Hello World!

As most of you know the Presidential election is happening right now and the New York primary was yesterday Tuesday, April 19. This year the election was so interesting that the 5th grade decided to go around the neighborhood asking people who had voted which candidate they had chosen to vote for. We had a bunch of sheets on a clipboard and a pencil. Then, we were split into groups. My group stationed ourselves a few feet away from a church’s basement where people were voting.

This is the church that we exit polled at.

Some of the questions on the sheet consisted of:

Which candidate did you vote for?

What is your gender?

How old are you?

What was the most important issue for you when choosing a presidential candidate?

How happy are you with the choices for President in your party this year?

We stood at the entrance to the church basement for and hour and 15 minutes and when people came out of the church, we asked them those six questions. Most of the people were nice and were glad to tell us about their choice, but there were a few who kept it very secretive. I mean, I do understand why some people would do that, but it wasn’t very helpful when they only gave us have the information. In the end, Hillary Clinton got a lot of votes from women and Bernie Sanders got a lot of votes from people under the age of 25-30. John Kasich was the most popular in the most popular in Greenwich Village but Donald Trump And Ted Cruz still got a few votes each. Overall, I think that the polling was fun and helped me learn a lot about how primaries work and how well the candidates were doing.