After evaluating some of the survey results in class the other day, I was not very surprised by what I saw. The majority of people we surveyed were college age students and were white, which is not necessarily representative of the country as a whole. We also had a lot of respondents say they are Democratic, which for this particular area was also not necessarily representative.
My group looked at the voting behavior questions and noticed a few interesting pieces. Many voters that say they are Democratic, seem to pretty consistently vote that way also. There is little change between party affiliation and candidate voted for. Also, many first time voters voted for Democratic candidates, which makes sense because we are on a college campus and most college students tend to be more Democratic or liberal in nature.
I found the reasons why people distrusted the government to be pretty amusing, as noted by the PowerPoint we saw in class. It clearly came down to a few men that had tainted the governor's position for the future. The only slightly disheartening response was "Why not?" for those that trusted the governor...
On that same note, many people that I asked to survey were not aware of the election. This wasn't all the surprising given that the midterm elections seem to have a low turnout and it is highly unlikely that college students are going to be coming out in masses to vote. It is pretty clear that most students to not see a connection between their governor or senator and the changes they want to see in IL.
On a lighter note, we got a lot of good responses from people that participated in the survey and it was really cool to see how all the answers matched up.
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