Ah, the birth of the SMU Democrats' blog

During a politically centered conversation over bacon cheeseburgers at Whataburger, SMU Political Science Symposium President Cynthia Halatyn suggested that the SMU Democrats should have their own blog, a la Burnt Orange Report, and thus, Blue @ SMU was born.

Wait... there are Democrats at Southern Methodist University? You bet there are. And we make up for our minority status at this Republican and Conservative minded institution of higher learning by being loud. Although it's hard to find college students that aren't apathetic about politics, our small band of liberals combats the right-leaning attitudes on campus and tries hard to get our message out to the student body.

This blog will serve as another tool to get that message out. We may not have the outside funding that the Young Conservatives of Texas' SMU Chapter gets to print and distribute their newsletter, but we have the power of the internet. It's not something all students can read in class instead of listening to their professors, because most of the liberal arts classes are held in buildings without wireless, but it is something that you can read while you're procrastinating in Fondren Library instead of studying for Professor Kobylka's midsemester exam. We can write more and more often with a blog than with a weekly four page newspaper, or with 500-700 word editorials in the 4 day a week campus newspaper.

This blog will cover our opinions on current political events, starting with midterm elections and the Texas gubanetorial race. So get ready, SMU, because the Democrats on campus just got a whole lot louder.