The United States will be making the decision on who will be the next president today.
Whether people vote for Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, a different candidate or don’t vote at all, today’s results will dictate who gets to be the POTUS for the next four, or potentially eight, years.
Students at El Camino have given mixed reactions about who to vote for, but Jermaine Morris, 19, computer science major, wants Hillary Clinton to win.
“I’m voting for Hillary because she’ll do a better job than Trump and because I don’t want to be deported,” Morris said. “Neither candidate is good but she’s the lesser of two evils.”
In the most recent issue of “The Union,” 44.4 percent of students (244 of 550) said they would rather vote for Clinton.
Do you still feel the “Bern”?
Robert Hayes, 20, music major, doesn’t care for Clinton.
“I’m not voting because I’m not feeling any of the candidates, I would have voted if Bernie Sanders was still in the race,” Hayes said.
Clinton surpassed Sanders gaining 2,838 delegate votes, as opposed to Sanders’ 1,843 votes. On July 28, Clinton accepted the Democratic nomination for the 2016 Presidential Elections.
Nathan Nguyen, 20, biology major, aligns with the 37.3 percent of polled EC students who are opting out of voting.
“I won’t be voting, I feel like the two candidates are equally as bad,” Nguyen said. “California is a democratic state, so it’ll go to Hillary.”
While Nguyen won’t be voting because of his distaste for the candidates, Brandon Rickett, 20, toxicology major, doesn’t believe his vote is important.
“(There is) no reason to vote because we are doomed either way,” Rickett said. “We either have a candidate (who) thinks demeaning women is fine, or a candidate who lies just for votes … as far as I’m concerned, my one (vote) won’t swing the election.”
On the propositions:
On a more specific note, Parker Nowicki, 18, computer science major, wants Proposition 64, which would legalize marijuana in California, to pass.
“I just think that it will help the economy and … make money flow better than just having to fight a drug war,” Nowicki said.
Proposition 64 seems to be the one proposition that’s getting the most attention on campus.
“I’m not fully aware of all the props, only the legalization of marijuana, prop 64,” Hayes said.
To some students it may be a big deal, but not to Morris.
“Honestly it doesn’t matter to me,” Morris said. “I don’t smoke.”
