Hartford, CT - It may be one of the biggest elections this year in CT, but the senatorial race between Linda McMahon and Chris Murphy doesn’t appear to be making large strides within the college/university crowd. As part of the coverage for the 2012 Connecticut Senatorial Race, the CPTV Media Lab Interns went out to the University of Hartford to experience first hand the views of students during the 2012 election year. Most students who were interviewed didn’t have explicit knowledge of the Candidates though there were a few students who rose above the rest with their knowledge.
The results of the interviews appear to cast the students as a mixed bag of voters. Some plan on voting and others aren’t even aware of when voting begins. Some students were from within CT so their knowledge was generally greater and others came from as far as Illinois with virtually no concrete awareness of the senatorial election or even who is currently running. Many of the interviewees thought of the presidential election when we mentioned the senatorial race. Unfortunately, it seems like they need to pay a little more attention to their political surroundings.
