This post is going to be about my Crystal Ball, which I had to do last week. So for NSL we had to predict the results of the elections in our assigned state. Some students had partners if they had larger states, but I was alone. I was alone because I had one of the smallest states in the country. I had North Dakota.
Now North Dakota is actually an interesting state. It's composed of 700,000 conservative Americans. Apparently, however, North Dakota is something of a swing state. Calling this election was kind of fun, and there was significant research required.
Because North Dakota is not exactly the most interesting state to most, there weren't a lot of resources available. The fact that the local political parties didn't have great websites didn't help. In fact, the local democratic party had to merge with the socialist party a ways back because the socialist party kept...winning.
Now North Dakota has one House, one Senate and the Governorship up for election this year. The House and Gubernatorial races were easy to call, as the Republican candidates had major leads already. The state was also guaranteed to go for Romney. The Senate seat was however hotly contested. In fact, I called the race for the Democrat.
The experience itself was interesting, and maybe I will do it again next year, on my own. It was fun finding out what the people in an area cared about, who would turn out to vote, and for whom they would vote.
PS. I am a bad person for not doing the last four independent blog posts :(
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