A West Chester professor and her class polled students statewide about the election. Here's what they found.

[RandySF]

Nearly 95% of the 1,048 respondents said they will probably or certainly vote or already have voted, up from 89% in 2022, and 86% in 2020. While Pyott was encouraged by the record enthusiasm, she said she thinks students interested in the election were the ones most likely to take the poll, so results could be skewed. “We ran into the same issue that a lot of pollsters are running into, and it’s this concept of propensity,” she said. “The people who are opting in to your survey are the people who are enthusiastic.”

Sixty percent of respondents favored Vice President Kamala Harris, while 33% said they would vote for Trump. In 2020, the split was exactly the same amount of percentage points, with 58% favoring Biden and 31% Trump, Pyott said.

When those who were undecided were pushed to make a choice, that raised Harris’ share to 62%, but Trump stayed at 33%, Pyott said. “He doesn’t pick up any of those undecideds,” she said.

In the class’ 2020 poll, Biden led Trump in all regions of the state, including central Pennsylvania, where he was ahead by a point; this time, Trump leads Harris only in the central region, by 2 points.

For the first time, the survey asked students if they had confidence in the integrity of the election outcome; 80% overall said they were somewhat or very confident. But Pyott said she is concerned that 36% of students who identified as registered Republican said they were not too confident and another 8% not confident at all. “That Republican message of not trusting the integrity of our elections is definitely getting through to the younger demographic in Pennsylvania,” she said.



https://www.inquirer.com/education/west-chester-university-student-election-poll-20241025.html

[OnDoutside]

1. Interesting, there was another poll mentioned here

during the week which has similar undecided breakdowns....in that it was 60 40 in Kamala's favour too.

[birdographer]

2. Why why why why why

would a student vote for Donny? Have they had an irresistible urge to shoot themselves in the foot lately and this seemed the best way to do it? Have they any idea what he will do to their near futures? Do they think all that matters is that they don't need SS or Medicare?

And how did they get so ignorant and oblivious so early in life? This makes no sense to me. At least the old white people voting for him have had time to get dimwitted and have far less future to worry about.

[Ontheboundry]

3. This is an age group

That we knew she would do well on,.so how does this ease the nerves?

[RandySF]

6. Wasn't meant to.

Its data.

[Jrsygrl96]

4. GOTV

Our daughter graduated from West Chester in 2019. She voted in PA in 2016, but has returned home where she will vote here. She is still getting tons of calls from PA to vote blue. So, the Dems are trying their hardest to get out the vote.

[LiberalArkie]

5. You are talking about college students. Now down here in Arkansas the same age group in small town and rural

indicate that they would never go to college because all those people do drugs. While at the same time snorting up some crack of popping some meth.

I just can not wrap my head around it. My 40 yr old neighbor with 2 years said he would never let his kids go to college as they would end up gettin non drugs like the rest. Another neighbor (21 m) said the same as he was smoking some crack.