High school drama sucked, nobody wants to go through all of that again. Kevin kissed Megan at the dance when he was supposed to be with Sandra, Jack is wearing the same coat as Jill, yada yada yada. You know what I mean. Politics is a bit like high school drama, except the spitballs are missiles, and the kisses usually involve 19 year old interns or Brazilian Mistresses.

Since our next presidential election is right around the corner, I wanted to take some political happenings and ask how students would deal with them.

Invasion of Privacy

The scandal in question is about Hillary Clinton, as former secretary of state, she was in charge of some big stuff. She was using her private email to do official government business. Which may not seem like a big deal, but it led to her entire email server being released to the public. All of it, thousands and thousands of emails.

So I asked some students, if your emails were released to the public, what wouldn’t you want your mom to see?

Trey Boursaw: “I have some spam?”

Emily Annis: “How many cat videos I look up, it’s sad.”

Lauren Hansen: “Videos of me singing Disney Music. On video.”

Lucein Lekea: “What I would not want my mom to see? Like Honestly? It’s not like its unknown, but like the porn though. XNXX.com, I’m being real. You know me man.”

Paul Pollard: “hmmm… emails from my wife, to myself.”

Miriam Zaragoza: “I only ever do school work, so I honestly wouldn’t care. I have a Facebook? But my mom knows that.”

Who’s Voting for Who?

Since we were already talking about politics, I asked everybody if they knew who they thought they might vote for in the upcoming presidential election.

For the Republican candidates according RealClearPolitics.com the polling averages between CBS, USAT, Fox and NBC the front runner is Donald Trump at 23.7% of total votes, followed by Ben Carson at 18.4%, Marco Rubio at 9.9% and Carly Fiorina at 8.9%.

For the Democratic candidates according to RealClearPolitics.com the standings before last nights debate are as follows; the front runner is Hillary Clinton at a whopping 43.3%, followed by Bernie Sanders at 25.1%, Joe Biden at 17.4% and the next closest candidate is Jim Webb at 0.9%.

Boursaw: “Bernie. Everything I’ve read about him is clear. I like his views and I like what he wants to do for students, I’m a student.”

Annis: “Bernie Sanders all the way. I think he is a really good leader and has a lot of good stuff to say. And I support all of the things that he supports.

Hansen: “Yeah, kind of. Definitely NOT Donald Trump. I’m just going to say that. I’m more of a libertarian.”

Lekea: “I’m not an American citizen, so I don’t vote. But if I could, I would vote for nobody, for me it’s like picking which cage you want to live in.”

Pollard: “If the candidacy was right now, and it was the election between Democrats and Republicans… I would vote for Trump, he’s got the guts to speak his mind. He’s not owned by anybody.”

(I spoke with another Trump supporter, who declined to have his statement published.)

Zaragoza: “Bernie Sanders. Because he understands how important grassroots movements are, he understands them and he understands the struggle. And he seems to be the most humble and one of the most genuine candidates.”

KFM This game is known by a lot of names, but for the sake of this paper we will call it Kill, Hump, Marry. Out of the front runners of both parties of the Democratic and Republican parties, I asked students to pick one to kill, pick one to “hump”, and which one to marry.

Miriam: “I don’t want anything to do with any of them. I would friend-zone Bernie.”

Lucien: “Man, this a f***ed up game. I don’t believe in marriage, but I would F Hillary Clinton, and I don’t believe in killing, but I guess Trump?”

Lauren: “I’d kill Donald Trump. Who has the most money? Maybe I would marry Donald Trump and then kill him and inherit all of his money. Then hire the best lawyer to defend me so I don’t get in trouble. Maybe spend a night with Marco Rubio..”

Emily: “Kill one, probably Trump. I’d hump Marco Rubio, he has a nice name. I would marry Bernie.”

Trey: “Take out Trump, obviously [F] Hillary, she’s a girl. Marry Obama, he made gay marriage legal, he’s the one to marry!”