Eat Mock apple pie!
With a Mock turtle!
In their Mock turtle necks!
Posted on 11/01/2004 1:54:21 PM PST by onja
Hope this is interesting. It's my first post. At a local middle school (small) in Tennessee we had a mock election. The Re-enactment Club organized and acted out the election. They did campaigning, posters, mock DNC and RNC conventions, etc. On Monday, the day before the real election, the mock election was held. The results were: BUSH 316 votes or 68% and KERRY 149 votes or 32% . 16 teachers voted BUSH and 24 voted KERRY. In the Algebra class there were 19 people to vote Bush and 1 for Kerry. The Kerry supporters harshly criticized Bush, but after talking to them they seem ignorant of why Bush was so bad. They are uninformed but very dogmatic. Hope that this election is a prelude to the real one. (:0
So what did the 10,000 mock lawyers do after the results were announced?
Which is an amazing stat, considering there were only 97, registered Democrats in this mock election.
No dead teachers voted?
No students ballots thrown in the garbage?
Come on, we need all the variables that go into an election if we are going to take this serious!
In my high school (I teach math), the students picked Dubya over Kerry, 58% to 23%. (That means, I guess, that either 19% went to Nader, or someone in the office isn't up on their percentages. :) )
My fellow teachers are, in my best guess, 75% Kerry (which is one reason why I don't eat lunch in the lounge anymore--my stomach can only take so much). The teachers in question didn't seem very happy about the results, for some reason... (LOL!)
Eat Mock apple pie!
With a Mock turtle!
In their Mock turtle necks!
BUMP Nice post :)
One of our local schools did the very same. There was a good write up in our local paper. I know the mother of the boy who portrayed Kerry. She told me his teacher said that he done such a good job, she was afraid the students would vote Kerry. But, the results were a landslide for Bush!
Similar results here at my son's middle school. My son has been taking all of the photos here ( the funny ones mocking Kerry ) and putting them up on the bulletin boards at school. His teachers beg for more.
I wonder why the kids voted for Bush? It's interesting because you'd think all the teacher's would portray their own Kerry vs Bush bias.... I guess those kids are pretty smart though.... Must be W's No child left behind, we're going to have some mighty fine leaders in the future!
welcome to FR. GO GW !!!
The high school that my sons attend held a mock election last week with similar results.
Gives me hope for the future...
One of the middle schools in the south also held a mock election. Of of 1001 votes 68% of the students voted for Bush.
When I was in high school in 1996, Dole won overwhelmingly (something like 75-80%), with a significant minority for Perot. Clinton ranked a distant fourth. If only the rest of the country voted likewise.
The teachers kept quiet about who they support. We have a pretty conservative school; much more so than many schools I've heard of. We have several clearly Chistian/conservative teachers including several of my teachers.
My daughter's middle school is my polling place and they are going to do the Kids Vote there as well. I expect GWB to get the overwhelming majority of votes from the kids as well as the adults.
I know the mock Kerry. He proudly voted Bush. He was impressed into the service of being Kerry.
I think the key to this result is the (small) I will bet that kids from a big city would vote different. More of their parents have become accustomed to suckling on the tit of government.
My grandson's 7th grade class did a quick poll. First she polled for President Bush... 22 raised their hands. When she asked for Kerry supporters... 6 hands went up but as she started counting 1 kid lowered his hand. LOL
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