After months of political campaigns being aired
across the state for the 2012 presidential election, it was now time for viewers to become voters and take their
opinions to the booth. On Tuesday at the ballrooms in the University Center at
the University of Northern Colorado, three young women planned on doing just
that as they waited patiently in line.
Being
their first time voting, all women were eager to use their voice and opinions
as their civic duty.
Amber
Rea, a senior audiology major said that she felt excited voting for the very
first time and chose to vote for is Republican Mitt Romney.
“I
found that Romny’s beliefs and personal experiences align more with mine, more
than they do with Obama,” Rea said. “I am specifically interested in military
affairs because I come from a military family. Romney is pro-military and is
not willing to cut its benefits like Obama is.”
Whereas
Rea says the other factors that play into her decision to vote for Romney are
the economy and unemployment, another voter, Karena Cooper, a senior elementary
education major thinks about her own future.
Since
learning how to become a teacher at UNC, Cooper says that she has also learned
how politics may affect her job. As she moves a step further in the line, she
says that Democrat Barack Obama will be more generous to Cooper and her
profession than Romney.
“As a future teacher, we need a society that gives our
children the proper education they deserve,” said Cooper. “Obama seems like he
is for issues like this as well as jobs. Relatively to education, Obama
supports having a smaller classroom size which allows more teachers to have and
keep their jobs.”
But although Cooper and Rea are voting for opposite candidates,
they both disagree on the passage of Amendment 64.
While Rea voted no because she felt uneducated about the
program to even vote yes, Cooper says that she doesn’t think her voice would be
very valuable in this instance.
“What’s the point of voting for this law when it could be
reversed by the federal government?” Cooper said.
However, Mackenzie Francis, a junior elementary and Obama
voter said that the law should be passed not only because she thinks that tax
revenue from the plant could help schools, but because it allows people to be
individuals.
“People have the right to do what they want with their
lives without other people caring what they do,” Francis said.
Along with her pro-marijuana belief, other liberal views
that she considers while walking only inches in front of the entrance to the
ballrooms include gay marriage and abortion.
But although Francis, Cooper and Rea
all take their different views with them as they enter the ballrooms to cast
their ballot , each of them becomes a new voice to be heard by the American
public.
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