A bumper sticker said it all last night: Mittsachusetts.
“It’s not looking good,” said one member of Shannon O’Brien’s campaign at approximately 10 p.m. last night at the Boston Sheraton Hotel.
“We have won,” declared Green Party candidate Jill Stein in her concession speech last night, “because there is an outbreak of hope in Massachusetts.”
Boston University students once again stayed away from campus polling places during yesterday’s general election, though poll site workers reported slight increases in student interest over past years.
A group of approximately 100,000 voters and candidate supporters gathered yesterday evening at The Boston Public Library, which houses polls for three wards, in anticipation of Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Shannon O’Brien and Chris Gabrieli’s arrival.
At 10 p.m. last night a roar went through the Park Plaza Hotel in downtown Boston as Mitt Romney supporters cheered the projection that the Republican would become the next governor of Massachusetts. At 10:05 p.m., another wild burst of cheering erupted in the Beacon Room on the fourth floor of the Park Plaza, as supporters for Question 2 saw the election results that their program to bring English immersion to the Massachusetts school system had passed.
Boston University Student Union Vice President for Student Affairs Carl Woog traveled to South Carolina last week to recruit African-American voters to the Democratic Party.
Ted Sorensen, a former aide and speech writer to President John F. Kennedy, spoke before nearly 200 Boston University students and faculty members yesterday, discussing the Cuban Missile Crisis and the similarities between the current U.S. situation with Iraq and the international crisis 40 years ago.
A possible war with Iraq has the potential to divide the nation, according to Boston University Professor Herman Eilts.
After the traumatizing memory of my first voting experience — the 2000 presidential elections — I returned to the polls yesterday for the midterm elections.