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Voices at Baylor: ‘Let the market work’
From staff writer Tommy Witherspoon
Greg McNew, a 21-year-old computer science junior from Granbury, Texas, said he voted for Barack Obama.
“I trust him most on foreign policy issues and I think his health care plan is the most reasonable.”
McNew said he thinks Obama is the most likely candidate to bring transparency to government. To him the most important issues are foreign policy (including handling of the war in Iraq), the environment and personal liberties.
He said if he could, he would tell whoever becomes president: “I think it is more important to protect our civil liberties than restrict them in the name of fighting terrorists.”
Jamaal Myles, 20, a information management systems major from Los Angeles said today was his first time to vote, and he chose Obama.
Myles said he likes the Democratic candidate’s plans on education and health care, and his anti-war policy. He also likes him because he’s not a “band wagoner,” when it comes to his stance on issues.
He said he likes Obama’s consistency in his policies.
For Myles, the most important issues this election are the economy, health care and taxes.
He urged whoever becomes president to remain faithful to the policies campaigned on.
Recent Baylor Law School graduate Rebecca Griffin, 23, of Phoenix, said she voted for Jonathan Sibley because she was in law shcool with him for a while.
Griffin, a Republican, said she voted for Ron Paul because she did not like McCain’s policies from when she was in Arizona.
Her top issues: immigration, defense and the economy. If she could talk to the president, she would say, “Let the market work. The free market will work itself out if you just leave it alone.”
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