On MSNBC - Scholastic News Election Poll (among kids)

[MamaDem]

Obama wins 57% to 39% - they have been right at every election with the exception being in 1960!! The number one issue is the environment!

Wow...this is great. My son participated in this and it makes me proud that our younger generation is thinking about issues!!

[npincus]

1. my daugher (6) calls him "Mo-rock Obama"

and calls our current 'leader', "President Tush". :rofl:

[Redbear]

3. My 4 year old says "Mo-rock Mo-bama"

is her president.

[npincus]

10. aw....

cute!

[moc]

13. My 6yo son calls him "Bronco Bronco". Makes me think of this. (pic)

[SuperTrouper]

16. I love it!! President Tush

:rofl:

[roguevalley]

17. this is a good measure of parental decisions because kids usually

repeat what their parents want. I know. I taught forever.

[jenmito]

2. I saw that. Those kids sounded more intelligent than most pundits!

:toast: to your son and all the other kids involved!

[KsStorm]

5. COOL!

My 13 year old is really getting into the election,& was horrified to see the Youtubes of all the racists at the Palin/McCain rallies. I remember going to the gym as a kid to do a mock election,& hearing the high-schoolers chanting "Carter Carter he's our man,Ford belongs in the garbage can!"

[CoffeeCat]

4. That's a cool drink of water....

...in the desert of anti-Obama comments that my 8 year old brings home
from school--on an almost-daily basis.

I posted on DU about her coming home and asking me, "Why does Jared
say that Barack Obama wants to kill babies and turn the country into
an ice cream social?"

Turns out Jared was telling my daughter that Obama wanted to kill
babies and make the country "socialist."

Yesterday, she came home and said that another friend told her that
"Barack Obama makes very, very poor choices."

I live in the suburbs, and there are a lot of fundie nutjobs here.

This poll restores my hope in humanity!

[cyberswede]

6. Straw poll last weekend

A local corn maze/pumpkin patch is holding a straw poll, and we all voted. The kids picked for themselves - they both chose Obama (they're 6 and 8). My 8 year-old was dismayed that McCain was winning this particular poll, but I told him he could only vote once. :)

[soleft]

7. I thought they picked Kerry in 2004.

[endthewar]

8. No, they picked Bush 52-47

They showed that on MSNBC too.

[jenmito]

9. Nope. They picked Bush 52%-47%. n/t

[blitzburgh55]

11. MSNBC link

The youth vote is in, and it says Obama will win
Since 1940, student voters have accurately picked all but two presidents

By Laura T. Coffey
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 1 hour, 37 minutes ago

Move over, pundits. Kids across America have got the 2008 presidential election all figured out.

In a poll of a quarter of a million students who are too young to vote, Democratic nominee Barack Obama sailed to victory with 57 percent of the vote while Republican nominee John McCain received 39 percent.

It may be easy to dismiss the poll — orchestrated every four years by Scholastic, a children’s publishing and media company — as mere child’s play. But here’s the uncanny thing about this educational exercise: Since 1940, student voters have accurately chosen all but two presidents.

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.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27172326/

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. Let's just hope they aren't too carefully taught...

As in the Rodgers & Hammerstein song:

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught!

[sonias]

14. Smart kids

If kids keep this up we'll have a very bright future generation!

:bounce:


Sonia

[merbex]

15. You know what's interesting about this poll? The "internals"

in order to have a child participate in this 'election' it usually means that the child's parents fall within a certain age demographic....when my kids were younger and took this I was between the ages of 34-38, I think you can safely say that the age of the parents will be between very late 20's to early forties of these kids.

What's equally nice is that if we can hold onto the parents for another election cyle or 2 the Democratic Party gets 2 generations just reflected in this 'election' result - some poli science theory suggests - for the rest of their life.