Exit Polling

 

One thing that I learned in Exit Polling was that most people were really nice and really wanted to help out. Many people answered my questions. I asked everyone five questions. The first question that I asked was, what was your presidential candidate that you voted for in this primary? The second question was what was your age? The third question was, what is you race or ethnicity? The fourth question was if you are a Republican or Democrat? The final question was if you were happy with your choice on a scale from one to five ; one meant you were not very happy and five meant that you were very happy. Usually they answered all of the questions, but sometimes they did not feel comfortable telling me about what their race was and how old they were. Which was not that surprising.

Something that I was surprised about was that there were not a lot of Republicans as most people were Democrats. Most of the Republicans voted for Kasich. The final score was Kasich 16, Trump 4 and Ted Cruz 0. For the Democrats, Clinton won 208 and Bernie won 105.  I was also surprised that most people who are Republicans hated their choices because most of them picked ones and twos. The Democrats were mostly happy with their choices because they picked mostly fours and fives. My experience was really fun, but my job as the data collector was really stressful. The papers kept on coming and coming and I had to copy all the data down.