Just days before Americans choose our next president, voting has concluded in the Weekly Reader Student Presidential Election Poll. And the nation’s students resoundingly say that Barack Obama will be the country’s next leader.
In the 14th Weekly Reader election survey, with more than 125,000 votes cast from kindergarten through 12th grade, the result was Obama 54.7% and John McCain 42.9% (with “other” candidates receiving 2.5% of the student vote). The Obama victory in the classroom electoral vote was even more resounding: The Democrat won 33 states and the District of Columbia, garnering 420 electoral votes, while McCain took 17 states and 118 electoral votes.
For the past 52 years, the results of the Weekly Reader poll have been consistently on target, with the student vote correctly predicting the next president in 12 out of 13 elections. The only time the kids were wrong was 1992, when they chose George H.W. Bush over Bill Clinton.
Obama was the victor in every grade — except grade 10, which chose McCain. The results were the tightest in the 11th grade, where Obama slid by with a 1.5% victory, followed by second grade, where Obama won by a margin of 1.8%. The widest spread appeared in the ninth grade, where Obama’s gigantic 85.6% beat McCain’s 12.4% — a whopping 73.2% margin!
Many poll-trackers credit the kids’ accuracy to telling the truth about parents who answer polls by saying they’re “undecided”. In truth, they’ve made up their minds and their decisions aren’t disguised over the supper table. No reason to appear independent to the family. And children are very likely to be following their parents’ lead.
Thanks, Votemaster
When you’ve been told to “get the hell off my lawn!” seven times in a row, you begin to get the message.
Survey is worthless because of the GOP faithful kids’ don’t go to school OR are in resting homes which means they are too old to have school-aged children. Just more liberal media bias.
Here it is, my friends, another example of how the tax and spend liberals are wasting precious resources wooing the 8 year-old vote.
Who are these 8 year-olds? What do we really know about them?
Maverick little jerks.
This reminds me when I had a mock election in elementary school in 1984 – I voted for Mondale, following my parents lead as well. Reagan won.
#36 indy said, “I voted for Mondale, following my parents lead as well. Reagan won.”
Don’t worry, your parents were in good company, with about 20 other American’s…
Reagan Mondale
Electoral vote 525 13
Paddy started: Don’t worry, your parents were in good company, with about 20 other American’s…
20 other American’s what?
The only survey/poll that matters is the one Fox News is quoting endlessly today, Rasmussen. Not ironically, it is an outlier compared to <a href=’http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/08-us-pres-ge-mvo.php’ just about every other poll. And guess what? Rasmussen is calling it a dead heat.
Crap, so where’s the tutorial on creating those fargin’ links? And why can’t all blogs do it the same fargin’ way.
Looks like my worshipers already got owned.
Besides, you guys attacked my post in the wrong way. I was responding to #7 and the editor, not the article. This was clear in my post.
Epic fail by the liberal hacks. You’re owned.
#41 bagpipes – /Some Display Text/
Here’s your link
#42,
ROFL. If you mean owned as in republicanism is about ready to be crushed under the tide of public sentiment, then yes, we are owned.
#40 Olo Bilgewater of Bywater said, “20 other American’s what?”
Please try to read posts that you respond to.
The other American’s that voted for Mondale.
Get the joke?
You can deduce from this that young children can already identify with a leader like Obama. An inspirational person that will help lead us out of the despair they sense in the parents eyes.
It must be disheartening to Republican parents that it takes till high school age to pollute their children’s young minds with racism, fear, belief in ghosts and to be self serving.
Paddy: The other American’s what that voted for Mondale?
They are about as informed as the “welfare state” that the dems are so diligently trying to get to the polls. No surprise … they vote for the guy that sounds good and makes the biggest promises. Never mind that he doesn’t have a record to judge his real abilities by… watch the video
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=208453
/start yada yada
52 years they been doing this?
funny, i none of the schools i went to ever
had such a thing. nor have i ever heard of it until today..
nice to know they start the brainwashing at kindergarten now.
-at this rate, i guess by 2025, we’ll have full blown social welfare state
state lovers voting..
otherwise…rofl.. given the amount of voter fraud already being reported on *both* sides,
anyone who gives this pole the time of day is as clueless as the rest of the “pole mongers”
-i have seen more poles by companies i never of heard before in the past
2 months than at any other time in my life. -let alone just the amount of
poles being done this cycle.. -and so far at 45, i have never been “polled”
for any reason, let alone for an election. -so why the hell should i ever believe
one to begin with..
most poles outside the USA have had them at a 2-4 point spread max..
even AP has been reporting a very narrow spread the last few weeks..
of course our MSM has been brainwashing everyone with these bullsh**
10-14 point obamamania spreads for weeks..
-how is it you get a few poles with 2-4 point
spreads and a few with 10-14 (or more) point spreads in the same week?
who are the morons that even believe polls? -and is there a law that
allows the ones that vote based on polling data to be neutered??
quite obvious to anyone with a brain knows that this will be the most corrupt
election in history..
i gather if the MSM wants to have ever have the hopes of ever having any
credibility again, this is why you’ll start to see their numbers narrow rapidly.
-not that it will make a hill of beans difference. who wins was already decided
years ago.. the mainstream media and it’s owners are just making this horse race
will be nothing less than a spectacular computerized photoshoped finish..
-no doubt the computers will be the source of contention and civil unrest
in this election. especially the popular vote..
(this could also be why congress effectively nullified the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878
last year (it prohibits the use of using our military against the American people)
and recalled the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team back from
Iraq and put under NORTHCOM control as of Oct 1st 2008 to “be called upon to help with civil
unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive
poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological,
nuclear or high-yield explosive (CBRNE) attack.”
-i’m just saying…if you step back and look at the big picture, i hsve to ask
why? -and why now? -esp alongside these half baked foiled assassination attempts.
-after the lawyers…i think the mainstream media needs to be sent to
the bottom of the sea as well..then maybe we get kick out all 500+ people in the
3 houses and start fresh..
/end yada yada
-s
#46 Dallas said, “You can deduce from this that young children can already identify with a leader like Obama.”
Or, like Barney the purple dinosaur…
#29, Cow-Paddy,
Why, the statement doesn’t say that all conservatives have brains.
The statement also doesn’t say anything about ANY conservative having brains.
This helps to explain why you are an ignorant, homophobic, racist idiot.
#45, Cow-Paddy,
Please try to read posts that you respond to.
We all did. Just because you are an ignorant homophobic, racist, idiot means we can decipher the drivel you spew.
#47 – Olo
>>Paddy: The other American’s what that voted
>>for Mondale?
Don’t expect O’Furniture to be able to master things like punctuation. I think he’s an illegal immigrant who hasn’t mastered the complexities of the English language yet.
#54, Mustard,
And he claims to have shot two people too. That sure made up for his small penis.
My wife outdid him though. She has been doing part of the Hospital’s Flu shot program and she’s given at least 100 people shots so far this week.
Of course the kids will vote for Obama.
He’s new, shiny and speaks of promise and hope. He doesn’t dwell on thinks like we have a lot of work to do. That changes take resolve and sacrifice. That sometimes we have to get our hands dirty and tighten our belts.
No its just fluffy kittens and big flaming pies in the sky.
To any child that will work. Especially ones that came from the baby boomer and later legacies that grew up thinking every american is ENTITLED to whatever they wish due to the fact their forebearers suffered through teh depression and WWII. Not of course being told that we didn’t HAVE to suffere from that or from events of today if we had done the RIGHT things and not just thought only of ourselves.
A cycle that keeps repeating over and over.
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This is why the REPUKES OPPOSE PUBLIC EDUCATION !!! Ordinary People might learn to read and analyze the UNENDING STREAM OF ***BULL-SH*T THAT STREAMS FROM THE RNC AND THEIR CANDIDATES !!!