POLL: OBAMA BY A LANDSLIDE
At a speech on Monday in Canton, Ohio, Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama urged supporters not to get complacent before Election Day next week.
“Don’t believe for a second this election’s over,” he said.
But had his audience been Yale, the Illinois senator might have been more at ease. In a Yale Daily News poll e-mailed to the entire undergraduate population this week, 81 percent of students said they would vote for Obama on Tuesday or have already mailed in absentee ballots for him. Only 12 percent said they are opting for the Republican candidate, Sen....
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Trolling on the YDN? Say it ain't so, Joe (the Plumber)!
While an Obama victory is not guaranteed, per se, it is looking extremely likely at this point. Rather than basing an expectation on the fate of past Democratic candidates who were in battles that looked quite different from the current race, how about we go with some good ol' statistical analysis on the latest data? Check out:
www.fivethirtyeight.com
www.electoral-vote.com
.. Or, for that matter, even most right-wing websites at this point.
Cheerfully,
- ATSG
How is that for "diversity" at Yale?
Re: #4
Imagine that, a whole bunch of smart people all coming to the same conclusion.
But thanks for trying to make this an issue of diversity. The University does not admit, or adjust its enrollments, on the basis of electoral preferences.
You might see more young Republicans here if there were more young Republicans in general, but that party has done a fairly good job of alienating young voters thoroughly.
Shouldn't you say something about how this poll was in no way scientific? The response biases alone should have warranted a comment in the article.
what percent of student body participated in the poll?
This poll shows that very high levels of diversity at a university = students at that university will tend to vote against political parties that have descended to the level of racist supremacist hate groups in their messaging.
Yale has an ROTC program now, which means they receive federal money. That means they have to be fair and open minded when it comes to political issues now and present all arguments. I am sponsoring an investigation into the school and demanding political fairness. The one sided bias has to stop, or the government will stop it.
I also think that most people who vote McCain will not say so in public, especially considering the overwhelming bias at this academic institution favoring Obama. You have to do what everyone else is doing.
"This poll shows that very high levels of diversity at a university = students at that university will tend to vote against political parties that have descended to the level of racist supremacist hate groups in their messaging."
You mean racial diversity at Yale ? huh...Diversity breeds contempt. Yale is also overwehlmingly
Jewish...Diversity...Right...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0z8zK4vaC4
#5... you don't have to be intelligent to go with the masses. That's kind of the point, isn't it? While there may be fewer conservatives/republicans at Yale, they all tend to be quite smart, seeing as they have to constantly defend themselves. You don't need to be intelligent to be a liberal at Yale, because you never have to justify your views. I second the criticism of Yale's lack of political diversity, but I'm not sure there's a way to do anything about it.
Hellooo jimmy carter! Again.
I'm happy that Yale has an ROTC program now. They will have federal oversight now.
We, um, don't.
We have a deal with a nearby ROTC program (NROTC, I think), but there is no Yale ROTC to my knowledge.
Why are so many Yalees openly socialist, but they attend a private school ? Why does their support of big government stop when it comes to this issue ? More hypocrisy...
The only way Yale can be reigned in for educational political fairness, is if they recieve federal funding. No federal funding, no federal oversight.
What's wrong with Jimmy Carter?
@18:
When the best thing to happen under your presidency was the Miracle on Ice, and your handling of a Middle East crisis (the Islamic Revolution in Iran) results in 52 Americans being held hostage for over a year, and whose agreed-upon release is then purposely delayed just so it doesn't happen during your presidency (the Ayatollah only allowed the plane to take off back to the States once Reagan had taken the oath of office), then I'd say you've been a pretty inept president.
Well, I'm sure 80% of the Yale student body liked Kerry, Gore and Dukakis too. I am a Obama supporter but he is going to lose. I live in the northeast and the far west, but most folks are inbetween. This is a center-right country, and they'll go for McCain and Carubo Barbi. We are lost.