Monday, November 03, 2008

Marquette Obama Supporters Want to Campaign in the Classrooms

Wow.  GOP3.com has a letter from the Obama team at Marquette pushing professors to let them come into the classrooms to advocate for Obama on election day. 

From: Vertin, Marecca
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 09:04


Marquette Faculty:

Election time is here and many students at Marquette are exercising their right to vote for the first time on Tuesday. This will - no matter what - be a historical election. We want to make sure that all students are reminded that they can still vote (even if they haven’t registered), know where their polling locations are, and are aware of how important it is to have their voices heard on Monday or Tuesday.


If you would be okay with a student stopping in the first minute (or 30 seconds!) of your class time Monday or Tuesday morning to go over this, please let us know when and where we could find you. We would additionally like to let students know that if they’d like to help out Monday or Tuesday, they can stop at the Obama Campaign student headquarters at the St. James Court apartments near Straz Hall. However, if you’d like us to leave the second part off - that’s great too. The important part is that everyone votes.


Regardless, please remind students of the importance of this upcoming election and make a plug for it in class. Whether we realize it or not, we are looking to professors for guidance everyday, and if you take a moment to address the topic, we will listen!


Thank you so much for your time, and we hope to hear from you -


Marquette’s Obama Team”

(5) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1724 hrs
Politics + Politics - General + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. We would additionally like to let students know that if they’d like to help out Monday or Tuesday, they can stop at the Obama Campaign student headquarters at the St. James Court apartments near Straz Hall. However, if you’d like us to leave the second part off - that’s great too. The important part is that everyone votes.

    No way!  Really?  Is that REALLY the important part?  Or is the important part that you will have on your Obama pins and shirts and hand out your Obama pencils and Obama Post-It notes…  ?  This is so transparent it’s laughable.

    Posted by GAMazy on November 03, 2008 at 1851 hrs


  2. Gee, wonder how many McCain supporters they’d let in the classroom?  confused

    Posted by Kate on November 03, 2008 at 1923 hrs


  3. You know what? It’s just smart organizing on the part of the Obama campaign. If they’d been smarter, they’d have been there earlier. I’ve done field work on several campaigns, and that’s what you do—you try and get in to talk to the government classes (although it’s pretty ballsy if this went out to all the professors). I never expected all of them to say yes;  any of them that did, it was just gravy for me, because it was sometimes a good source of volunteers.

    I rarely ran across GOP organizers doing this for some reason. Maybe it’s not part of their overall plan. In all likelihood, it may have been because I was often working in highly Republican areas that they felt they had sewn up. I would certainly expect that they would have gotten about the same, or possibly even better, reception, if they had only asked.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 03, 2008 at 2039 hrs


  4. I rarely ran across GOP organizers doing this for some reason. Maybe it’s not part of their overall plan.

    Maybe it’s because they’re all quitting and voting for the Democrat.

    Posted by folkbum on November 03, 2008 at 2147 hrs


  5. Actually, it’s because Republicans have respect for students’ and professors’ time in college.

    You know, Jay, R E S PE CT.

    Posted by dad29 on November 03, 2008 at 2209 hrs


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