A majority of Princeton students plan to vote in the 2024 Presidential Election or have voted for Kamala Harris, according to a poll conducted by The Daily Princetonian. While 73.5 percent of those who participated in the survey stated that they would vote for Harris, the rate of those who voted for Donald Trump was 15.9 percent. Among college students across the country Harvard Institute of Politics (IOP) Youth Survey64 percent said they would vote for Harris and 30 percent said they would vote for Trump.

‘The Prince’ sent a survey to 10 percent of undergraduate students between October 23 and 26 and received 113 responses, or a 19.7 percent response rate. The email asked only students over the age of 18 and US citizens to respond to the survey. You can access all the results of the survey Here. Survey questions were adapted with permission from the Harvard IOP survey so that Princeton results could be compared to national youth and college student data.

While 42.2 percent of Harris supporters are “Strong Democrats,” only 22.2 percent of Trump supporters are “Strong Republicans.” The Harvard IOP found that 51 percent of Democrats and 52 percent of Republicans are strongly affiliated with their respective party. The IOP poll also found three percent of each party’s “Strong” or “Not so strong” supporters planning to vote for the other party’s candidate; this trend was not seen in the ‘Prince’ survey, which was supported only by ‘weakly’ affiliated respondents. candidate of the opposing party.

More than 88 percent of students are unsure or pessimistic about the country’s future; 57 percent of respondents say the country is on the wrong track, while 31.5 percent say they are unsure about the country’s future. The Harvard IOP poll found that 21 percent of Democrats and four percent of Republicans believe the country is heading in the right direction. In the ‘Prince’ poll, a significantly lower percentage of Democrats believed the country was heading in the right direction, at six percent, while none of the Republican respondents believed the country was heading in the right direction.

A higher percentage of survey respondents said they had more confidence in Kamala Harris on all important issues compared to the results of the Harvard IOP poll. “National security and defense” has the lowest margins in both; This suggests that Trump and Harris have close to equal numbers of people who trust his handling of this issue. In the Harvard IOP poll, immigration figures prominently among Trump voters, despite a 29 percent lead in favor of Harris in the ‘Prince’ poll. Respondents to the Harvard IOP poll trusted Trump more than Harris on the following issues: immigration, the economy, national security and defense, and the Israel-Hamas War.

Similar to the Harvard IOP survey, Project 2025’s positive rate is very low; 72.6 percent of Princeton students view this as “Very negative.” Among college students surveyed by the Harvard IOP, 50 percent saw it that way.

Climate change is the issue that the highest percentage of Harris voters say is most important; 80.7 percent of Harris voters choose this among their most valuable issues. National security and defense are considered an important issue by only 18.1 percent of Harris voters; That rate is the lowest among all issues, compared to 38.9 percent of Trump voters. The economy is the issue that the highest percentage of Trump voters (94.4 percent) chose as one of the issues they value most.

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In the Harvard IOP poll, 46 and 48 percent of Democratic and Republican voters, respectively, were very enthusiastic about their vote; This rate is higher than the enthusiasm for the candidates in the ‘Prince’ poll. Harris voters are more enthusiastic about their candidate than Trump voters — 69.9 percent versus 55.6 percent, in line with 79 percent of Republicans being enthusiastic about the vote compared to 87 percent of Democrats in the Harvard IOP.

In the ‘Prince’ poll, there were three states where ten or more respondents were registered to vote: New Jersey, New York and California. Majorities in each of these states said that if the election were held today between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, they would vote for Harris. Twenty-one participants are registered to vote in New Jersey, and 18 will vote for Harris.

For each party affiliation, more than 30 percent of party members say neither candidate is honest, while 53.2 percent of Independent/Unaffiliated respondents say neither candidate is honest. Every respondent strongly affiliated with the Republican Party said Donald Trump was the more patriotic candidate, and nearly 60 percent of Independent/Unaffiliated respondents said the same. Almost all party members believe that their candidate is the most competent candidate.

Vote100 and other campus organizations have been helping students register to vote and receive absentee ballots since their first event on Sept. 17. Vote100 also organizes Lyft The polls will be held on November 5, and the group will march to nearby polling places.

Andrew Bosworth is ‘The Prince’s’ chief Data editor and staff Sports writer.

Vincent Etherton is the staff Data writer for ‘The Prince’.

Alexa Wingate is ‘Prince’s assistant Data editor.

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