The results are in for Pace Decides. The mock elections held by freshman Briana Finelli yielded result not dissimilar from that of the national exit polls for the 2012 presidential election. New York State has gone blue since 1988. Therefore, the results for Finelli’s experiment were overwhelmingly democratic. In fact, democrats held the majority in every category used to asses Pace voters.
One aspect of the experiment was to determine which halls on campus would be red or blue. However, all of the on campus houses had a democratic majority with an average score of 60 percent democratic and 30 percent republican.
While the youth vote at Pace at 76 percent democratic reflected nation statistics of 60 percent, racial statistics were drastically different. Only 39 percent of white voters went democratic according to national exit polls, 52.6 percent of white voters at Pace were democratic.