By Adrian Carrasquillo

The Role of Race

Conventional wisdom at the outset of the general election held that Barack Obama would lose because he would not garner the necessary support from white voters to win the Presidency. His increased support from African-Americans was acknowledged but its potential as a game-changer was largely dismissed. Well, conventional wisdom had the unfortunate drawback of being conventional during an election that was anything but.

By Bradley Donaldson

Sen. Barack Obama dominated the polls at Stony Brook University Tuesday night, garnering more than 77 percent of the popular vote.

Obama, the democratic nominee for president swept 1,778 of the 2,324 ballots cast at the polling station. Obama’s landslide win mirrors the results of the primaries held at the university in February, when he collected 56 percent of the total number of votes.

By WUSB News Team

Placed within an elegant ballroom decorated abundantly with blue and white balloons, a quiet evening began picking up for local Democrats at the Mariott hotel in Islandia, NY.

Election propaganda adorned the walls of the large room as eager guests and politicians watched two large projection screens with the latest updates.

Although the crowd started the night very quiet and calm, the number of guests picked up as the night moved on, and with it enthusiasm picked up as well.

Courtesy of CBSnews.com

By Mike Kelly

And it’s Obama in a landslide!

Well, sort of. In two small New Hampshire towns, the voting is complete. Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location each started their voting this morning, right after midnight.

By Gary Troisi

With the election one day away, members of political clubs at Stony Brook University can soon unwind after a busy semester mounting grassroots campaigns on and off campus.

This semester the College Democrats on campus worked the phones, knocked on thousands of doors and even crossed state lines to drum up votes for national and local politicians.