“My boyfriend is too lazy to register to vote, so I went to the student center and got applications and started to hand them out to my friends and filled it out for them . . . This is our generation. This is our time to determine what happens to us and people who don’t take a part in government are stupid . . . I like the vice president for McCain, but I’m probably going to vote for Barack Obama because I’m Democrat.”
(Megan Long of Cicero, 18, freshman at Onondaga Community College, registered Democrat.)
“It’s still kind of a tossup. I really haven’t looked at the vice president or who Obama and McCain picked. I’m going to take a look at them a little bit more, then probably make a decision . . . Well, Iraq. I want out troops out of there. But then, I also like — I really don’t know what I like. I haven’t taken that much thought into it.
(Jamie Hornung of Weston, Conn., 19, undecided freshman in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, registered independent.)
“I just really don’t follow it that much . . . Maybe if I felt like I could relate to a candidate, but so far that has not been the case.”
(Annie Dicosimo of Syracuse, 20, English major at LeMoyne college, unregistered.)
“I’m an issue-based voter. I’m a registered independent. As for now, the Number One issue before the economy got so bad was sort of our role in foreign affairs, making sure our next president doesn’t go into other countries with guns saying ‘Democratize, or die.’ . . . I plan on voting for Barack Obama . . . I think that for the issues that are the most important to me, he’s one who’s going to make that better.”
(Cari Roberts of Livingston, NJ, 21, senior public relations and marketing major at Syracuse University, registered independent.)
“The political parties — they’re just corrupt. They have their own interests in mind, like they work for each other more than they work for the American people. That’s why, this election, I won’t vote for McCain. I won’t vote for Obama. I’m voting independent.”
(Matt Barbagallo of North Syracuse, 19, freshman at Onondaga Community College, registered independent)
For Democracywise, I’m Andy McCullough.
(Andy McCullough is a senior majoring in newspaper journalism.)
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