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As the fourth and final winner of the 2019 Class Council Race was announced, an audible gasp was heard throughout Ida Noyes Hall. Matt Newson had not been elected.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cI am in shock right now,\u201d Ma \tWe found campaign manager Sarah Ramirez pacing outside Ida on the phone with key constituents. \u201cWe are trying to figure out what went wrong,\u201d she stated. \u201cMaybe Matt just needed to post one more time in the 2019 Facebook group. Maybe he should have placed more flyers with pun slogans along the Midway. Or maybe the chalk just need to be bigger and more colorful.\u201d<\/p>\n Director of the Institute of Politics David Axelrod discussed the 2019 Class Council Race on his podcast, The Axe Files. \u201cI just don\u2019t get it,\u201d Axelrod said. \u201cChalk drawings are a fool proof campaign technique. In fact, had Obama\u2019s chalk drawings been smaller than McCain\u2019s, we probably would have lost in 2008.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Chase Harrison Oct. 21, 2015 As the fourth and final winner of the 2019 Class Council Race was announced, an audible gasp was heard throughout Ida Noyes Hall. Matt Newson had not been elected. \u201cI am in shock right now,\u201d Mattx sputtered through tears. \u201cI undoubtedly had the best sidewalk chalk drawings of any of the candidates!\u201d Indeed, Matt\u2019s chalk drawings had been the talk of the freshmen class. Multicolored and astoundingly large, the phrase \u201cMatt\u2019s Where It\u2019s At: Vote Matt Newson for Class Council\u201d had coated the Quad for the week up to election. Matt had even drawn on the wall of Reg, a bold strategy he thought would clinch in the election. We found campaign manager Sarah Ramirez pacing outside Ida on the phone with key constituents. \u201cWe are trying to figure out what went wrong,\u201d she stated. \u201cMaybe Matt just needed to post one more time in the 2019 Facebook group. Maybe he should have placed more flyers with pun slogans along the Midway. Or maybe the chalk just need to be bigger and more colorful.\u201d Director of the Institute of Politics David Axelrod discussed the 2019 Class Council Race on his podcast, The Axe Files. \u201cI just don\u2019t get it,\u201d Axelrod said. \u201cChalk drawings are a fool proof campaign technique. In fact, had Obama\u2019s chalk drawings been smaller than McCain\u2019s, we probably would have lost in 2008.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3010,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/3010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}