Election lessons for undergrads
LMU undergraduates -- including a cluster of political science majors -- will leave the rarefied air of academia for a real-world lesson in politics and the election process today. More than 200 students will collect, distribute and input the Leavy Center's 2008 Exit Poll Survey today.
The students will speak to 1,700 voters leaving polling locations in the City of Los Angeles (at 50 precincts) to determine how they cast their ballots. Voters from various ethnic backgrounds will be included using the center's "racially stratified homogeneous precint sampling method" (mouthful of jargon, anyone?).
In the Daily Breeze coverage area, students will speak to voters at the California Army National Guard center in San Pedro.