A random sample poll
of 273 students conducted by two political science majors three
weeks before Election Day found 48 percent planned to vote for
President Bush and 44 percent for John Kerry. The rest either
favored another candidate or were unsure.
In a mock election held in the LaFortune Student Center a week
before the election, 570 undergraduates and graduate students
divided their vote this way between the two major candidates:
47.5 percent for Bush, 46.8 percent for Kerry. Bush won among
freshmen and sophomores, Kerry among seniors and grad students.
They more or less split the juniors.
(January 2005)
