Letter from the Editor
Dear Readers:
First off, I’d like to thank all of you who helped make our first political poll such a great success. This is the first time we have undertaken a survey on this scale and we believe this is the first definitive measure of the campus political atmosphere. One sixth of you participated in this endeavor and the results speak for themselves. This is just the first of many polls we plan to conduct between now and the election and we hope the rest will be even better than this one.
I would also like to apologize for the errors we made in this survey. As with any task attempted for the first time, conducting this survey was a learning process for all of us and consequently mistakes were made along the way. Some of these were minor errors and others were more significant oversights. We are, however, confident that the accuracy of the survey was not jeopardized.
In particular, the most glaring error was the lack of a log-in mechanism. Such a mechanism was needed to enter the drawing for the gift card and to ensure that no one took the survey multiple times. However, given the large number of respondents (over 2,000), we do not believe that the poll results were compromised. As for entering your name into the drawing, on our next political poll in two to three weeks we will ask whether you participated in this poll and give you an additional entry in the drawing.
Additionally, we also forgot to list the Medical School as an option in one of the demographic questions, an oversight on our part. Rest assured that this and other errors will be addressed when we formulate our next survey. Thank you to all of you who responded to me directly to bring these problems to our attention.
We hope that you find these poll results as intriguing as we do. To see the complete data compiled in the survey, please visit our Web site, www.studlife.com. Also be sure to check out our new blogs, including our Political Unit blog, where you can stay up to date on the presidential campaign and how it relates to the University community.
Again, thank you to everyone who participated and our apologies for the errors.
-Erin Fults
Editor in Chief
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