Party member remains in tight VA-5 race

  Tyler DeBoard - Daily Cavalier

  Jeffrey Clark’s only polling 6 percent right now, but in Virginia’s 5th District, home to UVA, that a few hundred votes could make a huge difference.

• Pennsylvania GOP sets up shop at Penn State

  Katrina Wehr - Daily Collegian

  With Pennsylvania a battleground for close races and college students a desired constituency, the state Republican Party has set up an office in State College.

• Second appeal filed against Duke College Republicans

  Duke Chronicle Staff

  A second former College Republicans member has alleged discrimination in his removal from the organization that he says is in violation of the schools “all-comers” organizational policy.

• UC president resigns from board over Whitman endorsement

  Mihir Zaveri - Daily Californian

  Univ. of California president Mark Yudof has suspended his membership on the California Chamber of Congress Board of Directors follows its endorsement of Meg Whitman for governor.

• University of Indiana county rejects satellite voting for 2010

  Mary Kenney - Indiana Daily Student

  College voters in Indiana won’t be able to vote early at alternative locations this fall — but not everyone thinks this is a bad thing.

• Antiwar protester pleads guilty to violent act

  Lindsey Anderson - AU Eagle

  American U. student gets community service for throwing a glass Snapple bottle filled with paint at a military recruitment center. Pacifism, he says, hurts the antiwar movement.

• Republican attacks professor’s pot study

  Jim Brunner - Seattle Times

  A Washington State professor received a $148,000 stimulus-funded grant to study pot. He created less than 10 jobs. Republican senate candidate Dino Rossi isn’t so high on it.

• Cambridge calls for illegal-alien amnesty

  Associated Press

  Home to Harvard, Cambridge’s considering plan that would grant citizenship to illegal aliens who join military, finish college.