Today, President Barack Obama and Republican nominee and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney will see the effects of months of campaigning as voters cast their ballots.
For many students, trying to decide between the two candidates has not been easy. Public relations senior Allison Monroe participated in early voting and voted for Obama and Vice President Joe Biden because she felt uninformed about Romney’s plans to reduce the national deficit, cut spending and his view on select citizens, she said.
“Some of the comments he made about portions of the American people just don’t sit well with me,” Monroe said. “I don’t want the leader of my country saying it’s not his responsibility to worry about a specific group of people.”
Still, Monroe is not sure whether her views of Romney echo those held by other voters.
“I’m honestly not sure who’s going to win. It’s like every day since the last debate, President Obama and Mitt Romney switch leads in the polls, so I guess I’ll just have to wait until (this evening) to find out,” Monroe said.
“As far as the debates, I feel like President Obama did a better job overall. He seemed a little off on the first debate, but what many people fail to realize is Mitt Romney had been debating all summer and even earlier in the year to earn the Republican presidential nomination; President Obama hadn’t debated in years, so he probably just needed a chance to get back into the swing of things.”
Not everyone feels that Obama is the choice. Amanda Hughes. a painting and sculpting junior, is voting for Romney.
Of the 538 electoral votes, candidates need 270 to win the election. According to a CNN.com electoral map, Obama leads with 237 presumed electoral votes, while Romney trails with 206 votes. New Hampshire, Ohio, Virginia, Florida, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado and Nevada are currently listed as toss-up states on the map, leaving 95 votes unaccounted for.
Management information systems senior Malik Osei-Frimpong is also supporting the president.
“First off, I believe that Barack Obama will win the election. Although many people suspect that Obama only added to the problems initiated when Bush was president, this is not the case,” Osei-Frimpong said.
“He may not have completed all of the tasks he promised us he would, but how can you expect him (in one term) to reconstruct the economy it took the previous president’s two terms to screw up,” Osei-Frimpong said. “During the various presidential debates, it seemed as though Obama took more initiative to address current problems and how he would fix them, versus Romney spending the majority of his debate time to bash Obama’s credentials. This is why I believe he will remain president.”
Some like Robert Morales, a finance junior, feel that this election is ready to be over.
For information on voting centers in Houston please visit www.harrisvotes.org.
Edit at 11:27 a.m. Tuesday: Quotes were added from Romney supporters.
I think it’s pretty funny that the Daily Cougar writes an article about students discussing the presidential election, but fails to speak with someone who supports Romney. I can guarantee there are students on campus that support Romney. Talk about a completely slanted and biased article. Good job “Daily Cougar’s for Obama”…glad to see you can report the news in a fair and accurate manner while wearing your blue Obama shirt!
I agree with Matt… and since when did newspapers (even the Daily Cougar) get to put their own spin and opinion as if it were fact. Come on, and let’s see some good journalism that shows the facts only for this extremely important presidential race. This article should have been in the opinion section… with a different title! And… I would love to hear people NOT slamming Bush and blaming him for every single problem this US is facing. So, since this article is opinion, here’s mine… Romney deserves to be given a chance at the presidency… after all, in business if you’re not doing what you’re supposed to be doing (a.k.a. doing a terrible job!), then you are fired and you bring someone else in to do the job. Obama has not done what he said he would do, and in reality… none of them can. But he has done nothing good for our country… it’s time to go!
If you looked at the paper version, the Election Day spread they did had almost all Romney supporters quoted.
What paper were you reading because I read the print version and there were only Obama supporters quoted in the stories. It was only in the editorial portion in which Romney supporters were asked who they were voting for. There is a difference between running students’ thoughts as an editorial column and writing a blatantly biased article.
When will people start looking beyond what is fed to them by politicians and an incredibly biased media?
Do yourself a favor today and look up who was responsible for repealing the Glass-Steagal Act, and passing/strengthing the Community Reinvestment Act, and what impact both of those actions had toward the crash of the economy.