From UNC-Chapel Hill’s The Daily Tar Heel today:
Howard Machtinger, director of the Carolina Teaching Fellows program, said he is not convinced of the validity of the election.
“There’s still question about whether everyone was allowed to vote,” he said.
Machtinger said that even though Kerry conceded, he believes that there should be further investigation of the election’s results.
From NC State’s Technician:
“The Republican students I have talked to are amazingly uninformed,” Nick Halpern, an English professor, said, “I wish they had learned about the issues before they voted. An educated nation would have voted for Kerry.”
Halpern’s remark is well in keeping with NCSU Political Science Prof. Michael Cobb’s remarks Monday about his class’s poll of NC State students:
According to Cobb’s analysis of survey results, republicans are less knowledgeable about candidates’ positions and tend to have incorrect beliefs in regards to Iraq’s ties to al-Qaeda (none), weapons of mass destructions (none found) and world opinion on the invasion (against it).
“The more respondents were misinformed about Iraq, the more likely they supported Bush,” Cobb said in the report.
Drawing out one instance, Cobb examined response to three questions regarding Iraq. Of respondents who got no questions right, nearly 93 percent believed that the war in Iraq is successful. Those who got one question correct, 74 percent; two questions, 49 percent; and all three questions correct, 29 percent believed that the Iraq war was going well.
“It’s a perfect linear relationship — if you’re ignorant of the reality on the ground, you think it’s been successful. If you’re aware of what’s happened, you think disaster,” he said.
