It’s currently 3:08pm and I’m sitting in front of Kenna Hall. Class is about to begin but I wanted to go over my final research topic before I move on with my day. After looking through my survey results I’m starting to see a couple trends that are most likely going to form the majority of my argument. I do have to say the results didn’t surprise me but the way they went against my original research kind of makes it more difficult to talk about.
Findings:
Most people at SCU actually don’t know who remains in the presidential race (as of today). See the charts below?
1 out of 4 people representing the Democratic Party didn’t select the correct candidates who currently remain (Hillary, Bernie, and Donald). About half of those repping the Republican Party answered incorrectly as well. From here I’m going to make the assumption that not enough people are aware of what’s going on in the political race. In hindsight it would have been smart to ask how many people voted or were planning to vote. That could have been a another way to gauge SCU student interest in the political race. Alas, I’ll have to deal without it.
It seems like a lot of my sources have been commenting about the increased demand for young voters to participate in the presidential voting election, and it’s starting to become a reality. Based on the small amount of students who didn’t attend SCU but answered my survey, many of their stats were already much higher. Most had many heated debates regarding political events in general, and almost all were able to correctly answer which candidates remained in the race. Though these two traits certainly aren’t the only determinants for being heavily involved in politics, they certain can tell us quite a few things about the student.
So what we have here is a strong difference between what my sources are saying and what my individual research is telling me.
Sources: Young people are voting more
SCU Students: We don’t partake in political events very often (though obviously there are exceptions).
I’m kinda not sure where to take this now. I mean I’m down to talk about the differences but i’m not down to take an entire 10 pages to counter-argue what all of my research is telling me. Yikes.
I mean I guess that could be my niche where I’ll be able to enter this outlet of my own thought into the bigger picture but quite frankly it’s daunting. I personally think I have only a moderate understanding of the political world at best, and this isn’t going to be very helpful when I’m trying to advocate for greater understanding of the political field. It seems pretty cut-throat to me. Either you get your ideas across correctly or you fall prey to countless criticism on where all your flaws are. Scary stuff.
I’m determined to take a stance on this topic though. One way or the other it’s going to happen, but I’m just not quite sure which direction I should go towards just yet.