Scholastic News poll predicts Obama wins Election 2008 |
This morning on CNN two impressively mature Scholastic Kids Press Corps reporters were on. They aren’t old enough to vote, but that didn’t stop them from having a poll among the children of our future. How did the poll go?
Obama got 57% of the votes while McCain got 39% in the Election 2008 Kids Vote:
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.
Wondering how accurate these kids have been? Since 1940 the kids poll results have only been wrong twice versus the popular results. In 1960 and in 2000. They also provide results from the swing states of: Colorado (McCain), Florida (Obama), Indiana (McCain), Iowa (Obama), Michigan (Obama), Missouri (McCain), Ohio (Obama) and Pennsylvania (Obama).
And for the Twitter fans, yes, the Scholastic Kids are twittering at http://twitter.com/scholasticnews. Don’t laugh, they are probably right more than most of the adult political pundits and bloggers.
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This is really cool and the first time I have ever heard of a poll like this of this size, and this could have only been pulled off on the internet. a poll with 250,000 kids voting I think it is just awesome that we can now get the opinions of our future generations and how about that they actually voted like what most parents at least if the current polls are correct
Comment by Miguelmateos — October 15, 2008 @ 10:41 pm PST
Can’t fault ‘em for calling the 2000 election for Gore.
Comment by Salil Maniktahla — October 17, 2008 @ 8:42 am PST
Those damn kids and their liberal bias!
Comment by McIrishMom — October 22, 2008 @ 11:27 am PST
That’s hilarious. One reason these kids are so accurate though is because they are mostly persuaded to one side or another by their parents (people who do actually vote) so they are just basically a representation of their parents.
Comment by John Segal — October 26, 2008 @ 8:45 am PST
I just hope that the kids vote 2008 will show the same result as the real vote. Go Obama !
Comment by computerfis — October 29, 2008 @ 1:45 pm PST
I think that kids are very intuitive and not as easily persuaded as they once were by their parents believes, they are smarter today and they are a little more aware of there surroundings which makes them a great source of new ideas and better ones as well also they would vote on what they think not what they read in the newspapers or hear on the news
Comment by Easy — November 4, 2008 @ 8:26 pm PST
Guess they were right, lol
Comment by Ky — November 4, 2008 @ 8:41 pm PST
Yes, he won the election and the following is an example of our tax paying dollars at work, but hey, whats tax dollars amongst friends….
Let’s say you’re preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don’t have any certified organic Tuscan kale. What to do?
“Here’s how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday afternoon:
The Secret Service and the D.C. police brought in three dozen vehicles and shut down H Street, Vermont Avenue, two lanes of I Street and an entrance to the McPherson Square Metro station. They swept the area, in front of the Department of Veterans Affairs, with bomb-sniffing dogs and installed magnetometers in the middle of the street, put up barricades to keep pedestrians out, and took positions with binoculars atop trucks. Though the produce stand was only a block or so from the White House, the first lady hopped into her armored limousine and pulled into the market amid the wail of sirens.”
Comment by John Musca — September 29, 2009 @ 9:37 am PST
Kind of wondering where John Musca was over the last 8 years. I guess spending a few grand on personal protection so the loonies don’t kill the First Black President is BAD.
But spending over a trillion dollars to wage an illegal and immoral war against Iraq? Goooooood. And then innocent people become “collateral damage,” while over here they’re “terrorist victims.”
Or how about those last few years of financial deregulation? How about the burnt sacrifices at the Altar of Friedman?
Comment by Salil Maniktahla — September 29, 2009 @ 9:45 am PST