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It's All Over But the Voting

The kids have spoken. And the kids are hardly ever wrong. In fact, they haven't been wrong in 40 years.

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.

I guess the business about Obama being an Arab terrorist who associates with Williams Ayers and Reverend Jeremy Wright haven't filtered down to grade school yet. Or maybe it's just that these kids are the only ones in America smart enough not to give a shit.

Here's my question, though: What kind of crazy kids in 1960 would actually select grumpy old Nixon over good-looking, charming Kennedy? I blame Eisenhower. And Palin.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on October 15, 2008 (boomark / email).