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By Rachel Trainer on 12/6/07
The Iraq war is the most important 2008 election issue to students, according to School of Communication professor Jane Hall, who taught a class in which students conducted a national survey on students and the upcoming election.
In the survey, Hall's "Politics and the Media" class asked college students across the United Status to reveal which topics were most important to them and will be deciding factors in the 2008 elections. The 25 students in the class worked with The Washington Post, produced an entire survey and had their stories about the survey published on the Post's Web site, according to Hall.
"It's fairly unusual for a publication to do this," said Hall, a former journalist for the Los Angeles Times.
This was also an opportunity for The Washington Post to publish a survey about college students created by college students, she said.
The process started with the entire class discussing topics the students felt were important to today's youth, said Marc Tomik, a senior in the School of Public Affairs who took Hall's class.
In the survey, Hall's "Politics and the Media" class asked college students across the United Status to reveal which topics were most important to them and will be deciding factors in the 2008 elections. The 25 students in the class worked with The Washington Post, produced an entire survey and had their stories about the survey published on the Post's Web site, according to Hall.
Students from around the country weighed in on election '08 in a survey conducted by professor Jane Hall's "Politics and the Media" class. Top responses to some questions on the survey are below: "If the election were held today, which candidate would you vote for?" Obama: 27 percent Clinton: 18 percent Giuliani: 6 percent Edwards: 5 percent Huckabee: 5 percent Paul: 4 percent Undecided or not voting: 19 percent "What is the most important issue to you, personally?" Education: 12 percent Iraq: 12 percent Health care: 9 percent Economy: 8 percent Foreign policy: 6 percent Abortion: 6 percent SOURCE: "Politics and the Media" survey -Allie Feras |
"It's fairly unusual for a publication to do this," said Hall, a former journalist for the Los Angeles Times.
This was also an opportunity for The Washington Post to publish a survey about college students created by college students, she said.
The process started with the entire class discussing topics the students felt were important to today's youth, said Marc Tomik, a senior in the School of Public Affairs who took Hall's class.
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Harry Zack
posted 12/06/07 @ 2:01 PM EST
I wish they would have asked me what my important issues are, namely: lax anti-depressant regulations, my right to wear provocative short shorts in public and being allowed to ride my pogo stick in the nude. (Continued…)
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