“Unemployment. It has improved somewhat since the last election, but it’s still a huge issue. That’s the concern for people that are voting – what’s going to happen to my job.”
(Suhannelis Delarosa, 23, of Syracuse, sales associate at Victoria’s Secret, registered Democrat)
“I think the government has taken a path that it can’t really turn back from at this point in history. I feel like a lot of people are concerned about big government and I think a lot of people aren’t recognizing necessarily the need for it at this point with the amount of population and support citizens need from some organization necessarily.”
(Tara Kehoe, 30, of Syracuse, sales associate at Lenscrafters, registered Democrat)
“I think they should actually have more intellectual conversations on screen so people can understand what each candidate is offering so we can make a better decision on who we want to be the president.”
(Brian Cunningham, 36, sales associate at Sports Authority, registered Democrat)
“At my age, Social Security. I’m still working, I’m still putting into it and what I don’t understand is where all this money went that they were supposed to be putting aside for this particular project and issue. Where did it go? Did we use it and not replace it? Because that’s what it sounds like to me. I’ve been working since I was 13 years old, so tell me where my money is.”
(Linda Williams, 69 of Syracuse, cashier at Auntie Anne’s, registered Democrat)
“My issues in the upcoming election wouldn’t be the general issues—they would be more of my sense of expectations of politics. I don’t think you can expect too much out of politics because politics is interested in its own survival. I think that too many people rely or expect someone to give them something rather then trying to figure out how to get it themselves.”
(Kamil Dixon, 29, of Syracuse, phone booth salesman, unaffiliated with a political party)
(Allison Nachman is a graduate student of broadcast and digital journalism.)
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