Decision 2016: Students Report from the Campaign Trail

Last week, more than a dozen North­eastern stu­dents headed north to pre­view the New Hamp­shire pri­mary. In part two of our ongoing cov­erage, the stu­dents, a mix of jour­nalism majors and polit­ical junkies, attended town hall meet­ings, inter­viewed voters, and explored some of the lesser-​​covered elec­tion topics, including Bernie Sanders’ age and the oft-​​neglected Asian-​​American voter. Here, we share some of their reports from the field.

Dozens of stu­dents in jour­nalism pro­fessor Jonathan Kaufman’s “Cov­ering Cam­paign 2016” class blan­keted New Hamp­shire last weekend, seeing most of the frontrunners.

They attended a Bernie Sanders rally in Ridge on Sat­urday morning and then attended a Hillary Clinton town hall in Hen­niker, many of them standing out­side in the cold to listen on loud­speakers when the hall reached capacity. On Sunday morning, students headed two hours north to Ply­mouth to hear Donald Trump and inter­view voters at his rally, then ended the day crammed into an indoor sports arena in Man­chester to hear Marco Rubio. “I am not sure who is going to win,” said one exhausted stu­dent as the group headed back to campus. “But I think there is a good chance I just saw the next pres­i­dent of the United States.”

Here is a selec­tion of the stu­dent jour­nal­ists’ work from the field, cov­ering every­thing from Sanders’ age to the oft-​​neglected Asian Amer­ican voter. And if you missed it, here’s part one of the stu­dents’ cov­erage, which included reports from a John Kasich rally in late Jan­uary, where they met and inter­viewed the Repub­lican candidate.

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