Obama Wins Scholastic News Election Poll (hasn't been wrong since JFK)

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Obama Wins Scholastic News Election Poll

Almost 250,000 (a quarter of a million) kids voted by paper ballot or online


By Jack Greenberg | October 14 , 2008

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.

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http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3750501

:woohoo:

Sez we win Ohio 51-47%!!!

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1. I voted in the 1960 poll.

I was in first grade, and Nixon won handily. It didn't quite work out that way on election day.