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In the weeks and months leading up to Election Day, American University students have been preparing for the midterms. Many in the AU community spent this election cycle getting out the vote, phone banking and monitoring results.
AU students are famously politically engaged, and this election cycle was no outlier. With lots of involved and passionate students, this year’s midterms were an exciting time to be a student journalist.
Our coverage featured scenes on election night from campus. Our six-person team split up across campus to gather scenes of how the AU community was interacting with Election Day. Fellow News Staff Reporter Ellie White and I wrote and reported on election night events around campus. We attended two parties hosted by campus organizations allowing students to gather and watch the results come in on a live feed.
One was an event hosted by AU College Republicans, and the other was sponsored by the School of Public Affairs and School of Communication Undergraduate Councils and AU’s Leading Women of Tomorrow chapter.
As Steve Kornacki shuffled through papers and excitedly announced results on MSNBC on the screen at the front of the theater, I spoke to students from a variety of backgrounds. Every student seemed excited to be there, and everyone I spoke with was eager to talk politics. While some thought the optimism in the room was too high, others remained hopeful that the election would turn out their way. It seems fitting, then, that America’s most politically active college campus would show up for one of the most anticipated midterm elections in recent history.
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