Students discuss the relationship between their major and political ideology
During an election, college students' votes are vital because they are the next generation to lead the country. Traditionally, college students lean more on the liberal side of the political ideology spectrum. However, is there a certain way that different majors vote? Do business majors vote differently than arts and humanities majors?
Sophomore business major David Caplon said that he is a Republican because he agrees with a "larger percent of their stances."
"I think that business majors tend to vote Republican because they want less government interference," Caplon said. Caplon said that taxes and affirmative action programs were the most important issues to him in this year's election.
Junior supply chain and operations management double major Todd Glazer said he doesn't think that being a business major " has much correlation with voting a certain way."
"Unlike a science major, such as a bio major that might rely on grants to fund their future research and create more jobs in their field, business majors don't need to vote for a certain politician specifically because he or she favors business in any way [sic]," Glazer said. "Besides some changes in regulations and taxes, the government doesn't have much power to take away accounting or marketing jobs, for example, because there will always be a need for those."
Glazer said that since his family members are Democrats, he registered as a Democrat as well.
"As I learned a little more, I found myself agreeing with more of Obama's views than Romney and the other Republican candidates along the way," Glazer said.
Glazer said that in the weeks before the election, he took a political quiz and the results said that he shared the most opinions with Green Party candidate Jill Stein. However, he said he voted for Obama because he figured that Stein didn't have much of a chance of winning.
While Caplon said he believes business majors vote Republican, sophomore Italian and linguistic major Liz Goslin said she doesn't believe the students in the
"ARHU itself contains so many different majors, disciplines, and interests," Goslin said. "It seems to me that we come from a large variety of backgrounds, so I wouldn't say we are that united in terms of who we voted for."
Goslin also said that Question 6 on the
Sophomore public relations and Italian major Courtney Hoff said that she believes that ARHU majors tend to lean more liberal. Hoff said that she is a Democrat because her mom is as well and have adopted her beliefs over the years.
"I'm not a democrat because of my mom, but we share similar values because of the way I was raised," Hoff said.
Hoff said that taking sociology has taught her about social issues. She also believes that other majors do vote a certain way.
"I feel that people with economic or business backgrounds might vote more conservatively, because they are more informed about economic issues," Hoff said.
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