Do Personal Assets Affect Student Voting? by Nicole Pedoto

According to MSNBC Republican presidential candidate John McCain has called fellow Americans “A nation of whiners” when discussing the current housing crisis. During an interview with Politico back in August McCain could not even recall how many houses his wife and himself own. It was later released that the McCain’s own a total of seven homes across America.

Website, Prosebeforehos has recorded Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is worth 25 times more than the average American household. Even with this being true Obama still has the lowest assets of all candidates.

Six Quinnipiac students were informed about the total assets of both McCain and Obama. The students were then asked if the knowledge of these assets and would affect their vote come election time. Four out of the six said no.

Junior, Samantha Bastoni said “Considering the economic situation that our country is presently in McCain should not be calling Americans a nation of whiners. The number of houses he has will not affect my voting. However, his view of American citizens will.”

Students felt stronger about McCain’s view of the public rather than his personal assets. According to the students Obama’s possession of significantly less assets would not affect their vote either.

Tristan Blank, junior at the university, said “It doesn’t matter whether Obama has less or more assets than McCain, what matters is how they plan on bettering our economy.”

Not all students felt this way. Junior Laura Murphy said her vote would be affected by the assets of the candidates. “Not knowing how many houses you have is ridiculous. Even though being wealthy and being able to manage money well shouldn’t affect my views of the candidates, it does. How do you expect to run a country if you can’t even keep track of your houses?”