September : Lecture #2

"The Importance of the Minority Vote"

The Black Caucus at VCU held this lecture for young voters to examine the views of the two candidates for the upcoming election. They had one African American speaker, Dr. Mabel Wells for the Democratic party, and one for the Republican party, Dr. Carl Randall. Both speakers were asked the same series of questions and then each given a chance to answer. Dr. Wells definitely seemed to get a better response from the crowd. She answered each of the questions in a very clean, clear, to the point manner, while Dr. Randall seemed to dance around the questions and leave the audience confused.
"Besides gender, race, and age, what seperates this election from previous elections" was one of the questions asked. Dr. Wells responded with a series of different aspects including how people are upset about war and the economy, how the candidates are more interesting than previous elections, how the American public is getting more involved with politics. Dr. Randall responded with "nothing". He then responded that age, gender, and race were the only differences.
Overall, both speakers gave a lot of information about each of the candidates platforms and their expectations for the upcoming election, however, Dr. Wells got her points across to the audience much more effectively, in my opinion.