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Students say that they have paid close attention to political news amid the longest campaign season in memory and an election that many pundits have termed pivotal. Eighty two percent of respondents said they receive updates about the campaign at least a few times per week, with more than half of those following the news from the campaign trail on a daily basis...
Harvard’s academic-minded student body expressed strong disapproval of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor who has been widely mocked for her folksy style and gaffes in the national press. Palin drew the resounding disapproval of Obama supporters, 89 percent of whom deemed her selection to be a “bad” or “terrible” move on McCain’s part...
...contrast, only 19 percent of McCain supporters had similarly-negative feelings about Obama’s selection of Delaware Senator Joe Biden for his vice-presidential running mate. But of the 95 percent of students who have decided on a presidential candidate, almost a third said that vice-presidential choice bore on their decision...
...administered its questionnaire to a random sample of 1,000 undergraduates using the iCommons polling interface. Harvard FAS ID’s were used as logins to prevent repeat voting and responses from students not included in the survey sample. The poll carried a margin of error of 3.9 percent...
...also seemed optimistic about their efforts paying off. “Definitely there is election fatigue. [But] a lot of independents in New Hampshire are really fans of McCain,” Motley said. The most recent poll by the University of New Hampshire put McCain at 41 percent and Obama at 52 percent of the popular vote in the state. But Zafran said, “The only poll that really matters is the poll on Election...