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New Hampshire Student Primary Convention

The Student Primary:

The convention wasn’t only about the campaign process, it was called The New Hampshire Primary student convention, but it wasn’t only about the New Hampshire Primaries. The convention consisted of panel discussions, about a wide range of political issues. The panels covered topics ranging from gun control to drug reform, to foreign policy, to the challenges of the country’s fiscal policy. I felt the convention was meant to give us the students,a feel for the challenges and real life issues that face the american public. The issues that the general public face should be the same issues the government and presidency are concerned with. The panel discussions highlighted the main concerns of policy making in today’s day and age, every political science student’s interest. The convention was hardly about the candidates and the issues they stand on, it was more about us the students, and our take on problem solving, except when the actual candidates spoke to us at the convention.

Being that the convention was in New Hampshire, the home of grassroots politics, there was an emphasis on the importance of grass root politics, many discussions were about grassroots and how to build a career from the bottom up. There were also workshops on how to set up organizations or start efforts that will help us getting involved in the policy making process. - Khalil Endisha

Marco Rubio spoke at a small town hall meeting we attended in Milford, New Hampshire where our class took up the front and second row. Despite our large presence representing the younger generation, Rubio paid less attention to us than other candidates who we encountered during the week. Other candidates went out of their way to answer our questions and acknowledge our presence. Rubio only answered one of our questions during the meeting but spent time taking photographs with us after. - Melika Zand (Pictured above with Senator Rubio)

Volunteering for campaigns is not as easy as it sounds. There are two different kinds of volunteering and that is making phone calls and canvassing. At Hillary’s headquarters in Manchester, there were about 10 of us who volunteered to make calls on Tuesday night. When you make phone calls you sit in a room with a bunch of other volunteers and campaign staffers and you have a list of residents in the area who are registered voters. The goal is to call them, ask who they are supporting in the primary, and depending on the response, you either try to sell them on a particular candidate or let them go if they are for sure not going to vote for your candidate. -Samantha Lewis (pictured above with Secretary Clinton)