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Dear readers of The College Voter,
We are going to start occasionally featuring college student shout-outs on political issues pertinent and relevant to you, the college voters. We’ll feature your shout-out via Youtube, mp3, or podcast. Make your voice heard.

Ashley, 22, Penn State Student

This College Voter says, “listen up Obama, Clinton, and McCain. It’s the […]

We love eccentric, blunt-talking billionaires, particularly when they’re either media moguls or energy tycoons. We find T Boone Pickens, the founder of Mesa Petroleum, particularly lovable because his name seems to be straight out of There Will Be Blood. He’s a Texas billionaire oilman-turned-wind farmer. After 50-some years of quail hunting, he decided […]

Democratic-presidential hopeful Hilliary Clinton announced an ambitious 4 billion dollar anti-crime program that will put 100,000 new police officers on streets across the nation.
She is trying to kick it up a couple notches with a program appropriately named COPS 2.0. We say appropriate because we remember when we were bright, kickball playin’, show-and-tellin’, addin’-and-subtractin’ whipper […]

Colin Kalmbacher is a correspondent and contributor for The College Voter from The University of Texas at Austin.
Even London Bridge has fallen down
and moved to Arizona;
now I know why.
And I’ll substantiate the rumor
that the English sense of humor
is drier than the Texas sand.
You can put up your dukes,
and you can bet your boots,
that I’m leavin’ […]

There’s a fascinating article in The New York Times lampooning former presidents for their sporting pursuits. Jimmy Carter liked flying fishing and everyone else liked golf…
We’re still confident an Obama vs. (insert famous NBA player here) one-on-one game would skyrocket his cool-points percentage (a race we’re pretty sure he is already winning in the […]