Politics

Penn's Tea Party hosts ex-governor candidate Robert Mansfield

Former Pa. gubernatorial candidate Robert Mansfield spoke Wednesday night to Penn’s branch of the Tea Party about his political journey toward the conservative grassroots movement.

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In home stretch, a push for turnout

Now that registration for the Nov. 2 midterm elections is over, Penn’s political groups will shift gears to focus on voter turnout among both students and area residents.

Groups make last effort to register voters

With a Pennsylvania voter registration deadline of midnight tonight student political groups spent the weekend adding as many students as possible to the state’s voter rolls.

Penn Dems canvass in Philadelphia suburbs

Volunteers from the Penn Democrats went door to door in Swarthmore, Pa., on Saturday on behalf of Bryan Lentz, the Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania’s seventh congressional district — a key area of Pennsylvania for statewide candidates.

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Chinburg launches Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots at Penn

Graduate student Dan Chinburg was once a full-time intern for the Democratic Committee in Montgomery County. Now he's an active member of the Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots.

Mobilizing the student vote

With less than five days remaining until the Oct. 4 voter registration deadline, student political leaders at Penn are making a final push to swell the voter rolls at polling locations across campus.

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Rove talks elections in Philadelphia

On Monday, Karl Rove spoke to an audience of about 100 attendees at the National Constitution Center, at 525 Arch St., regarding his newly released autobiography and the midterm elections.

Howard Dean fundraises for Pennsylvania Democratic midterm candidates

Howard Dean, a former governor of Vermont, held a fundraising event at the home of a Pennsylvania state senator on Wednesday for the Democratic candidates in Pennsylvania’s sixth and seventh congressional districts — Manan Trivedi and Bryan Lentz, respectively.

Young Republicans may be more excited in 2010

A recent poll suggests that, contrary to popular belief, young Republicans may be more enthusiastic than their Democratic peers — at least in the upcoming midterm elections.

DREAM act fails to pass

Though student activists at Penn were disappointed that the Development, Relief and Education for Minor Aliens Act’s passage failed to pass Congress, they say they will continue to campaign.

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