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RON THOMAS
OBAMA CLAIMS VICTORY CONTINUED
“First I would like to give credit to the SGA E-Board mem
bers, SGA Election Committee, NAACP, Psi Chapter of
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Young Democrats, and the
Alpha Rho Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.,”
Washington stated.
Washington, along with his teammates made sure that
they registered and spread the word as best as possible.
“We spoke to small group of freshmen during Fresh
man Orientation and educated them on absentee ballots and
each candidate,” Washington continued. “We registered
people at pageants, Market Friday and Hump Wednesday. I
could not be more proud of the work we did in the AUC and
the numbers we added.”
Many students were involved in this process and
worked extremely hard to ensure that every citizen was able
to vote.
“After [Election Day], we believe that our efforts were not
in vain,” the Election Committee Commissioner Stephen
Green, a junior religion major, said.
Green and his committee worked extremely hard on
organizing certain events like Hump Wednesday and pag
eants. They also held trainings on campus to assist students
in becoming deputy voter registrars.
“It has been reported that that the youth vote from
2008 was increased,” Green said. “This can be attributed to
our efforts at Morehouse.”
“We went into the community in the cold and wet
weather knocking on doors,” Washington mentioned. “We
called over 1000 people between Morehouse, Spelman, and
the NAACP. It wasn’t just enough for us to vote, we had to
make sure that other people voted. And again, I just want to
thank my team and everyone who participated.”
HONDA CAMPUS
ALL-STAR CHALLENGE
Donnell Williamson
Associate Campus News Editor
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It’s that time of year
again! On Sunday, Oct. 4,
Morehouse hosted its campus
wide tournament for the Honda
Campus All-Star Challenge
(HCASC) quiz bowl. This
Honda sponsored event was
created at Morehouse in 1989
under the direction of Dr. Anne
Watts.
HCASC is a tourna
ment that focuses on current re
lations, academic material, pop
culture and sports in a quickly
manner.
Before Morehouse can
take a team to the National
Championship Tournament
(NCT), they are required to
host a campus wide tournament
to create the opportunity for
students to join the team, and
then they are required to host a
Pre-NCT.
This year there were
eight teams, each containing
three members, one being a
team captain. These teams
were based off of majors, and
results that were given from
the “Power Search” pre-quiz.
The Power Search quiz is only
to give placement and create
an equal playing field for the
students.
The rules for the quiz bowl
are as follows: there are three
rounds (each timed at four min
utes), the player must “buzz-
in” and be recognized before
answering the question. If the
question is answered correctly,
the player can answer up to two
follow-up questions that count
as bonuses.
The first question is 10 points,
and the following bonus ques
tions are five points each.
After the main three rounds are
completed, the teams enter a
one-minute bonus round, which
is comprised of questions based
from a certain category.
The first place team
was Khari Graves T4 (captain),
Matt Kelly ’15, and Xaundrae
Tingling ’12. Monetary dona
tions were given to the first,
second, and third place teams.
“When it comes to an
HCASC competition of any
sort, be it national or campus
wide, I, along with mostly
anyone involved, expect focus
from teammates over anything
else,” Khari Graves said when
asked about efforts being made
as a team.
Graves plans on going
to the NTC and competing
amongst other HBCUs to bring
back a trophy for Morehouse.
“In order to carry this strategy
out on the national scale, all
the members of the team need
to be willing to be selfless and
willing to take a back seat to
another team member who may
have greater knowledge of sub
jects than themselves,” he said.
The coach for the past
five years has been English
Professor Charles Walton ‘86.
He has been creating an envi
ronment for students to learn
the material quickly and in an
effective manner ever since he
has been the coach.
“I have always enjoyed ‘quiz
shows’ (such as ‘Jeopardy’
and ‘Who Wants to be a Mil
lionaire?’), but I was not aware
of the Honda Campus All-Star
Challenge until one of my
former instructors, Dr. Watts,
approached me in 2008 and
asked if I would be interested
in taking over as the advisor
and coach for the Morehouse
team,” Walton said.
Walton’s goal for this
year is to win the NCT. Last
year Morehouse College placed
third in the HCASC National
Championship Tournament. He
plans on making sure that all
of the student-competitors are
conscious of all relatable mate
rial.
“My assistant coach and
HCASC Institutional Represen
tative, Mr. Eugene Finley ‘06,
and I will work hard over the
next few months to train and
select the best players to repre
sent Morehouse in the spring,”
Walton said.
Anyone who is still
interested in being a part of
the Morehouse HCASC team
can still get involved. Contact
Charles Walton (in Brawley
Hall/Room 103-P) or Eugene
Finley (in Douglas Hall) for
more information.
POLITIHOUSE
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273,010
total number of votes counted
in Fulton Count?/, GA.
174,392
votes for President Barack
Obama
94,458
votes for Republican candidate
Mitt Romney.
3,376
votes for the Libertarian
candidate Gary Johnson.
students registered to vote by
Morehouse and Spelman SGA.
OVER 1000
Atlanta residents called by SGA
leaders on Election Day.
doors knocked on through More
house SGA canvassing efforts.
174
$9 MILLION
303
206
ONE
students at Morehouse precinct casted Provi
sional Ballots due to miscommunication
between precincts and constituents.
amount of money in budget to improve
efficiency of Fulton County/ Precincts.
electoral votes for the Presi
dent Barack Obama.
electoral votes for Mitt Romney
President elected to another
four-year term
Data used for this report was collected from the AJC, Morehouse SGA, and the
Fulton County Election Commission.
GC
Jared Loggins
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OBAMA ACHIEVES
ELECTORAL VICTORY
Jared Loggins
Associate World and Local
Editor
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In the crowd at Presi
dent Barack Obama’s and Mitt
Romney’s campaign head
quarters where they would
both offer remarks about their
respective fates, one would be
blind to not observe the notice
able demographic differences
between the two audiences.
Romney Headquarters -middle
aged. White, seemingly af
fluent. Obama Headquarters
-minority, women, young
people. Some say this is exactly
the identity challenge the GOP
faces in the future. Others say it
is representative of an electoral
conundrum for the GOP which
is tied to shifting demograph
ics.
Since the early days of
the 2012 election cycle, Demo
cratic and Republican strate
gists have summed up Republi
can nominee and former Mass.
Gov. Mitt Romney’s chances of
an electoral college victory in
one word: elusive. They were
right. The country reelected the
44th President Barack Hussein
Obama to another 4-year term
in a sizeable electoral victory.
Some say this outcome
for Gov. Romney was not
predicated on his weakness as
a Republican challenger but
simply because the demograph
ic shift in this country isn’t in
alignment with a party which
has mostly appealed to conser
vative and middle-aged white
men, a group which is shrink
ing as an electorate.
Demographic shifts
over the last 20 years point to
a problem for the GOP as it
relates to edging out an elec
toral victory in presidential
elections in the future. Repub
licans, traditionally, have relied
on conservative middle class
voters and affluent white men
to compose the core of their
electorate while Democrats
have relied on a rising faction
of women, minorities and cul
turally young people for their
base.
It is for that reason that since
1992, no Democratic in
cumbent or candidate for the
presidency has lost; and if they
did, the margin was decided by
one state. In 2004, Republican
President George W. Bush won
reelection by carrying the criti
cal state of Ohio, giving him
286 electoral votes to Demo
cratic nominee John Kerry’s
251. In the historic 2000 elec
tion, the election came down
to Florida, which Democratic
nominee A1 Gore lost.
According to CNN polling
data, Obama won big with
growing minority blocs; 93
percent of the African-Amer
ican electorate voted for the
President and 71 percent for
Hispanics though Obama only
won 39 percent of White voters
nationwide.
Recent New York
Times, PBS, and Huffington
Post electoral projections had
consistently shown an Obama
edge in the Electoral College
well before November 6. This
edge, some say, was partly
because of Obama’s appeal to
the increasingly diverse elec
torate across the country. After
all polls had closed and fol
lowing the President’s remarks
to a crowd of over 20,000 in
Chicago, CNN’s most recent
Electoral College projection
showed the President had won
reelection with 303 electoral
votes, though Florida had not
officially been called for neither
the President or Romney.
Across the country,
GOP candidates including
Romney lost in states like
Nevada, Colorado and New
Mexico with growing Hispanic
populations. They lost in states
like Pennsylvania where CNN
exit polls showed substantially
high turnout of black voters and
women voters.
“If we lose this election
there is only one explanation
-demographics," Sen. Lindsay
Graham said in a Politico inter
view published the day before
the election.
It remains to be seen
what the GOP will do dur
ing the upcoming four years
regarding some of the most per
tinent issues of our time related
to women’s health, immigration
and race relations.
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