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Show Students Prefer McCarthy, Kennedy rj x '! i:2 ?; f;W :.,:- v. ; . , ; ? . Over 1000 University students voted Monday in a public office preference pre-ference poll conducted by KSL television beside the Union Huddle Ticket booth. Offices for which University students cast their ballots included those of U.S. President, Utah governor, Utah congressional representatives representa-tives from the first and second districts and Utah U.S. Senator. Candidates for the various offices were listed on the ballot after KSL made a survey among local Democrats and Republicans indicating their preference of candidates to battle the incumbant opposition. J. Paul Smith, KSL's political analyst, explained that "since Democrat Calvin Rampton is currently Utah's governor, polls were taken among Republicans Repub-licans as to who could best defeat him, and since Republican Wallace Bennett is currently U.S. senator, polls were taken among the Democrats' Demo-crats' to see who they thought his toughest competition would be." f Listen, Politician! Mr. Smith continued that "over 1000 is good anyplace. I feel that the involvement University students have expressed proves that they may influence the election more than most people think. It's gotten to the point where if the politicians don't listen to the voter, the voter won't listen to the politician!" When asked why he felt any mock political preference poll conducted at the University of Utah or any university would influence anyone, Mr. Smith replied any student poll gives an indication of the way parents will be voting. "Let's face it, the student has to be influenced to some Bxtent by what his parents think!" In addition, Mr. Smith pointed out, several of those students polled are eligible to vote in the next election. "There will be 2 million new voters in the United States this year alone," said Gale Boden also of KSL, "and whereas in the past politicians have had to rely on citizens over 40 to get them elected, this year the citizens who will be doing the electing will be between 2 and 28!" Mr. Boden continued that in previous elections, young voters haven't been very concerned with going to the polls, "but the war changes all that. Young people are affected by it because it's the most important problem the nation faces this year whether Johnson would like to admit it or not."' McCarthy, Kennedy The two KSL spokesman indicated of those people they interviewed concerning their preference of President, Sen. Eugene McCarthy received re-ceived the most votes, closely followed by Sen. Robert Kennedy. "It all boils down to the war," said Mr. Boden, Calvin Rampton led in the gubernatorial race and "interestingly," Phil Hansen, current Utah at-1 at-1 torney general, was the average University student's preference for U.S. Senator. KSL announced that ballots would be counted this weekend and results would be placed by means of an advertisement in the Chronicle sometime next week. KSL TV's political specialist J. Paul Smith at the University for political preference poll interviews senior Jeff Haskin. Eugene 3IcCarthy and Robert Kennedy led in popularity for President. |