Andrew Golis

hello lonely reader. thanks for coming back. I’m going to try to start writing again after a long hiatus. Just to update you:

My time since I last posted regularly (before the US Pres. election) has consisted of being depressed about the state of the country (occassionally drunk), preparing to run my best friend and roommate’s run for undergraduate president of Harvard, eating turkey with my family, running my roommate’s half-successful (I’ll explain this in a moment) campaign, and not going to classes. I’ll post more of my thoughts on the campaign, especially in terms of lessons I think I’ve learned about politics in general, a little later on.

Suffice to say, the campaign was only half-successful. My roommate was elected President with more votes than anyone has ever recieved for the same office. Turnout was a record high of 4000 and he won by almost 500 votes. Unfortunately, our great friend and beloved Veep did not win. While they ran together, people are allowed to split their tickets and, for reasons that include dishonest negative campaigning, insider politics at the campus paper and bad journalism in general, Clay lost by 96 votes. It was very depressing. So, we’ve been experiencing a very confusing set of emotions for the last 24 hours- a bittersweet combination of excitement and tremendous and self-righteous disappointment. I guess that in and of itself is probably an interest contrast and lesson for politics in general.

Anyway, it was a fascinating campaign where race, experience, negative campaigning, insider v. outsider and many other political dynamics could be seen quite clearly. I’ll write more about each in the next week or so.

Anyway, welcome back, come back and read more soon!

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