President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama embrace Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden moments after the television networks called the election in their favor, while watching election returns at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park in Chicago, Ill., Nov. 6, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
During the summer months I (Kasey) spent 3 months interning for the US Navy. I have visited, worked and lived in America many times before I never came into much contact with politics, however this time I found myself in the midst of a ridiculously expensive election campaign that was sat on the world stage. I was thrust into a whole new environment where your political opinion really did matter. “I’m Barrack Obama and I approve this message” commercial complaints aside, I learnt so much about how Americans really feel about the politics of their politics…
Kasey Robinson, Editor
In this issue:
- Ole Miss, by Joe Kerry
- New York New York…, by Sophie Cowling
- What’s eating Gilbert Grape?, review by Aileen Suresh
- Obama vs. Marijuana, by Sarah Viggers
- Reassessing the GOP’s conservative social vision, by Professor Scott Lucas
- Minnesota election period experience, by Lucy Shilling
- Drowning Out Political Agendas, by Chelsea DeMark
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