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November 6, 2012

Student survey reveals voting patterns

Filed under: Students, History, Community, Academics, Research — Peter @ 5:22 pm

From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)

A recent Knox College News Team poll showed 59 percent of 213 registered voters [in Galesburg] interviewed said they would choose Obama [for President]… The Knox College journalism class published their findings of Obama’s 57-27 lead over Romney in The Register-Mail on Oct. 28… Since 1992, the Democrat to receive the lowest percentage of the overall Galesburg vote was President Bill Clinton, with 53 percent of the working-class city’s vote when he unseated incumbent President George Bush in 1992… Read more…