2008 Woodie Awards
A Clarkson Mosiac
No deal for Clarkson?
Robert Dora
Issue date: 3/10/08 Section: Features
1936 was an intense year for politics. The upcoming presidential election was the focus of much discussion. Student participation and poll turnouts were of a much higher percentage than these days. As such, the candidates took an interest in the student ballot. Many students at Clarkson participated in a poll to that regard, during this era.
Clarkson students tended to side with the collegic majority on most topics. Student favor at the time, in this region, was towards presidential candidate Alfred Landon. Clarkson students seemed to agree with the students from the other eight colleges, for the most part.
Clarkson also polled the students themselves. Landon was in the lead 199 to 130 when the poll results came back, ten days prior to the election. The students at Clarkson went to the polls in startling numbers, while they were open. Approximately ninety percent of the student body voted.
Despite the heavy favor for Landon, Roosevelt was reelected. Most public predictions, for the country as a whole, heavily favored Roosevelt. Not even the collegic vote, could change the tide of the election.
Clarkson students tended to side with the collegic majority on most topics. Student favor at the time, in this region, was towards presidential candidate Alfred Landon. Clarkson students seemed to agree with the students from the other eight colleges, for the most part.
Clarkson also polled the students themselves. Landon was in the lead 199 to 130 when the poll results came back, ten days prior to the election. The students at Clarkson went to the polls in startling numbers, while they were open. Approximately ninety percent of the student body voted.
Despite the heavy favor for Landon, Roosevelt was reelected. Most public predictions, for the country as a whole, heavily favored Roosevelt. Not even the collegic vote, could change the tide of the election.
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