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US Primaries
By Ana Julia Jatar on Apr 28, 2008 | In Politics, International, Opinion | Etiquetas: barack obama, facebook, harvard university, hillary clinton, john mccain, politics., us primaries
A new national poll by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics (IOP), located at Harvard Kennedy School, finds 18-24 year-olds who plan to vote for the Democratic candidate in November strongly prefer U.S. Senator Barack Obama over U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (70% to 30%) to be the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. The poll also finds a majority of likely young voters favor Obama (53%) in a hypothetical head-to-head contest against U.S. Senator John McCain (32%) but give Clinton a much smaller lead (44% to 39%) when matched up against the Arizona Senator.
Interesting research tool: Facebook rising as political organizing tool. Spring 2006 IOP polling showed 76 percent of college students had Facebook accounts, and 14 percent had used it to promote a political candidate, event or idea. Today, 86 percent of college students have access to Facebook and 37 percent have used it to promote a candidate or issue.
