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We conducted a mock election of fifty students from NCSA to try to get a better picture of the opinions of the younger generation. We mostly polled high school students, and a large majority of the participants were female. After tallying our results, the winner was clear, Barack Obama! The female to male ratio was 36:14, so it is difficult to get an accurate image of how popular each candidate was for each gender, but here are the statistics:
Obama: 69% of females, 71% of males
Clinton: 11% of females, 7% of males
McCain: 2% of females, 0% of males
Huckabee: 2% of females, 7% of males
Undecided: 13% of females, 14% of males
Draw from this poll what you may, but there are only two real discrepancies between the genders. Clinton was more popular in general with females, and Huckabee was more popular with males. As this is just a small example from NCSA, and a very small example of the US, who knows what the elections will bring!
~Chloe
2 comments:
I'm really surprised that out of the people you polled that anyone would vote for Huckabee or McCain, it seems like around NCSA you'd have to go on a hunt for republicans. Anyway, that's interesting that there's still the trend of feminine support for Hilary at an arts high school. Hopefully the poll will prove accurate and Obama will win.
I'm not really surprised that Obama won around here. He's been the big man in our class. I am suprised though about there even being one person on this campus that likes Mike Huckabee. There doesn't seem to be too many republicans on campus, and I have yet to meet someone around here as conservative as Huckabee. I'm totally okay with Obama winning though!
-Morgan Rouse
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