"I know some people who worked on campaigns around here, and they're interested," Sacher said, "but not many others."
Cory Waldinger '01, who spent the summer working for Democratic Congressional candidate Christopher F.O. Gabrieli '81 and did vote yesterday, offered an explanation for the indifference on campus.
"Most people don't think what people do in Congress affects them," Waldinger said.
She and other young volunteers spent much of yesterday posted outside polling stations in hopes of encouraging voters to back their candidates.
But the paucity of ballot casters proved discouraging.
Wade Boykin, a 26-year-old stumping for Democratic State Rep. candidate Dennis A. Benzan on the corner of Quincy and Cambridge Streets, said traffic had been "a little slow."
"It's frustrating," admitted another Gabrieli volunteer, Haley H. Scein of Tufts.
In fact, by the middle of the day, a line of abandoned placards by the Gund polling station attested to general disappointment.
Nearby, two supporters of State Rep. Alvin E. Thompson, a Democrat running for re-election, chuckled over the symbolism suggested by the deserted signs.