I’m trying to not write my political science senior thesis, which is due tomorrow. So instead I’ll digest some tidbit of tonight’s election results. I want to start with the Maroon Endorsement, which was different this year because they endorsed Liaison and College Council candidates.

Lets see if people listened to them. This year the Maroon endorsed:

• Connect Four for Executive Slate
• Louis Potok for Undergrad Liaison
• Nicholas Rodman, David Grossman, Kati Proctor, and Greg Gabrellas for CC 2009
• Aaron Goggans, Prerna Nadathur, Jarrod Wolf, and Jay Kim for CC 2010
• Frank Pucci, Julian Quintanilla, Archibald England, and Matthew Hartman for CC 2011

So how’d they do? Well, using the results we see that they were 6 for 14.

This isn’t great and would really make me question whether the Maroon’s endorsement has much of an effect at all, especially given the wide margins which their endorsed candidates were beaten by the actual winners in the Executive Slate and Liaison Categories (One Campus beat Connect Four by 600 votes and Aliza beat Louis by a little less than 500 votes).

But history tells a different story. In 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004 the Maroon was endorsed the winning Slate three out of four years. The recent changes puts them at 3 for 5 for Executive Slate, which isn’t bad.

In terms of CC and Liaison, they didn’t do as hot. With CC they did best with the class of 2010 then 2009 then 2011. Maybe first years aren’t reading the Maroon as they only elected one of the endorsed candidates. We’ll have to see whether these endorsements take on more importance over time.

Next Section: Turnout!