"The scary old man is a big mean poopyhead!" say tots.
In a Scholastic poll of a quarter of a million students who are too young to vote, Barack Obama sailed to victory with 57 percent of the vote while John McCain received 39 percent. Students have picked the winning candidate in all but two elections since 1940.
The two off-base years were 1948, when students picked Thomas Dewey over Harry Truman, and 1960, when they chose Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy. “Dewey-Truman was really close … and newspapers got that wrong, too,” noted Suzanne Freeman, executive editor of Scholastic Kids Press Corps and Scholastic News Online.
The two off-base years were 1948, when students picked Thomas Dewey over Harry Truman, and 1960, when they chose Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy. “Dewey-Truman was really close … and newspapers got that wrong, too,” noted Suzanne Freeman, executive editor of Scholastic Kids Press Corps and Scholastic News Online.
Normally I hate kids, but these actually seem ok.
1 comment:
Boy, isn't that stat (ie; about the high correlation between these grade schoolers opinions vs actual POTUS election results) explanatory! In opposition to the article's explanation (that kids are reflecting what they hear at home), I would suggest the very probable reason is that too many US voters continue to view the election through a grade-school lens...they don't intellectually change!
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