‘New Hampshire’ Category

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Why Horse and Buggy?

MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE — Just arrived at the ABC News/Facebook presidential debate… by horse-drawn carriage. We did the same thing in Iowa last month. Why? Watch the video to find out. New here? Check out our Candidate Challenge. (more…)

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Friday, January 4th, 2008

On to New Hampshire… by Horse and Buggy

MADISON, WISCONSIN — We’re headed to the ABC News/Facebook debates in Manchester, New Hampshire. Looks like the field of candidates is narrowing, and other candidates will be excluded from this weekend’s debates. Click the screen shot from Yahoo! News for more.

ABC Debates

Last month we presented a first in a series of trips we’ll be taking to hot spots of the presidential campaign… by horse drawn carriage. Why? (more…)

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Candidate Challenge: John McCain

Fourteen down, two to go! Senator John McCain became the latest presidential candidate to respond to our Candidate Challenge and chat with us about the state of our voting system. This time it was at Southern New Hampshire University at the latest MTV/MySpace Presidential Dialogue. (more…)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Liveblogging @ John McCain MTV/MySpace forum

Jacob @ McCain MySpace

SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY — Greetings from the press filing center at the MySpace/MTV presidential dialogue with John McCain. You can watch the event, co-hosted by WT? Advisory Board member Gideon Yago, live now on MTV and online at MySpace. Speaking of MySpace, check out our new MySpace profile by clicking the thumbnail at right. (more…)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

New Hampshirites are thankful for a day to vote

Turkey

The primary election schedule tango came a step closer to its grand finale yesterday, as New Hampshire held tight to its traditional role as the “first in the nation” primary election. New Hampshire’s Secretary of State annouced New Hampshireites will vote January 8th, five days after the Iowa caucus.

The Michigan Supreme Court also ruled that state could vote January 15th, which is apparently what was holding up New Hampshire. The New York Times has the full story.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

WT? advisor hosts MTV/MySpace presidential dialogue

Why Tuesday? advisory board memeber Gideon Yago will host the first MTV/MySpace Presidential Dialogue this Thursday. He’ll be working along side MTV News correspondent SuChin Pak and WashingtonPost.com political reporter Chris Cillizza. The first candidate to sit down with MTV will be Democrat John Edwards. Here’s the info on the event:

The MTV/MySpace Presidential Dialog (sic) with John Edwards will take place Thursday at 12 p.m. ET. The entire dialogue will be webcast live through both MTV.com and MySpaceTV.com, and will then be rebroadcast on mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, later in the day.

For more information, click here. Speaking of MTV, don’t forget to sign up and add us as your friend on MTV’s new pro-social networking site, thinkMTV.

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Roundup: Last week in election reform

It was a busy week for us behind the scenes at Why Tuesday?, and in the world of election reform. What is election reform exactly? And who is the guy in the photo? Get the answers, and much more election reform news, by clicking below. Photo by Cheryl Senter for the New York Times.

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Why Tuesday? is an effort to make America’s democracy stronger through increased voter participation. We work to make election reform an issue that our politicians cannot afford to avoid.

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