voting : College Candy

Today is Election Day, and your only real responsibility is to vote. Whether you’re affixing a stamp to an absentee ballot or pulling the lever in a voting booth, get out there and make your opinon heard!

But, we in the youngest (and perhaps extremely influential) voting demographic also reserve our right to party! And after all the ballots are cast, tonight is shaping up to be the biggest party night in America. So after you’ve done your civic duty, grab your friends and get ready to watch the returns with these creative suggestions:

The Setting:

Make sure you have the essentials: a television and ample seating room. But why not spruce up the space for the occasion? If you’re lucky to have the day off from classes today (as we do at my school– thank you, Fordham!), take a few minutes to make some posters! Rasterbator is an online application that will make any image you choose into a poster up to 20 meters in size. (The image will be blown up and printed out in pieces on regular 8 1/2 x 11″ sheets of paper, so you just assemble the sheets like a grid.) It’s really quick, extremely simple, and only requires the internet and a printer.

The Games

Take it a step further by printing two posters (one of Obama and one of McCain) and grabbing some construction paper. Cut out 50 squares from construction paper and label them with the names of each state. Have your guests tack each respective state onto the poster of the candidate who wins it, to keep track of election returns. Read More »

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Decision 2008: Party like a President-Elect

November 4, 2008 - 3:30 pm By John - UConn

They’re trooping off to the polls in the biting November chill, snug in their Uggs and North Faces zipped to the collars. They’re waking up too early and standing around in long lines for something that isn’t free food. They’re American college students, and they are voting.

Smell that? That’s the smell of freedom. Also, American college students don’t shower much.

Are you with them – or are you against them? Political nihilists beware: the jaded, “The-electoral-college-it’s-a-broken-system-f**k-I’m-moving-to-the-Moon” attitude won’t get you anywhere this year, because cynicism is out and passion is in! If it’s such a big stick up your ass, go vote for Bob Barr or something. If he’s not on the ballot, write-in “John from College Candy.” But please, do go and vote.

And what about this evening? You probably don’t have anything important to do while you watch poll results stream in, and “Nation’s First Black President” or “Nation’s First Woman Vice President” are both perfectly acceptable reasons to skip all your classes tomorrow. This means you should drink! Read More »

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Candy Dish: It’s Election Day!

November 4, 2008 - 10:30 am By CC Staff

Did Obama give McCain the finger?

Who needs a man? Go to the movies alone!

Someone got the axe at Grey’s Anatomy.

OMFG. He’s so hot.

The election night drinking game.

What happens if the other dude wins?

So, Joe the Plumber didn’t get with that chick from SNL…

Tips for acing every class.

You’ve done your civic duty – now treat yourself!

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Candy Dish: It’s Time To Vote, People

November 3, 2008 - 6:29 pm By CC Staff

Seriously, people, let’s Rock the Vote tomorrow.

Paris Hilton hates how guys use her for sex!

Everyone’s preparing for election day.

Heidi Klum is scary.

Dead people are voting in Ohio!

The funniest Wikipedia page ever.

Are you an informed citizen?

You can be a Guitar Hero…for real!

In case you need a little push to get out and vote.

The election is gonna require some heavy drinking.

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Can You Date Someone on the Other (Political) Team?

November 3, 2008 - 12:30 pm By Lauren - University of Michigan

With politics boiling over all around us people are becoming quite polarized. I know that I have had many a fight with my right-leaning sister-in-law (whom I normally LOVE) that would have turned to blows had my brother not jumped in (literally) to break them up. It wasn’t like I planned to fight with her; I just couldn’t believe the things she was saying and, before I knew it, I was biting off her head and spitting at her.

What can I say? I’m very passionate.

Which made things a bit difficult for me recently when I met a wonderful guy…whom I soon found out was a Republican (ew). I wanted to like him – really I did – but was it really possible to be with someone who votes for the other party? I mean, it may be just a vote, but doesn’t it all tie back to someone’s beliefs, morals and passion?

I tried to stick it out, but I couldn’t get myself past the fact that he declared his love for Fox News within the first 5 minutes of my arrival.

Don’t get me wrong; there is nothing wrong with Fox News. And there is nothing wrong with Republicans. But someone who makes a bold statement about his love for Fox News is not someone I want to be with. It is one thing to date someone who votes for the other team; it is quite another to date someone who votes for the other team and then declares his love for said team from every pedestal/mountain/tall chair he can find. Read More »

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Oh, Crap, My Big Election’s Tomorrow! Gotta Cram!

November 3, 2008 - 9:30 am By John - UConn

Come Tuesday, it’s gonna be fight or flight, sink or swim, with us or against us. Come Tuesday, the dice are gonna be rolled and the chips will fall where they may and they shall inherit the wind. Come Tuesday, it’ll be to be or not to be. Come Tuesday, it is going to be on.

So are you ready to throw down – old school American style?

That’s right, there’s nothing more patriotic than voting, except maybe voting in your authentic replica tri-corner cap with a leg amputation after a Redcoat shot you in the knee. Now, I know we’re all good patriots here, right?

So if you don’t know what you’re doing on the Fourth, here’s your quick and dirty primer.

Electioneering: Don’t Do It

Sort of like Imagineering, except that it’s against the law. Your convictions may be strong as an ancient oak and hot as a raging forest fire, but when you’re at the polls, leave the shirts, buttons, hats, g-strings and any other paraphernalia endorsing a candidate or party at home. Poll workers will require that anything with a candidate’s name, face, logo or political slogan will be either covered up or removed — and there are some things you’d probably rather be wearing while you’re in that giant mass of voting public. Read More »

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“I’ll Use This Weapon on that Devil Horse if I Have To”

October 15, 2008 - 2:30 pm By CC Staff

See more funny videos at Funny or Die


So tonight's the big final debate at Hofstra University.  Important, right?  Really important.  But...is anyone else Palin, McCain, and Obama-ed out?
I almost can't even type their names anymore.  It taxes my brain and my spirit.  So much talking...so much spin...please.let.it.END.
Instead of writing a long article about who I think should be president and why, I'm going to post a hilarious video of Will Ferrell being George Bush and carrying around metal rakes.  It's a much more enjoyable way to digest politics right now.


	
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			G.W.W.E!: Leonardo “Loverboy” DiCaprio
	
	October 10, 2008
	 - 4:30 pm
	By Jess - NYU

	
		[In CC's third installment of G.W.W.E (Guys We Want to Eff), we take on the beautiful and strangely eternally youthful Leonardo DiCaprio.
You may know DiCaprio as the sweet-as-pie mentally challenged kiddo in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, or perhaps you remember him from Titanic -- which you may or may not have seen 4 times and cried like a little baby during each and every viewing. These days, Darling DiCaprio is starring in Ridley Scott's new film Body of Lies, adding the 'tough guy' moniker to his already long list of characters.]
I’m not embarrassed to admit that when I was in 7th grade, I had 102 pictures of Leonardo DiCaprio on my wall.  My room was a virtual DiCaprio museum.  I owned a copy of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet and I had seen Titanic more than twice, Jack’s death causing me to sob each and every time like I had lost a member of my own family.  You see, I was in love with Leonardo.  No one could understand the bond I shared with him — but it was true and it was beautiful.
Back then, I wasn’t really thinking about DiCaprio as effing material, but now that I’m older, I can firmly say that there’s no way you could not want to eff him. Read More »
	
	
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			Join Me in Rocking the Vote for the First Time
	
	October 6, 2008
	 - 10:00 am
	By ccandyblairh

	
		It’s been a while since a turned 18 and became legal, but I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I have never cast a vote — not for a local, state, or national election.  My first opportunity to vote was the midterm elections in 2006, and I just wasn’t informed enough about the House and Senate to make a smart decision.  So I didn’t.
The other thing that paralyzed me, and that made me think it wouldn’t matter if I voted even in the presidential election, was the electoral college.  I’m from good old Massachusetts — you know, the first state to legalize gay marriage, the so-blue-we-don’t-even- see-the-color-red state, the most liberal state in the union. There is never a contest about who wins our state’s votes. In fact, the politicians don’t even try; in the last election, I didn’t see a single presidential campaign ad.
So why bother voting?  My vote amounts to a spit in the wind, and as long as we’re not talking about national popular vote as an option, things are going to stay that way.  Still, though, I felt a renewed urge to cast my vote this year, because more than ever it seems like a year when a tremendous amount is at stake.  Like hundreds of millions of others, I’ve seen my country slowly going down the tubes in the past eight years.  It’s gotten a lot harder to be proud of my country, and I see the ideals it stands for increasingly obscured by smoke.
That’s when I found out that several states — including my college’s state of New Jersey — have voted to pledge their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular election.  Hot damn, my vote counts for one vote again!  It’s a very exciting and rebellious move on the part of several states who are tired of only Ohio and Pennsylvania getting all the love.
So I registered! Read More »
	
	
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