College organizations promote election
- ajj1545
- Oct 24, 2016
- 2 min read
Truman’s political organizations are trying to inform students about the upcoming elections for all levels of government through a variety of methods from meetings with candidates to viewing debates.

Truman’s College Republicans held an event Oct. 11 with Mike Parson, a candidate for Missouri’s Lieutenant Governor according to Jake Buxton, State Chairman of the Missouri Federation of College Republicans. Buxton says the Truman chapter, like many around the state is focused on volunteering for republican candidates.

“Eric Greitens has a campaign office in Kirksville,” said Buxton. “They’ve been doing a lot of work for them. Roy Blunt has an intern up here who has coordinated a lot of doorknocking up in the Kirksville area. We have college republicans at Truman volunteering to help our county accessors race. We have them volunteering to help with the two district commissioner races. We have them volunteering in all those areas.”
Andy Mangrum, President of Truman’s College Democrats, said that they’ve been trying to inform students through their meetings about candidates and also policies.
“We go over not just the presidential candidate, but we go over the senate, the governor’s race, the county races, but also go over the amendments that are not going to be on the ballot. For like, one, two, three, four, six, and A and then there was supposed to be amendment five, but we even made sure that people knew why there wasn’t an amendment five.”

One of the events they have held besides meetings was a presidential debate viewing party for the last debate on Oct. 19.

Mangrum also says that that they’ve had several candidates such as Jason Kander come to Kirksville to visit students and residents in the Adair County area. He said that Kander is planning to hold a “Get out and Vote” rally for students and Kirksville residents Nov. 7, the day before the election.
According to a “USA Today” article, “Why college students aren’t voting,” it said that students are not as invested in elections because they feel their issues are not addressed. Both Buxton agree that it is extremely important for students to vote this election, particularly in the state races.
Buxton said there are seats currently open in the state government with no incumbent, so whether the seats go democrat, republican or to another party, there will be great change within Missouri’s government.
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