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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Updated: Emotional Obama thanks campaign workers after winning re-election

November 8, 2012

Updated, 8 p.m. Thursday: The Obama campaign this evening posted a full version of the president's remarks to his campaign staff the morning after Election Day. Original post: A misty-eyed President...

Chicago residents watch election night returns on a big screen CNN put up on the Thompson Center in Chicago. Young people like those at the Election Night watch party were pivotal in re-electing President Barack Obama, according to a new analysis.

Electoral analysis: Youth vote decisive in some battleground states

November 8, 2012

Northwestern students may have woken up Wednesday morning to President-elect Mitt Romney if it were not for their peers’ votes, according to exit polls in Tuesday’s presidential contest. Early estimates...

Bryant Smith (Weinberg and Bienen 12) casts his vote Tuesday afternoon in Parkes Hall. Northwestern students and Evanston residents alike came to the on-campus polling center to submit their ballots for the election.

The Week That Was: Week of Nov. 4

November 8, 2012

ASG passes Sandy resolution The East Coast faced devastating Superstorm Sandy last week. Some families are still experiencing power outages and spending their week in the dark, while others are faced...

Muller: Better off after America elects pragmatism over ideology

Muller: Better off after America elects pragmatism over ideology

November 8, 2012

The last year was a political rollercoaster nobody could get off of, and everybody was tall enough to ride. Although there were points where we were stuck, where we were horrified and where we felt like...

First lady Michelle Obama, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden (left to right in foreground) greet supporters at an Election Night watch party at McCormick Place in Chicago. The president was elected to a second term Tuesday;

‘More determined, more inspired than ever’: Obama gets four more years in White House

November 7, 2012

CHICAGO — President Barack Obama defeated former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Tuesday to secure a second term that he vowed to pursue with the same resolve that catapulted him to the White House...

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