Q: Who are you voting for and why?
A: “I’m voting for Hillary Clinton basically because I believe she is the lesser of two evils in this situation,” said Jamie Arntzen, junior environmental studies major. “As an environmental studies major it is very concerning that Hillary tends to promote fracking as much as she does and that she supports it as a sustainable source of energy, which it’s really not. It’s very problematic for the environment. And when you look at Trump it’s just totally worse. It’s entirely just ‘Oil is great, coal is good.’ Very – I don’t want to say uneducated, but mostly just belligerent views about the environment. I refer to myself as more liberal than conservative, and there’s just a lot of different views I don’t agree with Clinton on some of them but I disagree with Trump on almost all of his.”
Q: Who are you voting for and why?
A: “I’m not voting,” said Jaylin Marshall, senior pre-physical therapy major. “It’s kind of like pick your poison at this point because Donald Trump, obviously, is not a good choice to pick, but then Hillary is not a trustworthy candidate, like I know there’s still things going on behind the scenes. I’m just not really comfortable with both options. Most likely I think Hillary is just going to win regardless, her polls are so high right now; even though there’s the current investigation on her emails right now. I have more faith in America to not vote for Trump. I’m not saying [my vote] won’t matter, but Hillary is the obvious choice. Can’t say for sure [what will happen if she is elected.] When Obama was elected, people were like, ‘Oh, it’s going to be the end of the world!’ But it’s the total opposite.”
Q: Who are you voting for and why?
A: “I would vote for Hillary Clinton, in my opinion,” said Edgar Morales, junior Spanish language and literature major. “I am able to study because of Differed Action for Childhood Arrivals, and she would honor that if she were elected president, and possibly give more abilities to people who received it. For the Differed Action, it is for people who came here illegally before the age of 15, I believe, and you have to be able to study or work. I’m choosing to study and I can’t vote because I wasn’t born in this country. Mostly for me it’s just the stance on immigration, [Trump’s] stance on immigration, I don’t know how it would happen. Deporting 11 million people within one week or something, which is obviously impossible, and even if you give him more time it’s still extremely hard to do.”
Q: Who are you voting for and why?
A: “Obviously, it’s Trump and Hillary but it’s not just them we can vote for,” said Lupita Rodriguez, junior pre-physical therapy major. But I haven’t really paid much attention to the other two. I personally am learning more towards Hillary Clinton, I think it’s [because of] what Trump has said towards women and Hispanics, and I feel like he’s bringing in racism that was here before but not as much that it is now. I personally haven’t experienced anything, but I know people that have. Not just Hispanic, but other races too, that he’s talked about in his speeches that he’s done. Definitely going to look more into it before I go in and vote because I know it’s not just them two that I can vote for.”
Q: Who are you voting for and why?
A: “I’m voting for Hillary Clinton,” said freshman business major Anna Mangini. “I just really don’t like Donald Trump, I think he’s a bad person. Just the comments he says and stuff, I just don’t know, I just see the comments he makes on Twitter and interviews and in debates and that just doesn’t seem like a presidential candidate. I just think [Clinton] is a better politician and a more level-headed person for dealing with foreign affairs and stuff like that.”
