The College Democrats have announced the location of this year’s Campaign Fun Trip, and it is to Virginia! Northern Virginia, specifically. They’ll be campaigning for Obama, Senate hopeful Mark Warner, and Judy Feder, who is running for Congress. 

Bwog’s dreams of a Columbia presidential matchup died with the candidacy of Mike Gravel — we thought. Now a new challenger, while falling short of the Alaska senator’s genius in television advertising, may actually take the 2008 cycle’s stranger-than-fiction cake: self-proclaimed “King of Vegas” Wayne Allyn Root, CC ’83 and classmate of Sen. Barack Obama […]

White House Bureau Chief Jim Downie returns with news from the campaign trail (on a Tuesday!). April fools? Spring means baseball, and on Sunday night, your blogger’s favorite baseball team, the Washington Nationals, opened their new ballpark in DC (with a win over the Braves, by the way). The number of people who thought last […]

Tipster Rick Betita noticed that Barack Obama is in New York City today, delivering a speech about the  economy at—where else?—Cooper Union. Obama was introduced to the crowd by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. In the speech, Obama explained his rationale for visiting Cooper Union: “In a city of landmarks, we meet at Cooper […]

There was no spring break on the campaign trail, so White House Bureau Chief Jim Downie is here to fill you in on what you may have missed during the brief academic hiatus. Your faithful blogger returns from a relatively relaxing and sleep-filled Spring Break (including watching the very good John Adams miniseries on HBO), […]

Bwog’s 2008 Election Correspondent Jim Downie is back with a very special Wednesday edition of Political Weekly. Your faithful blogger writes this at 2:30 AM for two reasons: first, because the final results in Texas are taking forever to come through, preventing a more prompt summary, and second, because he’s dedicated to you, the readers. […]

2008 is Bwog’s first Presidential election year ever, so we’ve asked resident political junkie Jim Downie to write a weekly column summarizing, analyzing and sometimes mocking the past week in national politics. Political Weekly will run on Mondays, Obama, McCain, Huckabee and Clinton will run all year long.  So why does Bwog feel you need […]

While many Columbia students voted in New York or nearby states on Super Tuesday,  others have voted, or will be voting, absentee.  Bwog contributor David Iscoe recounts his experience voting absentee in the District of Columbia, where they get to vote for at least one branch of the government. Whether or not you believe in […]

O Fortuna, ye who spins your wheel to decide the fate of those who would seek the highest office in the land. And o mainstream media, ye whose color-coordinated interactive maps and expertly crafted graphics enrapture the most Butler-weary soul. As of 8 p.m. on Tuesday night, the Lerner piano lounge was filled with nearly […]

Bwog contributor and newly-experienced voter Mariela Quintana polls former virgins of the democratic process and reflects on ballots cast and chances lost.  Today was my first time. As I was walking to class this morning, I felt a bit jittery and apprehensive—and it had nothing to do with the two cups of coffee I had […]

In Brooklyn, Bwog editor Zach van Schouwen extemporizes on electioneering, and inadvertently gets disenfranchised. The lines weren’t terribly long by 8 AM at P.S. 110 in Greenpoint, where a few disheveled hipsters joined the contingent of elderly Polish men to cast a vote for one or more candidates. Stumbling blindly around the outside of the […]

So the Super Bowl is over, but New York is getting ready for another showdown. Bwog wakes up early to catch the solicitors in action! Snow on Christmas Eve is so trite, but snow on SuperTuesday Eve?! It’s just a harbinger of things to come. Volunteers from the rival Obama and Clinton factions have been […]

The State of the Union airs tonight at 9 PM. For the interested yet TV-less, it’ll be broadcast live on C-SPAN. In addition, one tipster alumnus sent Bwog a link that might make watching a bit livelier.  Cheers! 

Vote for Bwog as U.S. News and World Report’s Best College Alternative Media Outlet. Right now we’re a few points behind the Michigan blog. But the Michigan blog is making campaign promises it can’t fulfill. The blog from Michigan said, “If I win, I’ll buy everyone a puppy. That’s a promise.” Bwog’s not about to […]