Midterm season

By Isa Cruz, Abigail Hebert, Addison Moore, Andrew Shi and HJ Yun

Orient Staff

November 6, 2026

**WATCHING THE WAVE:** Bowdoin students respond to flipped states in the recent midterm elections, most notably Troy Jackson’s victory against incumbent Sen. Susan Collins in a hard-fought Senate race.

As the drama of midterm exam season unfolds on campus, the Bowdoin community still finds time to engage in local politics—whether sending an absentee ballot back home, driving the Vote Mobile or strolling to the polls with Professor Tricia Welsch’s dog, Huckleberry. From roadsides saturated with campaign signs to the explosion of “I voted” stickers, it’s undeniably time for midterms, academic and political.

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