With the election just days away, candidates across the country are scrambling to convince blocs of voters to cast ballots in their favor. One of the most sought-after voting blocs: college students, many of whom will be voting in a Presidential election for the first time.
An online search of “what college voters think” returns a deluge of articles asking the population who they’re voting for, why and what issues matter to them. Valuable questions towards the results of the Presidential election, but limited to that certain time constraint. The Journal, instead, took a slightly different direction when taking the pulse of college voters: what do they think about modern-day democracy?
We interviewed seven college students, from Wichita, Manhattan and Stillwater, Oklahoma, about whether they feel like their vote matters, what exciting civic engagement looks like and played a short round of word association: “When you hear ‘democracy,’ what is the first word you think of?”…