Entries Tagged as 'Music'

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Music to a candidates ears

We were slightly amused when we read Joe Klein’s Swapland/Time.com blogpost from the Hillary rally last night. Hey Joe, nice to see you last night. We were fasiscinated watching the press corp scarf down a pretty substantial meal during the opening comments of Hillary’s speech. But this is arbitrary. Here’s what caught our […]

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Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Big Things Poppin At Philly Hip Hop Summit

Kymberly Bays is a correspondent and contributer for The College Voter from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Hip Hop Summit Action Network hosted Turn Up The Vote: National Youth Hip-Hop Summit today at the Liacouras Center in North Philadelphia.

Between Wu-tanging and doing the Soulja Boi, the semi-large audience (well-short of their 10,000 goal) was […]

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Sunday, April 20th, 2008

College Voters Divided By Musical Tastes And Politics

We were raking through student newspapers in our April 20th daze and we found a silly little piece of student-journalism filler on how college voter music tastes differ across party lines. Basically, the article is pointing at generalizations: Republicans listen to classic rock, while Democrats listen to alternative rock/indie music. Lots of musical styles are […]

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Friday, April 18th, 2008

Musicans Telling People How To Vote

Thank you musicians, for telling us your opinion on things.
Bruce Springsteen tells us to support Obama
Some Guy from Third Eye Blind came here to Penn State to say how much he likes Obama

Memorable Quote - Jenkins referred to a figure in history he said was much like Obama: Abraham Lincoln. “They’re both lanky legislators from […]

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Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Dispatch from Texas: Obama-Springsteen ‘08?

Colin Kalmbacher is a correspondent and contributor for The College Voter from The University of Texas at Austin.

Editors Note: Post best read while listening to “Streets of Philadelphia”
Well, he sure as hell ain’t no superdelegate but he is tougher than the rest.
Yesterday Bruce Springsteen rolled out his long-awaited (but not really surprising) endorsement of Barack […]

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