Posted on 10/18/2016 11:02:12 AM PDT by LibertyorDeath2
The kids have only been wrong twice since 1940. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has bested her Republican rival, businessman Donald Trump in a mock “election” that surveyed thousands of American students. While these results won’t count this November, luckily for her, these kids are rarely wrong.
With about three weeks left before the 2016 presidential election, Scholastic News reports that the 153,000 K-12 students that voted across the country overwhelmingly backed former Secretary of State and First Lady Clinton over Trump.
Clinton drew 52% of the student vote compared to Trump’s 35%. The vote by the kids is on trend with today’s polling, as data collected by trackers at The New York Times and FiveThirtyEight indicate Clinton is heavily favored to win next month.
The kids surveyed by Scholastic have proven to be soothsayers of sorts. Since 1940, the outcome of the student vote has mirrored the results of every presidential election with only two exceptions. The kids were wrong in 1948 for the Thomas Dewey vs. Harry Truman election. They also incorrectly backed Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy in 1960.
“In this unprecedented and contentious presidential race, students have made their voices heard by casting their votes in our mock election for president,” said Elliott Redhun, editor-in-chief of Scholastic Classroom Magazines, in a statement.
Clinton won 10 of the 11 battleground states that Scholastic called out in the company’s report. Her victories were notably impressive in Colorado, Nevada, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Clinton also won the student votes in Florida and North Carolina by nine points each and narrowly bested Trump by a single point in Ohio. Her only loss among the battleground states was in Iowa, a state that is a tossup in the real election as well.
The margin of victory the student “vote” predicts Clinton will win over Trump is far greater than what they signaled for President Barack Obama in 2012 in the vote against Republican Mitt Romney. In that race, they backed Obama 51% to 45% for Romney. Obama in 2008 versus challenger John McCain “won” the student vote by slightly more than Clinton’s current lead.
Interestingly, Scholastic said kids in 2016 were more split than in past elections, as 13% of student voters wrote in “other choices.” Write-in votes were cast for Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson (2%), Senator Bernie Sanders (1%), and Green Party candidate Jill Stein (1%). Others who received votes included rapper Kanye West, superhero Spider-Man, Harambe the gorilla, and of course, “mom.”
What?
We could have freeped this one lol
This is the most discouraging poll I have seen yet. Hoping it isn’t right this time.
No argument there. I work with Grad Students at a university.
• They can’t find their way in the building
• There is a girl in the program who lost her keys, 3 times in one week
• They lose their phones
• Their ID cards
• Their wallet
• Their purse
• Their books
• Their watch
• Mid-term, and don’t know the professor’s name
• Can’t tell me the name of the class
• Don’t know the room number for their class
• Can’t keep appointment dates or locations straight
• Forget meetings
• My desk drawer is filled with the stuff they lose and on any given day I have all this stuff in there.
• One of them totalled my car at a stop light-then jumped out and ran away. He told the police: “Oh yea…that wasn’t ME-someone stole my car and I wondered where it was…”
• There is trash all over the place even with a bin two steps away, at all times. These are your ‘earth first’ Liberals
These are ‘adults’ who are being paid on grants, etc. and can’t keep their sh&^ together from one minute to the next.
THEY vote!! Can you believe it?
Do you want to be the kiddo whose union teacher catches you voting for Trump?
And to think I wanted to be a college professor at one time.
Glad I passed that up. Don’t think I could stand it.
[Kids have been brainwashed....Why do you think parents are taking them out of public school.]
This is the second generation who have been brainwashed. Baby Boomers were at the very beginning of the ‘plan.’
Sure explains why Leftists do things like drop the voting age to 16 when they take power.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. - RONALD REAGAN
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again. - RONALD REAGAN
A past tyrant said something about not needing the adults, had the kids already.....
They will come clear across campus in the worst weather to my desk, to ask me for a phone number or an e mail address... either of which is public information on our web site.... the same people do this day in and day out.
They all have the newest handy dandy phones and computers, but still troop over here so I can look up this stuff for them.
Sign of the times...adults are becoming more juvenile.
Cartoon movies win at the box office and coloring books are not just for children anymore.
I just remembered one of the teachers I had back in 1964 who told the kids Goldwater was gonna start WWIII.
They have no common sense and cannot take care of them selves. No one thinks past his nose
And yet Trump Halloween masks are outselling Hillary’s 40 to 1.....
Something isn’t right here
target has banned the sale of creepy clown masks... that might be a factor.
Since Millenials don’t know diddley or squat about the Cold War I think I can safely say these kids know nothing of SERFDOM/\...so that in a few years when they become one they will wonder what the hell happened to America...well kiddies the wages of sin is death and good luck to you for helping create the Frankenstein Monster...
My own nephew who is 10 years old was shocked when we said we were voting for Trump.
You raise a child to behave a certain way and the soundbites they pulled for the videos is hard for a kid to jives with what they have been taught.
Many of their parents can not publicly say they support Trump so the kids have a false impression this time. They will be wrong for the third time.
Today is your FIRST DAY, you are a Non-Contributor = You are a TROLL
What about Halloween masks? Trump leads in sales, which usually indicates the winner.
They changed the Poll to an Internet Poll, which allowed ANYONE to vote....The Leftist rigged it
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