At every turn, the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign is setting itself apart from those of years past in huge ways. While the country is getting amped up for November, Wellesley is taking stock of some of this election’s most significant issues and trends. Six of the College’s own are here to help guide you through this unpredictable election.
Illustrations by Christian Northeast
At every turn, the 2016 presidential campaign is setting itself apart from those of years past in huge ways. There are more candidates than space on the debate stages, and there is seemingly endless media coverage, more rhetoric, more money, and more activism. While the country is getting amped up with November in sight, Wellesley is hitting the pause button to take stock of some of this election’s most significant issues and trends. Six of the College’s own are here to help guide you through this unpredictable election. They’ll catch you up on how the Black Lives Matter movement and social media are leaving their mark on the campaign, whether the media’s role has gotten too large, why it’s getting harder to conduct a good poll, and why we’re in, as one professor says, “an amazing period in American political history.”
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