On Tuesday we went and did a little exit poll. Some of us went to the street at some voting places. We asked as many people as we could some questions. The questions were: Who did you vote for? How old are you? What is your gender? What was the most important issue for you when choosing a presidential candidate? Are you a Republican or Democrat? How happy are you with the choices for the candidates in you party? 1 being very unhappy and 5 being very happy. Some of us stayed at school and did a school survey. One person in each group exit polling was the data collector. They put all of the data in their group onto one sheet. That would be sent to the data processors. They took all the information and put it into graphs and percentages.

I learned that primaries are actually very important in the voting process. I used to think that the primaries were not very important. After the exit polling I was very surprised that there were only 21 republican voters that we polled. I thought there would be more democrats but I still thought there would be more than 21 republicans. I was also surprised that Kasich won in this neighborhood. The data collectors got percentages for Sanders and Clinton. The came out with Clinton being 67% and Sanders 33%. On Wednesday we looked at the actual percentages from the neighborhood. Clinton was 67% and Sanders was 33%! We got it exact! (Great job data processors!) I did not think that would be the outcome.

I was in the school survey group. We interviewed all the teachers who were available. I was very surprised that only one person in all the people we interviewed was republican. We did not get the results from the school, but Lars, Farin, and me all agree the winner in our school was probably Bernie Sanders. It was a really fun day, and I really liked how accurate our results came out.