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FARMINGTON: Students active in campaigns
by Outspoken on Sun Nov 09, 2008 5:50 am
FARMINGTON: Students active in campaigns
BY VALERIE TUCKER
Correspondent Morning Sentinel
FARMINGTON -- For nearly a year, Maine students knocked on doors, sat hunched over pages of voter lists, made thousands of phone calls to strangers, and drove candidates through rural neighborhoods and down long dirt roads.
Every day, for the past two months, young Republicans and Democrats at the University of Maine at Farmington met with their peers to plan campaign strategies. They also volunteered at their county political headquarters.
Several are students in James Melcher's Practical Politics class, and their volunteer time was also required homework. The professor of political science teaches this class during election years, and he makes campaign work a requirement.
"You choose the campaign with which you will be involved. You should pick just one campaign or party so as to be more deeply involved, and more importantly, a specific campaign effort," Melcher told the students at the beginning of the semester.
"Choose a campaign in which you believe and for which you will be willing to work for a minimum of 10 hours a week."
Many of Melcher's students started the semester after their party caucuses in February, and many were already veterans of the political process.
Tyler LeClair, a junior, worked for Sen. Susan Collins' campaign. LeClair's classmate, Keith Mahoney, R-Farmington, ran a challenging campaign against incumbent Rep. Janet Mills, D-Farmington, for her House seat in the 89th district. A junior at UMF, Mahoney received 1,434 votes, and Mills received 2,807 votes.
LeClair started in politics in the eighth grade, and he said he was sure he'd be running for office in the future. He was recovering Thursday from an exhausting schedule of knocking on doors and passing out literature in Franklin County. He had started as a poll watcher in Farmington at 8 a.m. Tuesday but stayed awake nearly all night, watching returns.
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/5586672.html
BY VALERIE TUCKER
Correspondent Morning Sentinel
FARMINGTON -- For nearly a year, Maine students knocked on doors, sat hunched over pages of voter lists, made thousands of phone calls to strangers, and drove candidates through rural neighborhoods and down long dirt roads.
Every day, for the past two months, young Republicans and Democrats at the University of Maine at Farmington met with their peers to plan campaign strategies. They also volunteered at their county political headquarters.
Several are students in James Melcher's Practical Politics class, and their volunteer time was also required homework. The professor of political science teaches this class during election years, and he makes campaign work a requirement.
"You choose the campaign with which you will be involved. You should pick just one campaign or party so as to be more deeply involved, and more importantly, a specific campaign effort," Melcher told the students at the beginning of the semester.
"Choose a campaign in which you believe and for which you will be willing to work for a minimum of 10 hours a week."
Many of Melcher's students started the semester after their party caucuses in February, and many were already veterans of the political process.
Tyler LeClair, a junior, worked for Sen. Susan Collins' campaign. LeClair's classmate, Keith Mahoney, R-Farmington, ran a challenging campaign against incumbent Rep. Janet Mills, D-Farmington, for her House seat in the 89th district. A junior at UMF, Mahoney received 1,434 votes, and Mills received 2,807 votes.
LeClair started in politics in the eighth grade, and he said he was sure he'd be running for office in the future. He was recovering Thursday from an exhausting schedule of knocking on doors and passing out literature in Franklin County. He had started as a poll watcher in Farmington at 8 a.m. Tuesday but stayed awake nearly all night, watching returns.
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/5586672.html
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