Obama Wins Scholastic News Election Poll Almost 250,000 (a quarter of a million) kids voted by paper ballot or online It's official. At least for the kids! The Scholastic Presidential Election Poll results are in: Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama won with 57 percent of the vote, to 39 percent for Republican nominee Senator John McCain. The poll was open to kids from grades 1 to 12 in Scholastic News and Junior Scholastic magazines. Almost 250,000 (a quarter of a million) kids voted by paper ballot or online at www.scholastic.com/news. The poll closed on October 10. Since 1940, the results of the student vote have mirrored the outcome of the general election all but twice: In 1948, kids voted for Thomas E. Dewey over Harry S. Truman. In 1960, more students voted for Richard M. Nixon than for John F. Kennedy. In 2000, a majority of student voters chose George W. Bush, mirroring the Electoral College result, but not the result of the popular vote. http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3750501 The youth of America has spoken!
In my third grade class, only 3 people out of 30 voted for McGovern. I voted for Nixon. The girl I liked was one of the three and everyone was making fun of her afterwards.
Living on an Air Force base in Madrid when I voted for Nixon over Humphrey. military brat But I loved Scholastic News.
Sorry you felt the need to edit the post. I remember you mentioning your wife involved with Scholastic.
I don't know why you would say this because this poll was open to students in the 12th grade as well. If you consider our high school students "dumb" then I guess you're conceding to the fact that our future is doomed and "dumb" And to go along with others, since when did you change your vote, my friend?
kids that young typically just echo what their parents do i assume the ones in the 20s are the damned starry eyed liberals
I remember my aunt told all of her children, nieces, nephews to vote for Mondale. We agreed, of course but then after the school vote we all got together and started talking. It turned out we all voted for Reagan due to peer pressure from the rest of the students.
when I was in class in 2000 we had a school-wide election and the teacher told us to vote and since I was in elementary school the teacher told us to vote Bush "because he is a republican and republicans care about us while democrats only focus on the government" she literally said that.
It wasn't until after the 84 school election I began to consider the Democratic party. All the kids in my class voted for Reagan (duh, he made movies with MONKEYS) and we couldn't figure out why the teachers liked Mondale (whom we all considered very ugly). Ms. Brock told me the reason that teachers didn't vote Republican. "Because we're poor," she said. I proudly voted Dukakis in eighth grade.
In 1988, I was a senior in high school. I wrote a small program to tally votes along with a survey of issues. A day or so before the election, the government teacher told the entire school at an assembly that I wrote it, and that I should take the blame if it didn't work. Sure enough, thanks to a problem I should have tested for, it didn't work. I got it to run the next day, but we already knew that Bush won. But even then, my UI was confusing enough that people weren't voting for president -- just filling out the survey. *sigh* (I voted for Dukakis -- he won by about 15%, I think.) Geek information: Spoiler I was using HyperCard stacks.A few of the Macs (including the one I developed on) had version 1.2, but the others only had 1.1. In version 1.2, they added a synonym for "background", "bg". I used "bg" in my stack because I was too lazy to use "bkgnd". So, my stack crashed on most of the Macs. I used two large buttons with caricatures of Bush and Dukakis, as hastily sketched below: I never tested the UI, which was a mistake (of course). So, I went around and clicked the appropriate presidential choice based on their survey answers.
