Presidential Election

I went to Student Center to give the survey. Then I went to the restaurant to give the survey, so I could get viewpoints outside the college environment. I will talk about my result first. First of all, Cabondale 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. Based on this and because 7/9 people say Obama has a better chance against McCain, this shows there is more support for Obama. 8/9 people say they know about the Electoral College system and 8/9 people answer that it is not fair. Finally, Florida and California are thought to be the most important states in the 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 of 34 people say it is not fair. Also, the group result of survey shows California to be the most important state in the general election (27/87), the next states were New York, Texas and Florida. (Each of them has 12/87.)

This result is not very surprising to me. The reason is I know already many college people support Obama more than Hillary, and this town, Carbondale, IL, is collage town. First, college people want changing. The reason is why since about 24 years ago until today two families makes 3 presidents, who are Bill Clinton, George Bush Senior, and Bush Junior. However, the belief in the president from people is almost gone, because people believe that it is not good that many problems of relationship with other countries, etc. just like today’s situation of America. If you hear the speech of Obama or Hillary, you will know the difference. Most of all, Hillary’s speech is about the same as the politicians before. She talks a lot of what she is going to do after she becomes the president. However, if you hear Obama’s speech, he keeps talking about changing this country. He inspires people what can we do together for this country. This makes Obama seems like a great leader. People, who were educated more than normal, want to change and they believe that Obama will do it.