The Compass

Issue date: 3/11/08 Section: News

Student's campaign for GOP presidential nominee candidate Mike Huckabee in January.

Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee were crowned favorite Democrat and Republican among Gainesville State College students, faculty and staff during the Gainesville Campus pre-primary primary on Jan 30.
GSC voters casted a total of 436 votes for the Democratic candidates, choosing between Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich. Obama emerged as the winner, claiming 249 votes. Hillary Clinton came in a distant second with 120 votes. On the Republican side, a total of 560 votes were cast among the choices of John McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Rudolf Giuliani and Ron Paul. Huckabee won with 187 votes and John McCain came in a close second with 135 votes.

Edwards took third place among democrats with 59 votes and Kucinich came in last, only raking in eight votes.

Paul claimed third place among republicans with 96 votes, Romney followed behind with 73 votes and Giuliani came in last with 69 votes.
Four students were undecided, someone did a write in for Condoleeza Rice and another wrote in Ted Nugent.

The student pre-primary primary, conducted by the Politically Incorrect Club, more than doubled from the last campus primary 4 years ago. While the 2004 campus primary drew only 425 participants (students, faculty and staff), the 2008 campus primary drew a whopping 1,002 voters.
"The goal of the Politically Incorrect Club's primary is to encourage more interest in the presidential election so that everyone would vote in the real Georgia presidential primary," said Douglas Young. "We are thrilled to have such a gigantic increase in voter turn out."

The GSC campus seems to be in tune with the political sentiment presently in Georgia as a whole. It turns out that GSC's pre-primary primary accurately reflected Georgia's real primary. Both Obama and Huckabee won their parties' primary in Georgia on Feb. 5.

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