Word on Campus: How did Longwood react to the election results?
A: Rotunda polls, social media, #RemainStrong says…
The Rotunda sent a campus-wide poll via email to students, faculty and staff prior to the election on Tuesday, and kept it open until Thursday morning. Ultimately, the poll received 1,205 responses. Here’s the percentage breakdown:
Trump: 50.2 percent
Clinton: 35.9 percent
Gary Johnson: 7.1 percent
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Evan McMullin: 3 percent
Jill Stein: 1.9 percent
Write-ins: 2 percent
So, on Longwood University’s campus, President-Elect Donald Trump defeated Secretary Hillary Clinton hands-down.
However, it wasn’t the celebrating Trump-ers who expressed their feelings following the results released in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. On Thursday afternoon, Longwood students — led by the Black Student Association, College Democrats, P.R.I.D.E. and the Student Diversity and Inclusion Council — organized a peace rally and carried signs of love in response to the turmoil that erupted across the nation as protests and riots popped up in major cities.
I covered the event live and here’s some of what occurred. Full coverage is in this Rotunda article.
