College students for BushCollege students like Bush more than do the general public: College students are more likely to register as Republicans and support President Bush than the general public, according to a survey released yesterday by Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP).Also, Bush beats the always popular "Democrat" 39-34 (9% for a third party, 18% don't know), and favored the Iraq war 58-37. The full results are here (PDF file). Count me as someone who is NOT surprised by these results. As T.Bevan points out, compared to the general public, college students are much more likely to view the war in Iraq and terrorism as the most important issue. Given that 9-11 happened around the time when they first became politically aware, it probably had a greater effect on their thinking than those who are older. If you combine this with the fact that young people ALWAYS favor military action more than those who are older (see this on support for the Vietnam War, for example), it makes sense that young people would be more likely to support the Iraq war and therefore support Bush. UPDATE: The comments on Kevin Drum's post on this is really amusing. Through the first 20 or so comments I learned that college students are suddenly too polite to say they don't like Bush, that they're really stupid, and that it results from a conservative media and GOP propoganda. Others wonder about the accuracy of the poll, since the college students they know all seem to hate Bush. To those people, here's a partial explanation: guys will lie through their teeth in front of women. If some girl a guy likes says she doesn't like Bush, why would he say otherwise? |
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