November 4, 2008 by Mara Strom
It’s election day. Have you voted yet? You still have an hour left if you’re on the East Coast – and four more hours to vote if you’re out in California.
If you haven’t yet voted, stop reading this post right now, and RUN to your voting poll. If you have voted, read on!
For many of you, this is the first Presidential election in which you have been eligible to vote. What an exciting right of passage. Whoever wins, there will no doubt be big changes on the economic landscape, including the world of financing college. Will there be changes to the federal Pell Grants program, for instance? Time will tell.
Of course, it is not only financial aid issues that are getting students out to vote this year in record numbers. M...