Shannon Frederick

Precinct Info:

Start Time 11:30 End Time12:15

Taylor Mill Elementary

A 135 Hands Pike #2

5907 Taylor Mill Rd.

Covington, KY. 41015

On Tuesday November 2, 2010, Sarah and I conducted an Exit poll at Taylor Mill Elementary School. The results we came up with were that of twenty total people we came in contact with. Fourteen of the twenty said yes they would participate and six said no thanks. Our tallies in the end were favored to Rand Paul with thirteen votes and Jack Conway, one.

This was a different experience because I was never into anything with elections, considering I have never voted before. We came across people who were more than willing to give us there anonymous vote as they exited the building along with one lady I called the Devil because she was mean and was the one person of the day who did not want to be bothered. I was glad to get out of class for a day and hang out with my class mate because we were able to talk about odds and ends and get different perspectives on the project.

An elderly man came up after he put his vote in our box and asked what the project was for. We told him we were with NKU and that we were just getting a class project together. This man being older, say sixties, gave us the grandpa speech that we get from all of our parents or grandparents who have been in the War’s or grown up in the long background of politics. He rambled on for about ten minutes about the new President and politics but we just agreed with everything he said because I do not like to give my opinion about subjects like these. I like to keep my thoughts to myself but I was more than happy to listen to him because it was interesting to know and understand people’s thoughts on the new age elections.

When we first got to the school there was no one there but the poll people. We sat out on a cold concrete bench for about forty five minutes doing the project. There were young folks and older folks who came in with their families, and they even had kid voting for the youngsters which I thought was pretty cool because I do not recall ever being able to get involved when I was younger.
The tallies at the end showed a strong sway to one side of the candidates and it allowed me to see how people really feel about politicians. Out of the twenty members we had participated only one voted for Conway. This experiment let me see beforehand what the real results of the ballot would be and I think that it was a close, but good election this year.