On Tuesday our POL 312 class conducted our Exit Poll. It was a pretty exciting time considering we had spent a good amount of the semester preparing questions for the poll and helping eachother with ideas on question order, wording and other topics. Here is my recap of how the day went and some of our results. . .
As a class, we seemed to spent the majority of our time conducting the poll near the Milner Library and inside of the Bone Student Center. Considering the Bone was the polling place, it made sense that the majority of the people willing to take a poll about the elections would be in this central area. I personally was able to grab about 4-5 people in this area (all students) before moving to south campus and the College of Business. In the COB, I found that less people were informed that November 2nd was indeed election day. Even with little knowledge, I found another 5-6 people who were willing to take the poll and support our class results.
As a class, we ended up having 212 people take our poll. This was a fair number and we found the following interesting about our results.
-The majority of the people who took our poll were white in ethnicity and christian in religous faith
-The majority of those answers poll questions voted "democratic" and listed themselves as "liberal"
-The economy/jobs were listed as the primary concern on both a national and state level
-I found it interesting that some people (nearly 50%) said they still had trust with the governor position in Illinois
-Those who voted for Obama in the '08 election primarily voted Democrat once again. This differs from national research.
I thought the stats about the governor were the most interesting results we had. Mainly because the reasons that both sides listed were pretty intriguing. I assumed most people would have no trust whatsoever in the governor, but our results proved different. I found it pretty interesting that most people who still had some trust wrote out more of an explanation than those that have no trust in the governor.
ReplyDeleteI agree that conducting the election day poll was a success and that it was interesting that people seemed to have a fair amount of trust in the governor position. I was a part of the group that worked on those questions and I remember thinking the results were going to be the opposite and that people would not have trust. The rough draft of the question asked specifically about Rod Blagovich so maybe if we had kept it more specific more people who have answered with distrust. It was a fun time putting together this poll and administering it.
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