A Live Blog Experiment part 2

Day 2

Wednesday

7:00am - Again the alarm is screeching, but this time I wake up and get ready for work.

11:00am - It's day two of voting and I am once again handing out fliers and stickers to the many passing students. It's interesting to watch them as they walk pass the tables, some happy to chat and others B-lining past like they left their iron on at home.

1:00pm - I've been studying the student body for the last day and a half now, and I'm beginning to notice that the students of FGCU fall into a couple of categories when it comes to voting. Well maybe it's not even so much the whole Student Government election thing, but maybe more the whole "someone is trying to hand me something" thing. As the students walk by, you've got those who are nice enough to take what you give them, whether its a flier or a sticker and say thank you. If they throw it away as they get around the corner thats fine... it's the fact that they acknowledge you in the first place that counts, because every now and then, they will actually ask what it's for... which might end up as a possible vote. Then you have your asshole crowd, the ones that walk by and pretend that they already have one, or that they are like "Yeah, Totally, Your awesome!" or some other form of flattery and then walk away laughing. I mean it's just as easy to not be a dick and say no thanks.... either way it gets the same point across. At least the nicer way won't come back to bite you in the ass later. Then finally, you have the I don't care group... which unfortunately, 90% of the school falls into. These are the ones, who try so hard to walk by without making eye contact, and praying that you won't stop them. You know who they are... the ones who pretend to not hear you say something as they walk a foot in front of you, or they have that fake phone call with some mysterious person, or they put the ipod on so they can drown out your dribble. Almost everyone will wear sunglasses also, so they can hide that scared look in their eye, that you might actually come up to them and attempt to make contact. So however will even go out of their way to make the most random path around where you are standing, so they run a 0% risk of actually running into you.

2:00pm - I finally read a copy of this weeks Eagle News, and the news is not good. Not only did we apparently get killed in the exit poll, but the Student Body President just killed us with a public endorsement for the opposition. This is definitely not a good thing for us, because like little sheep being lead to slaughter, the younger and uneducated students of FGCU, well of any college technically, will now vote for Breakthrough because of it. It's common knowledge that when you are unsure which choice to make, the decision always comes down to well is someone telling me it's good. Like a celebrity endorsement. I'm an advertising major, I've been watching tv commercials for a long time now, as well as buying things for many years now too. I know how well the power of persuasion is, and this is one powerful persuasion. If you don't know anything about the politics of Student Government and you don't know either of the party members or what they stand for, and your sole reason to vote is for that little free pass for parking, why wouldn't you vote for the party that the current president supports? I mean it's practically a given. We are gonna have to work super hard to over come this setback.

5:00pm - The day has come to an end. We decided that we would have to go out and try to convince people that we are the right party to vote for. It's definitely a tough thing to do, considering that out of 10,000 plus students on campus about 8,000 of the those won't vote at all. Most of these are part of the I don't care group, that won't even talk to you or let you talk to them. It was a rough day today, most of us are sunburned from going out to where the people are instead of waiting for them to come to us. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.