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Like most college students across the country, Harvard undergraduates appear set to vote overwhelmingly in support of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama when the polls open on Tuesday, according to a recent Crimson survey...
...Crimson 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...
...preparations to “renew” its 12 upperclass Houses, the House Program Planning Committee—including student representatives—recently ventured out of the Harvard bubble in search of sage wisdom from Yale and Princeton. This trip, along with the distribution of a student survey and the creation of the HPPC in the first place, deserves praise, since such actions demonstrate the administration’s interest in obtaining some level of student input during the House renewal process. Yale and Princeton both embarked on large-scale construction and reconstruction projects in the recent past...
...final criticism of the Court’s decision is that a majority of Californians do not approve of same-sex marriage, as evidenced by a 2000 ballot measure to recognize only heterosexual marriages. The ideological terrain has shifted since then, however—a July California Field Poll survey found that 51 percent of voters will likely vote against Prop 8. This Tuesday, voters will have the chance to express their opinions; the fact that they have never voted for same sex marriage before is not an argument for why they cannot now. Gay rights are a perennial source...
...Some argue that it is my civic responsibility to vote. But many voters fail to fulfill a far greater responsibility–understanding the issues. Surveys have repeatedly demonstrated the colossal ignorance of the average citizen. A 2004 Cato Institute analysis of election surveys found that voters were startlingly unaware of relevant information. For example, in the 2000 National Election Study, the average respondent correctly answered only 14.4 questions out of 31. Only 50 percent correctly identified which party controlled the Senate before the election; only 11 percent of the survey respondents could identify the post held by William Rehnquist...