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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2004
YDs focus on
door-to-door
campaigning
Hope to sway locals in state election
BY MARK PUENTE
STAFF WRITER
The UNC Young Democrats
have claimed that their grassroots
actions helped the N.C. General
Assembly to be split evenly between
Democrats and Republicans after
the 2002 election.
And the group is attempting
to have a major influence on this
year’s state elections by continuing
those efforts this weekend.
In the waning days before the
2002 election, YD members volun
teered 200 hours to the campaign
of Democratic candidate Alice
Bordsen, who was seeking a legis
lative seat in Alamance County.
The group pounded the pave
ment, hoping to turn out voter
support, and Bordsen won by 97
votes.
“They are just as likely responsi
ble as any other group that helped
influence the vote count,” Bordsen
said. “There is nothing that isn’t
crucial in a close election.”
Tom Jensen, YD’s party affairs
director, said that if it wasn’t for
the group’s efforts, the General
Assembly would be controlled by
Republicans. “If we influenced
a half of a vote for each hour we
spent there, then it made a differ
ence,” Jensen said.
The 300-member group has had
daily campaign events, including
registration drives, phone bank
ing and canvassing neighbor
hoods, planned since the first day
of classes in August.
“Our ‘63 Days of Campaigning’
has focused on going off campus
for the Democratic Party,” Jensen
said. “On every doorstep we pro
vide the information that voters
need.”
Going door to door is the most
beneficial task that college stu
dents perform during an election,
Bordsen said.
Jensen said that by Nov. 2,
the group will have logged about
10,000 volunteer hours on differ
ent campaigns.
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And local politicians have taken
notice of the group’s hard work
and influence and are eager to
work with YD.
Carlos Monje, spokesman for
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate
Erskine Bowles, said that the group
has mobilized voters during the
past few months, and that many
YDs have offered to be interns.
“College students are the most
active and energized volunteers,”
he said. “We have a great partner
ship with the Young Democrats.”
Working with campaigns affords
students an opportunity to see the
democratic process firsthand.
“There is no better way to learn,”
Bordsen said. “They provide a
great service to us.”
Yet a larger college chapter,
the College Democrats at the
University of Michigan-Ann
Arbor, isn’t as actively involved in
statewide campaigns as is the UNC
chapter.
“We are not focusing on local
races,” said Libby Benton, vice
chairwoman of the chapter. “We
are canvassing student areas,
phone banking and having a hot
dog-eating contest.”
On a higher level, the
Democratic National Committee
said college students are the most
valuable tool in any campaign
because of their energy.
“This year has been the most
successful ever for college students
involved in campaigns,” said Brian
Richardson, a DNC spokesman.
“Tens of thousands have become
active on campuses this year.”
Richardson said the Democratic
Party is counting on its student
chapters to make a difference in
key battleground states, such as
Florida and Ohio, by making sure
that voters get to the polls.
“They play an integral part,” he
said. “Young people are fed up, and
they decided to take action.”
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Former analyst criticizes Bush
Says president misuses intelligence
BY MEGAN MCSWAIN
STAFF WRITER
Former CIA analyst Ray
McGovern has been traveling
around the country “to spread a
little truth around.”
McGovern, who is speaking out
along with other members of the
Veteran Intelligence Professionals
for Sanity, presented his views of
the use of intelligence by the Bush
administration Wednesday night
to a casual crowd gathered in the
Hanes Art Center Auditorium.
He said the CIA was started for
two main reasons: to have a central
place for intelligence and to have
a branch of the government that
would “tell it like it is.”
In the last few years, McGovern
said he and his colleagues in the
VIPS have felt the morals of the
system they previously worked for
have not been upheld.
“We’ve been there and done that
and tend to be upset when we see
intelligence messed with,” he said.
When speaking about the issues
surrounding the invasion of Iraq,
McGovern said intelligence was
bad and swayed by politics.
“(But) intelligence had abso
lutely nothing to do with the pres
ident’s decision to invade Iraq,” he
insisted.
McGovern said the intelligence
agencies were not initially asked
about the presence of weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq.
And when they were, he said it
was made clear that the evidence
should support a claim previous
ly made by Vice President Dick
Students raise voices in mock election
BY BRIANNA BISHOP
STAFF WRITER
Although many are under the
legal voting age, students in the
Orange County School district can
still put forth their political opin
ions on the election this year.
Students in the International
Baccalaureate program at Cedar
Ridge High School have developed
a mock election designed to inform
students about candidates and the
election process.
The mock election will be avail
able to all 11 schools in the county.
Students in each grade level'can
participate in the elections.
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Cheney that Saddam Hussein had
begun rebuilding nuclear weapons
programs.
McGovern said evidence like
this, and a false report that Iraq
was trying to buy uranium, is what
the administration used to con
vince Congress to approve the dec
laration ofwar.
“What happened to the intel
ligence process and the folks run
ning it now is outrageous, but not
half as outrageous as what hap
pened to our constitution,” he
said.
One audience member brought
up the conspiracy theory that the
federal government was aware of
the Sept 11,2001, terrorist attacks
before they occurred.
McGovern was quick to assert
that he did not believe in this con
spiracy theory but thinks there was
not enough attention paid to the
intelligence.
But he did not discredit the
idea that Bush might have used
the Sept. 11 attacks as a catalyst to
move forward with an invasion of
Iraq.
“It was an incredibly cynical
manipulation of the trauma we all
felt,” he said.
He added that the 9/11
Commission found there were
so many people to blame that it
would be better to not blame any
one and concluded that Sept. 11
was unavoidable.
McGovern also said he thinks
the commission should have placed
blame. He said that if the informa
tion the CIA director possessed had
The program includes presenta
tions by IB students and the chance
to cast a mock vote on the Internet.
The ballot offers choices for
president, state governor, state
lieutenant governor, U.S. senator
and U.S. representative.
“It’s a great learning opportunity
for the students,” said Ryan Miller,
the district’s instructional technol
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about the democratic process and
the country we live in.”
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Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern speaks Wednesday night in Hanes Art
Center about the decision-making process leading up to the war in Iraq.
been noticed, the attacks could
have been avoided.
McGovern also criticized the
press for not providing the public
with adequate information.
International intelligence con
cerning America has been leaked
to news agencies and has been
printed in other countries’ media,
but not in the United States, he
said.
“I think it is important that kids learn
that if they say something, they can make
a difference. ...It can he implemented.”
HEATHER MANDELKEHR, STUDENT
Creativity, Action and Service.
The mock elections will help ful
fill hours for the creativity aspect
of the requirement, said Heather
Mandelkehr, a junior IB student.
The IB students will go to
the county
next week to present information
about the elections and candi
dates, said Abi Whitling, a junior
IB student.
The presentations will be non
partisan.
After the presentations, she
said students can vote online
for candidates of their choice at
http://research.zarca.com/clients/
Orange/survey.aspx?sid=ll.
When students log in to vote,
they will be sent to different pages,
depending on the grade level they
choose, Miller said.
The site first prompts students
to choose their school from a list.
Students are then asked to pick
their grade level, age, gender and
history teacher before they vote.
The results of the elections will
be posted on the Web site.
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McGovern added that if intel
ligence members in his time had
known the evidence was false, the
director would have anticipated
it being leaked and printed in the
American press.
“In a very real sense, we don’t
have free press anymore,” he said.
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next week, the site will include a
database that sorts the results into
categories such as grade level, said
Rachael Benedict, a junior in the
IB program.
So far, the program has had a
lot of feedback from elementary
schools, Benedict said.
Ashley Summers, a junior in the
IB program, said it is important to
get students involved.
“I think that with this election,
so many young people are getting
involved,” Summers said.
She added that the program
teaches kids that they do not have
to be influenced by their parents’
political views.
The program hopes to clear up
misconceptions among younger
students, Mandelkehr said.
“I think it is important that kids
learn that if they say something,
they can make a difference,” she
said. “If we start this now, they can
see how if they make a decision, it
can be implemented.”
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.