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Obama wins electoral vote, Romney concedes

At time of print, Obama had 303 of the 538 electoral votes to Romney’s 206. Electoral votes from Florida were not yet allocated.

Obama’s success in winning battleground states led to his electoral lead.

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mericans elected another Obama

administration Tuesday. The

president claimed both the

popular vote and the Electoral College.

United States Senator

Ted Cruz Paul Sandler John Myers David Collins

United States Representative,

District 17 Bill Flores Ben Easton

Railroad Commissioner

(Unexpired Term)

Barry Smitherman Jaime O. Perez Josh Wendel

Justice Supreme

Court, Place 2 Don Willett Roberto Koelsch

Justice Supreme

Court, Place 4 John Devine Tom Oxford Charles Waterbury

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Court, Place 6 Nathan Hecht Michele Petty Mark Ash Jim Chisholm

Presiding Judge, Court of Criminal

Appeals Sharon Keller Keith Hampton Lance Stott

Judge, Court of Criminal

Appeals, Place 7

Barbara Hervey Mark W. Bennett

State Board of Education,

District 8 Barloara Caryill Dexter Smith

State Senate, District 5

Charles Schwertner Jeffrey Fox

State Senate, District 12

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Nation decidesObama 303 Romney 206

Stack shifts begin, inspire camaraderie

student bonfi re

More than a century ago, a few Aggies gathered barn wood and garbage to burn what would be-come Aggie Bonfire. Though no longer a school-sanctioned tradi-tion, hundreds of students continue to join every year in the camara-derie and construction of the off-campus student bonfire.

After 12 students were killed in the bonfire collapse in 1999, the University refused to recognize the tradition and students were forced to take it off campus.

Thirteen years later, in the wake of a conference transition and re-newal of old rivalries, student bon-fire continues its purpose of unity and camaraderie among those who participate.

“I first started bonfire when I lived in the dorms on campus,” said Dan Jatem, senior industrial engi-neering major. “As the season went on I had a lot of fun, created strong bonds with my crew and continue to enjoy it.”

The bonfire stack is traditionally topped with a burnt-orange, “t.u.

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Democrats maintain control of Senate

election 2012

Democrats secured a majority in the Senate on Tuesday, snatch-ing Republican-held seats in Mas-sachusetts and Indiana and turning back fierce, expensive challenges in Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin and Connecticut to maintain the control they’ve held since 2007.

With a third of the Senate up for election, Republicans were undone by candidate stumbles. GOP hope-fuls in Missouri and Indiana uttered clumsy statements about rape and abortion that severely damaged their chances and the party’s hopes of tak-ing over. The losses of Senate seats in

Massachusetts and Indiana, combined with independent Angus King’s vic-tory in the Republican-held Maine seat, put the GOP too far down in their already uphill climb.

Democrats held open seats in Vir-ginia, Wisconsin and New Mexico, and were leading in North Dakota shortly after midnight. The only pickup for the Republicans was Ne-braska, where Deb Fischer denied former Democratic Sen. Bob Ker-rey’s bid to return to the Capitol.

Democrats, once on the wrong side of the political math with 23

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He won Ohio, Wisconsin, Virginia, Iowa, New Hampshire, Colorado and Nevada, seven of the nine battlegrounds. The Romney-Ryan campaign and their supporters poured nearly $1 billion into these states with dueling television commercials.

Romney failed to win Massachusetts where he served as governor from 2003 to 2007. Of the battleground states, Romney won North Carolina.

Justin Carpenter, senior political science major and program director for Aggie Democrats, said he watched results come in to the local precinct office.

“I and another girl were involved with the Judy

State decisions◗ Voters a continent apart made history Tuesday on two divisive social issues, with Maine becoming the fi rst state to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote and Washington state becoming the fi rst to legalize recreational use of marijuana.

◗ Colorado voters also voted to legalize marijuana.

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*Numbers reflect results at time of press. Electoral votes from Florida were not counted.

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frat house,” and set on fire the night be-fore the A&M-UT Thanksgiving football game to symbolize the Aggies’ “burning desire to beat the hell outta t.u.” Even though the Longhorns are no longer on the A&M football schedule, Eric Menn, senior redpot — a bonfire leadership po-sition — and agricultural leadership and development major, said bonfire almost remains the same.

“Students can expect to see the same stack, the same fire and the same experi-ence out at bonfire this year and the years to come,” Menn said. “With the excep-tion of a possible change in the color scheme on top, the experience and the spirit of this tradition are constant and things that all Aggies can count on.”

From its humble beginnings as a trash pile in 1907, bonfire has evolved into a five-tier, wedding cake design. The top, or fifth tier, stands at 32 feet high — the same height since the beginning of stu-dent bonfire in 2003. Apart from the de-sire to beat the University of Texas, Menn said camaraderie is at the heart of student bonfire, no matter who plays in the fol-lowing football game.

“The essence of [bonfire] is not about football or who the Aggies are playing on Thanksgiving,” Menn said. “Student bonfire Inc. is very excited about the move to the SEC and has embraced it from the get-go. We have never viewed it as a negative for us. Bonfire is about the Aggie community, building Aggies and bringing them together by working toward a common goal. It is about a com-mon, burning desire for the love of Texas A&M.”

Building bonfire is a process. In Oc-tober, students began cut and spent Sun-day mornings gathering trees to build the bonfire on a donated plot of land. With bonfire nearing its burn date, students be-gin to assemble the structure.

The first full-crew stack shift begins Wednesday, with the centerpole founda-tion already set.

“During stack we actually construct the bonfire stack against the centerpole,” Jatem said. “We’ll start with six-hour shifts then as the date gets closer the up-per leadership will decide on the push schedule.”

After months of work the project be-comes a physical and emotional invest-ment. Students who participate in cut most likely participate in stack, said Dion McInnis, member of the bonfire board of

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Senior redpot Eric Menn climbs into the swings Tuesday evening at the student bonfire stack site.

directors.“Stack is the assembly of all the work

over the season,” McInnis said. “Cut is important because you can’t stack with-out logs, and stack is important because a pile of logs doesn’t look good. [Stack is] when everybody comes together and works together.”

Over the past two years, burn night has been delayed due to drought condi-

tions. Nothing has been determined yet, but McInnis said burn should come at the scheduled time this year.

Bonfire is set to burn Nov. 23 after the sun sets. Former A&M head football coach Jackie Sherrill has been announced as the burn night speaker.

“We are looking forward to Jackie Sherrill,” McLnnis said. “Coach Sherrill alone will be able to turn up the heat.”

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In charge again, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Republicans brought defeat on themselves with their preoccupation with denying President Barack Obama a second term.

“Things like this are what happens when your No. 1 goal is to defeat the president and not work to get legisla-tion passed,” Reid said. “The strategy of obstruction, grid-lock and delay was soundly rejected by the American peo-ple. Now they are looking to us for solutions,” he said in a

separate statement.The results were a bit-

ter loss for the GOP and are certain to prompt questions about the promise and peril of the tea party movement that just two years ago delivered a takeover of the House to the GOP. In 2010, three tea party Senate candidates in Nevada, Delaware and Colorado cost Republicans seats they were favored to win. On Tuesday, a tea party-backed candidate in Indiana denied the GOP a seat that the party had been favored to win, while Fischer and tea party-backed Ted Cruz of Texas prevailed in their races.

Democratic Rep. Joe Don-nelly edged out tea party-backed Indiana state treasurer Richard Mourdock in a race rocked by the Republican candidate’s awkward re-mark that pregnancy result-ing from rape is “something God intended.”

In Massachusetts, Democrat Elizabeth Warren knocked

out Republican Sen. Scott Brown, who had stunned the political world in January 2010 when he won the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s seat. The strong Democratic tilt in the state and President Barack Obama’s easy win over former Gov. Mitt Romney helped the consumer advocate in her bid.

The Massachusetts race was one of the most expensive in the country, $68 million, even though both candidates agreed to bar outside spending.

In Missouri, Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill was considered the most vulner-able incumbent, but Republi-can Rep. Todd Akin severely damaged his candidacy in Au-gust when he said women’s bodies have ways of avoiding pregnancy in instances of “le-gitimate rape.” GOP leaders, including Romney, called on him to abandon the race. Akin stayed in.

The results ensure plenty of new faces in the Senate, many

of them familiar from the House. Republican Rep. Jeff Flake won in Arizona and will join Democratic Reps. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico. In Wisconsin, Democratic Rep. Tammy Baldwin defeated for-mer four-term Gov. Tommy Thompson and will be the first openly gay senator.

In Maine, independent Angus King prevailed over Republican Charlie Summers and Democrat Cynthia Dill in the race to replace Repub-lican Sen. Olympia Snowe, who blamed partisan gridlock in Washington for her unex-pected decision to retire after 18 years in the Senate.

In Texas, Republican Cruz won the seat held by retiring GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchi-son. Cruz will become the third Hispanic in the Senate, joining Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla.

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As far as students are concerned, Carpen-ter said he thinks Obama’s policies are good overall.

“His policies are giving more student aid and promote making a stronger work force,” Car-penter said. “We have made a lot of progress in the last four years. Now this will guarantee the progress isn’t going backwards.”

Carpenter said he feels like Obama’s reform of the student loan system was a very important policy that he put through that doesn’t really get a lot of attention.

The economy was rated the top issue by about 60 percent of voters surveyed as they left their polling places. But more said former President George W. Bush bore responsibility for current circumstances than Obama did after nearly four years in office.

Unemployment stood at 7.9 percent on election day, higher than when Obama took office.

Other than the battlegrounds, big states were virtually ignored in the final months of the campaign. Romney wrote off New York, Il-linois and California, while Obama made no at-tempt to carry Texas, much of the South or the Rocky Mountain region other than Colorado.

In a campaign that traversed contested Re-publican primaries last winter and spring, a pair of political conventions this summer and three presidential debates, Obama, Romney, Vice

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Obama was elected the first black president in 2008, and four years later, Romney became the first Mormon to appear on a general elec-tion ballot. Yet one man’s race and the other’s religion were never major factors in this year’s campaign for the White House, a race domi-nated from the outset by the economy.

Carpenters said he thinks another Obama administration will give Aggie Democrats en-ergy for the next four years.

Andrew Bobo, second year master of public service and administration student at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, said he is not surprised by the outcome.

“I followed [the election results] on CNN,” Bobo said. “It looked like the precincts report-ing later were more heavily Democratic. It is disappointing,; you wish you could hang out and wait, but I think it was the right time to call it.”

In the wake of Superstorm Sandy and the allowance of late voting in New York and New Jersey, Bobo said he does not think that accounting for later votes would have made a difference in the outcomes.

In regards to four more years of Obama-led policy initiatives, Bobo said he thinks a lot of the policies were back-loaded and he doesn’t foresee much change apart from legislation that has already passed.

“A lot of the provisions of Obamacare won’t take effect until his second term. And the fis-cal cliff won’t be resolved by then,” Bobo said. “We are basically at the same place we were when we started. I expect more of the same.” Contributions from The Associated Press

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