Survey results
By Samantha Cotten & Adrian Kendrick
Editor-in-Chief & Managing Editor
With election 2008 only six days away, Indiana voters along with the rest of America will have to make one of the most crucial decisions of their lifetime-whom will they select as the next president of the United States.
This election is predicted to be one of the most important elections in the history of America, with Democratic nominee Barack Obama and Republican nominee John McCain going head to head to win every vote possible. According to The Indianapolis Star, the polls are close in Indiana and Hoosiers are seeing a tough fight for the state’s 11 electoral votes.
The Reflector polled 350 University of Indianapolis students in hopes of discovering their preferred political candidates, two weeks prior to the election.
The median age represented was 19.7 years old. Convenience sampling was used in this study, the survey allowed the students body to voice their opinion concerning the upcoming election, with a five percent margin of error.
According to the survey results the majority of the students polled identified themselves as Democrat with 44 percent. Thirty-six percent of respondents said they were Republicans and 20 percent of students claimed to be independent voters.
The results showed that many students claimed Republican were deciding to choose Democrat Barack Obama, who led the results with 48 percent of the votes, Republican John McCain obtained 34 percent.
Meanwhile four percent of students said they were voting for another candidate, and five percent were undecided. Overall, 21 percent of UIndy students said they did not plan to vote at all.
In the gubernatorial race students were asked to choose whom they would vote for as governor of Indiana.
Given the large number of out-of-state students at UIndy, in this race students were asked which candidate they would chose if they could vote in the gubernatorial election.
Forty-seven percent of students said they would vote for Republican incumbent Mitch Daniels, who led the polls. Democrat challenger Jill Long Thompson trailed with 27 percent of respondents.
Libertarian candidate Andrew Horning received two percent of the votes, while six percent of students said they were undecided and 21 percent of students said they will not vote in this election.
According to MTV Rock the Vote representative Syrus Yarbrough, if all college students voted they would select the next president. Now more than ever, every vote counts.
