When Will Staton decided to run for Congress as an independent candidate, he knew he would face tough odds. After all, the Mississippi native has no campaign staff, no party infrastructure and no political experience. But what he did not fully reckon with until he was already in the race was that the...

  The Colgate Political Review talked with Rep. John Mannion, D-N.Y., on April 16th. Mannion represents New York's 22nd Congressional District, which includes Hamilton and the Colgate campus. We discussed issues facing both central New York and the U.S. at large, as well as the role Congress...