Andrew Isler

11/07/2010

“Exit polling”

MA 115

When Andrew Acree and me, Andrew Isler, decided to go to the voting center in Newport, we figured we would have a lot of people willing to help us out on this little exit polling experience. But that was not the case, it seems that most people are simply afraid to let you in on what they decide to do politically. But yet, were not afraid to let you know what they wanted done politically for their city when it comes to making improvements. Which included them complaining that there was a new city building when they could be spending the money on “better“ stuff according to an older couple exiting the polls. It was an interesting day, we had people pretend that they were going to help us out in our ventures with exit polling but then slipped through our grasp and ran away before we knew it. We had people ignore us completely and just walk on by as if we were not there talking to them. We had people very willing to help us, but still seemed skeptical, but also people who were willing to help with no skepticism at all. The election results showed the same as our own personal election results at the Campbell County courthouse in Newport Kentucky, with Rand Paul being the victor over Jack Conway, it was a really tight and close exit poll election but Paul was the winner with his 8 votes to Conway‘s 4 votes. My overall thoughts of the exit polling experiment was that, no matter how anonymous you make it seem the experiment is, people will always have more faith in the government system rather than the people’s system. They trust the polls, not the citizens doing their own polls, or even students doing a study, it’s just an odd thing I have noticed. The next time that I try one of these polling experiments, I will make sure I am prepared for it, and the reactions that I might get.