For the diversity event
I went to the lecture by Candy Crowley.
She is CNN’s chief political correspondent and was the moderator for a
presidential debate for the 2012 election.
She explained how campaigns work and the process they go through. Basically it was her stating statistics about
the election with questions by the audience at the end. Some of the information I didn’t already know
so it was nice to learn something new.
Candy Crowley brought
her perspective of the election, which was thought-provoking since she was involved
in the election. She talked about how
unusual this election was compared to those in the past. One of the big shockers was with the suburbs. Usually Democrats win the city’s population
vote and the Republicans win the rural vote, making the winner of the suburbs
the overall winner. In this case it was
different because Romney won the suburbs, but not president. This is where the statistics were
important. This year the ages from 19-29
voted more than in the past and over half voted for Obama. Which was one of Obama’s biggest advantages
to win president.
There were interesting
parts in a not so interesting speech, I thought. She explained what worked for each person in
their campaign and how the statistics showed the difference. Although politics come as a bore usually they
are important and Candy Crowley helped the results to be a little bit more attention-grabbing.
Overall it was a descent event to attend.
