{"id":5020,"date":"2016-12-31T20:47:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T01:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2017-03-30T10:53:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T14:53:37","slug":"ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: This news short<\/span><\/em> about the November 4 elections is being published now because of an editing delay.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Carmen Rios-Nu\u00f1ez<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to cast a ballot for peace,\u201d said David Pantoja, 34, a journalism and sociology major from Astoria, Queens, who registered as a Democrat to vote for Bernie Sanders, but who would normally register as Independent or Green. \u201cI feel like all the other candidates were very pro-war and pro-military industrial complex and I just didn\u2019t want to support that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pantoja, who was wearing a brown sweater, black slacks, and gray sneakers during the interview that took place in a North Building media classroom, said he opted for the Green Party in the general election and voted for Jill Stein, the Green Party’s 2016 nominee for President.<\/a> Stein\u2019s platform included enacting an emergency Green New Deal to turn the tide on climate change, protecting public lands, water supplies, biological diversity, parks, and pollinators; and investing in clean air, water, food and soil for everyone, according to the third party candidate\u2019s website<\/a>. The Green Party<\/a> was founded on a platform of peace, ecology, social justice, and democracy.<\/p>\n

Omer Beydili, 20, a junior in his second semester, majoring in media studies and minoring in political science, and who is not a U.S. citizen, said that if he had had the option, he, too, would have voted for Stein. \u201cI don\u2019t really trust Hillary Clinton, but I would not vote for Trump for sure,\u201d said Beydili, adding that he believed Trump is racist. \u201cI am a Muslim. I think he is going to discriminate against us in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

And though Beydili, who was wearing blue jeans, a black T-shirt that read \u201cHe Istanbul\u201d across the front, and navy blue sneakers when he was interviewed in a North Building media classroom, said he watched the presidential election until Trump won the Pennsylvania electoral vote. He went to bed hopeful that Clinton would win. Still, he said he wasn\u2019t surprised at the election results.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was expecting it,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat I\u2019m seeing right now in Europe is a basic global trend and that global trend is nationalism. We see that far right wing parties are actually coming to power. It\u2019s the end of the progressive era and it\u2019s the start of the conservative global trend.\u201d Though both students expressed concern about Trump\u2019s presidency, they remain hopeful.<\/p>\n

Pantoja, who is a Mexican American, and whose mother was an illegal immigrant, said that although he was not happy with Trump\u2019s policies, there is a part of him that is happy Trump won. \u201cI think I was happy to see that people could actually make a difference in the election, so it kind of gave me hope for democracy,\u201d Pantoja said. \u201cIt\u2019s putting a negative face on the government instead of giving us this image of \u2018everything\u2019s okay.\u2019 I feel like it\u2019s going to bring more opportunities for people to be angry and realize what the government has been doing all along, which is using violence to protect the interest of a few, and I think that\u2019s a positive even though it\u2019s a negative.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Beydili, who said that he didn’t blame the media for Trump’s upset, said that Trump was a \u201cmedia maniac\u201d who used the media intelligently throughout the course of the election by saying what he knew many Americans wanted to hear.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the election, in his first speech, he actually said many great things about Hillary Clinton, but before the election we did not see it because the people did not want that,\u201d Beydili said. \u201cI think he\u2019s going to change, he\u2019s not going to be the same Donald Trump that we saw during the election and we should give him a chance. For the sake of America\u2019s good, people should relax a little bit, give him a chance and see how he\u2019s going to be as President.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Carmen Rios-Nu\u00f1ez can be reached at Carmen.Rios66@myhunter.cuny.edu<\/em><\/p>\n

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