*** ELECTION RESULTS ARE IN!!!! OBAMA WINS 57% to 39%!!!! ***

[SKKY]

This poll, done by kids of kids, has been dead on for the past 40 years!!!

http://us.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/10/14/kids.poll.president.cnn

[Bucky]

1. Done by kids of kids? You mean by the children of underaged parents?

My mind bristols at the thought of children that young understanding politics.

[RoadRage]

5. Your mind gets unintentionally pregnant at the thought

of kids talking about politics?

Sorry.. you said Bristols. ;)

[damonm]

2. I just posted this - I'll ask the mods to kill it.

[damonm]

3. Mine, that is...

[WI_DEM]

4. does it say how many kids participated?

[SKKY]

6. I didn't hear that mentioned. To be honest, I didn't think about asking that question...

...I couldn't get past the accuracy of their record.

[1corona4u]

7. From their website;

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.

[SKKY]

8. Well there you go!

[XemaSab]

9. According to the Scholastic website, almost 250,000

:bounce:

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/scholasticNews.jsp?FromBrowseMod=true&Ns=Pub_Date_Sort|1&CurrPage=scholasticNews.jsp&TopicValue=Scholastic%20News

[1corona4u]

12. Yeah, I had just posted it above, did you miss it?

[XemaSab]

15. Sorry, didn't mean to step on your toes

I started writing my post before you had posted, so I didn't see your post. :shrug:

[budkin]

10. I thought they had Kerry winning in 2004?

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. The pollsters forgot to skim off some of the votes for ** a la diebold.

[SKKY]

13. Nope. They called that one to..

....the little bastards!!!! :sarcasm:

[JuniperLea]

14. I was in one of the first groups to do this poll!

There was a tear-out in our Weekly Reader as I recall. Hmmm... Nixon - Goldwater?