presidential Election

I went to the student center to give survey. Then I went to the restaurant to give survey, so I could get view points outside the collage environment. I will talk about my result first. First of all, Carbondale has lots of Democrats. (8/9) I had no republicans in my survey. Second, even though some people think Hillary has more experience than Obama, (4/9) none of them says that experience is more important than uniting people and offering change. Base on this and because 7/9 people say Obama has a better chance against McCain shows there is more support for Obama. 8/9 people say they know about the Electoral College system and 8/9 people answer it is not fair. Finally, Florida and California are thought to be the most important state in general election. Each of them has 7 votes out of 27.
The group result is also similar with my personal result. The results of many questions are about the same. The only noticeable difference is Electoral College system. 26 out of 34 people say they know about it, and 22 out 34 people say it is not fair. Also, the group result of survey shows California to be the most important state in general election, (27/87) the next states were New York, Texas and Florida. (Each of them has 12/87.)

This result is not very surprise to me. The reason is I know already many collage people support Obama more than Hillary, and this town, Carbondale, IL, is the one of collage town. First, collage people want changing. The reason is why since about 24 years ago until today two families make 3 presidents, who are Bill Clinton, George Bush Senior, and Bush Junior. However, the belief for the president from people is almost gone. Because people believe that it is not good that many problems of relationship with other countries and etc just like today’s situation of America. If you here the speech of Obama or Hillary, you will know the difference. Most of all of Hillary’s speech is about the same with the politician such as before. She probably has more experience than Obama, maybe that is why she talks a lot of what she is going to do after she become the president. However, if you here Obama’s speech, he keeps saying about changing of this country. He inspires people what can we do together for this country. This makes Obama seems like the great leader. People who were educated more than normal, want to change and they believe that Obama will do.
I do not understand only just one thing. Some people choose the state, which seems important state in the general election, for California, New York and Illinois. (California : 27/87, New York : 12/87, Illinois : 8/87). Those states always support Democrat. Why people think these states are important…? This is my only one question about this survey.