Andrew Roller, 20, is an undecided voter from Coarsegold, Calif. While he said he supported Obama from early in the primaries, he was disappointed by the change in Obama’s position on alternative energy, a crucial issue for Roller.

Growing up, Roller was influenced by his hometown, which he described as predominately Republican. “I’ve been hearing stuff all my life about the great republicans … and GOP love,” he said. Moving here, however, resulted in a political shift to the left and he now describes himself as a moderate liberal.

“I’m socially very liberal,” Roller said. “I don’t prejudice, or hold people to stereotypes.”

After attending California State University, Northridge, for a year as a film major, Roller began at City College in fall of 2007. He is now a law and society major, and credits some of his ideology to a couple of classes he has taken here, one of them “Introduction to American Politics” taught by Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar.

Roller described the political atmosphere here as a role reversal from his childhood, adding, “being here allowed me to come to conclusions I might not have agreed with.”

He also attributes much of his political influence to his father, Steven, who taught him that, “there is no movement without effort, and no effort without energy.”

Roller is adamant about nuclear energy, which technology has made much safer, and is extremely cheap. Although he said McCain has failed on other issues, including abortion, stem cell research, and immigration policy, McCain supports new nuclear energy.

Despite Roller’s support for alternative energy, he said clean energy is not his main focus. His focus is on energy independence, because as the price of production declines, prices go down on everything.

Regardless of who becomes president, Roller also wants to see a shift in the way the war in Iraq is fought. He thinks the war could be fought in a more effective manner, and wants to see both troop rates and death rates go down. “I don’t want to have to kill people to get oil,” he said. “I’m getting tired of that idea.”