By Pia-Luisa Lenz
Women in South Carolina are special: They live in the only state in the nation with an all-male Senate. Despite the candidacies of U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, 2008 did not become an extraordinary election year for U.S. women. In South Carolina, for the first time in three decades, [...]
Where are the women in S.C.?
S.C. young adults imagine Obama’s presidency
By Maresa Whitehead
South Carolina young adults are thinking about President-Elect Barack Obama’s first term.
Two weeks after Election Day, Americans have shifted their focus from guessing the election’s outcome to forecasting Obama’s presidency. During the campaign, Obama made promises regarding various issues, as do all political candidates. Now, as he begins his transition into the [...]
Facebook For President
By Cassey Williams
“Obama is my homeboy,” states a piece of flair, an application of random sayings and pictures that can be posted on a user’s profile page on Facebook, a social networking website used by over 50 million people, according to Wikipedia.
The amount of young people using these types of sites, between the ages of [...]
Why Did They Vote?
Voters stormed the polls in record numbers not seen in 100 years. What compelled some of South Carolina’s voters to brave the long lines and waits, as long as three or four hours for some?
Bobby Snuffer, 34, a deputy for the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department, said it’s important to vote because “this country has survived [...]
Republican Women Consider Sarah Palin
By Cassey Williams
Sixty percent of American women younger than 50 said they would not vote for Sarah Palin. Some of South Carolina’s young Republican women agree, while are still standing strong in their support of Palin.
In late October three young Republican women spoke about how they were feeling about the election. More specifically, they spoke [...]
