“There’s a lot of peer learning,” he added. Though pandemic-era campaign jobs are decidedly not what they used to be, some ambitious college students still opt to focus on the trail. Chie Xu, 21, who also took a semester off and is working with Ms. Salitan, said she felt a strong moral obligation to actively participate in this election — and knew that she would be distracted doing online coursework while quarantined. “I mean it just sort of feels like the world is ending,” said Ms. Xu, who would have been a senior at Yale this fall. “I think people of color, Asian-Americans especially, are not really often the kind of people who are involved in campaigns in this more traditional way — in the phone banking way, in the door knocking way,” Ms. Xu said.

Source: New York Times October 31, 2020 07:00 UTC