With exactly five weeks to go before the presidential election, it seems like campus has become prime stomping ground for get-out-the vote campaigns. Obama has an office on High Street (which, incidentally, is in the former storefront we wanted to get as Chi Alpha's office last year) and various tables set up around campus to register voters. McCain was in Columbus yesterday at Capital University (Lantern article, Dispatch article). USG itself put out an e-mail reminding students to register and apply for absentee ballots before the deadline next Monday. Personally I haven't had time to research the candidates, and I am honestly a little jaded about the American political process in general, but I do feel it is my civic duty and privilege to vote (this being my first presidential election), so I will do the best I can to vote conscientiously.