Two days after the official election for Student Services Vice President, candidate Nate Perkins was back at the Arch, handing out flyers bearing his name.
The race for SSVP was thrown to a run-off election being held today when neither of the two major candidates received more than 50 percent of the vote.
Perkins, a McCormick sophomore, said he has a “more guarded optimism” about the results of the election today.
“I’m pretty nervous about it,” he said. “I think definitely the other day put things into perspective. The results were pretty unexpected, I think, for my campaign, so we had to kind of go back and regroup, and come out strong yesterday and today.”
One concern Perkins said he has is that students who voted Tuesday will not vote again today.
“You don’t know where the numbers fell in the original one in terms of the people that tend to only vote once. Did more of those people’s votes make up the 46 percent that I got or the 37.7 percent that Harry got?” Perkins said, referring to his opponent, Hariharan “Harry” Vijayaraghavan.
Perkins said his campaign strategy has changed between Tuesday and today. Originally the campaign had focused on the quality of his message, and his endorsements, to raise support.
“I think the results of the election on Tuesday showed that a big part of this campaign is just getting your name out there because some people don’t pay as much attention to the vice presidential races,” he said.
As for last-minute campaign strategies, Perkins said he’s focusing on getting students to vote.
“Just doing as much as we can to get the word out, get people to vote,” he said.
– Phillip Swarts
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