From Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon to Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump, Notre Dame students have been voicing their opinions about presidential candidates for nearly a century.
Dating back to at least the early 1930s, undergraduates during most presidential election years have expressed their preferences through campus straw votes, presidential polls, informal surveys and mock elections. Although not scientifically precise, the results provide a snapshot of students’ political views over the years.
Here are the candidates that students favored for the nation’s highest office during those campaign seasons in which campus polls or mock election results were reported (with the winning candidates in the national election shown in bold):
