“I’m hoping that somebody that knows how to run a business, that knows when a business is doing well, is doing bad, how to correct things and how to go down the right path and realize if we went down the right path, stop.”
(Keith DiBello, 51, of Camillus, sergeant, Syracuse University Department of Public Safety, Republican)
“The Supreme Court decided that corporations are people too, so therefore they can spend a ton of money on political ads. They shouldn’t have an equal voice because they’re corporations. So they have lots of money but they have an equal voice. They can just shout way louder than the individual person. That’s like, that’s such a sick interpretation.”
(Trish Taylor, 53, of Syracuse, unemployed teacher, Democrat)
“I want everyone to have healthcare. I want everyone to be insured. I want that to happen and I think the Republicans want to eviscerate any kind of Obamacare or anything that’s going on.”
(Wendy Valentine, 51, of Syracuse, homemaker, Democrat)
“I’m just looking for those, you know, jobs that can afford to pay 
back school loans as well. I mean obviously the scale is kind of lopsided. I guess that’s it, you know – making people want to go to work and not just regretting it and having to take minimum wage jobs, that have degrees and experience. And they have to basically lower their standards just to succeed in life, not even have a career.”
(Jasper MaKai, 27, of Syracuse, sales associate, The Sound Garden, no party affiliation)
“I feel like people brand these forward-thinking ideas as progressive and too radical but it’s gotta happen, I mean to move forward.”
(Emily Rigby, 21, of Cooperstown, student, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, no party affiliation)
(Katya Rivera is a senior majoring in broadcast journalism and political science.)
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