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Mock election update: Bush wins at Drakes Creek Middle School By Courtney Craig, ccraig@bgdailynews.com -- 270-783-3243 Saturday, October 30, 2004 President Bush won by a landslide in a mock election held at Drakes Creek Middle School earlier this week. According to social studies teacher Anthony Spires, Bush garnered 73.51 percent of the vote, while Sen. John Kerry had 21.8 percent. The results of the mock election, which was held Tuesday, were revealed Friday morning. In the U.S. Congress races, Sen. Jim Bunning and Rep. Ron Lewis both were favored among Drakes Creek voters. Drakes Creek’s mock election was part of...

While President Bush and Sen. John Kerry may be neck and neck in presidential election polls, if it were up to pupils from Department of Defense Dependents Schools in Europe, Bush would win by a landslide. Pupils from all grades in many schools in Europe have been participating in mock elections or other election week events. Votes at many of the participating schools put Bush ahead, some by margins of up to 2-to-1. Of schools and districts contacted, only the Heidelberg District’s online voting program, which had 99 votes cast as of Thursday afternoon, had Kerry over Bush with 55...

The students who read Weekly Reader’s magazines have made their preference for President known: they want to send President Bush back to the White House. The results of this year’s Weekly Reader poll have just been announced, and the winner is President Bush. Hundreds of thousands of students participated, giving the Republican President more than 60% of the votes cast and making him a decisive choice over Democratic Senator John Kerry.

Results of a school mock election.

The nationwide ethical breakdown continues: Hundreds of public schoolchildren, some as young as 11, are taking time out of regular classes to canvass neighborhoods in Milwaukee, Madison and Racine in a get-out-the-vote effort organized by Wisconsin Citizen Action Fund - a group whose umbrella organization has endorsed John Kerry for president. The coalition says the effort is non-partisan, but because the group is targeting minority neighborhoods and those with historically low voter turnout - overwhelmingly Democratic areas - Republican operatives are crying foul amid the highly charged political atmosphere in the state. Kerry and George Bush are virtually tied in...

Forget the swing states: It's the swing set that counts By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY Pundits come and pundits go, but one group has quietly predicted the winner of the presidential election every four years since the Eisenhower administration: kids. Polling experts say kids' votes reflect their parents' views, but a Gallup official says the results are irrelevant because the poll was not random. By Tim Dillon, USA TODAY Most political junkies won't give it the time of day, but the Weekly Reader presidential poll of schoolchildren has pegged every winner since 1956. This year's winner? George W. Bush —...

Two national polls of American children have markedly different results this year, one showing President Bush a clear winner, and the other predicting an even bigger win for Sen. John Kerry. Interestingly, both unscientific surveys proclaim historical accuracy in presidential prognostications. In the first poll, conducted by Scholastic, the global children's publishing and media company, more than half a million students in first through eighth grades from across the U.S. participated. They voted online and through mail-in paper ballots found in many of Scholastic's classroom magazines. "George W. Bush won the kids' election poll with 52 percent of the vote,"...

Bush Secures 393 Electoral Votes and Wins All Swing States But One, With Kerry Receiving 145 Electoral VotesSponsored by Clearasil, Channel One's OneVote 2004 Initiative One of the Largest Online Teen Votes Ever With Nearly 1,400,000 Ballots LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- President George W. Bush was elected to a second term as President with 55% of the votes in Channel One News' OneVote 2004, one of the largest online teen elections in US history. Senator John Kerry received 40%, with 5% voting for a third party candidate. Although pundits believe that there are a number of "swing" states...

Young People, who hold the key to America’s future, have voted for John Kerry to become president in Nickelodeon’s “Kids Pick the President.” This may not seem that important to many voters, but the winner of Nickelodeon’s “Kids Pick the President” has correctly selected the winner of the election the past four times. Nearly half a million children and teens voted, and the results were released yesterday. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry received 57 percent of the vote and Incumbent President George W. Bush received 43 percent of the vote. Third Party candidates were not put onto the ballot. Nickelodeon is...

Interesting Results, while Bush won nationlly 52-47, and comments were made that Ohio and Florida were close, it stated Pennsylvania went with Bush at 57%. Generally kids follow thier Parents leads. Now I know that doesn't include all seniors, singles etc.. But that is a pretty wide percentage and possibly telling.

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LANCASTER - Who says they're not old enough to vote? Sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders at Amargosa Creek Middle School cast their ballots Tuesday afternoon during a mock presidential election that reflected a nearly even divide between the school's young voters. Only 27 votes, out of more than 1,000, separated the two presidential candidates on the Amargosa ballot. Students erupted as George W. Bush, with 521 votes, was declared the winner over John Kerry, who drew 494 votes. "Look how close that was. Talk about every vote counting, you guys," Heather Allison told her eighth-grade Gifted and Talented Education students, who...

Scholastic Election Poll Has Mirrored Outcome of Every General Election Except Two Since 1940 NEW YORK, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Scholastic, the global children's publishing and media company, today announced the results of the 2004 Scholastic Election Poll, an educational activity that gives children too young to go to the polls themselves the opportunity to participate in the political process. More than half a million students in first through eighth grades from across the country participated in the poll, choosing George W. Bush as the next President of the United States. Since 1940, Scholastic Classroom Magazines have given students the...

I had been wondering when the Weekly Reader poll was going to come out, looks like October 25. I for one would be very depressed (no matter what the other polls are saying at the time) if this didn't show Bush as the winner. I fully expect that it will, as I have had several people tell me that their kids conducted "informal" polls in their class and found Bush to be the big winner. Millions of students are expected to cast a vote in Weekly Reader's presidential poll. Students can vote online, by ballot or by calling toll-free 888-964-2904....

NEW YORK - Kid power! Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) is the winner, and the rest of the country should pay attention because the vote on Nickelodeon's Web site has correctly chosen the president of the United States in the past four elections. Nearly 400,000 children and teens voted, and the results were released Wednesday. Kerry received 57 percent of the vote; President Bush (news - web sites) got 43 percent.

SPRING HILL - Arianna Medina hadn't given much thought to the presidential election until she joined roughly 50 million other Americans who tuned in to the debates between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry. That's when she noticed something a bit disquieting and unpresidential about the incumbent. "Bush would get really nervous and would start twitching," Medina said, shortly after casting a vote for Kerry. Unfortunately for the Massachusetts Senator, Medina's vote won't get him any closer to the Oval Office. Medina, 10, and her fellow students at Deltona Elementary School each received a taste of the democratic process Wednesday...

Ask people of voting age who they want to win the presidential election, and the answers will range from impassioned to illogical. Informed to indoctrinated. Inspired to insipid. When the people you're polling are fourth-graders, the results aren't much different. The 9- and 10-year-olds' answers are just a little more colorful. And candid. Unlike the televised debates between the President George Bush and Democratic hopeful Sen. John Kerry, there was plenty of spirited discussion in Kosciusko and Attala County classrooms when the youngsters were polled last week. They cast their ballots privately, but were told they could talk about their...

My son came home from school today and said they discussed the debate in his second grade class. This is a catholic school, and the kids are pretty evenly divided. The division has spilled over onto the playground and in the lunchroom; the kids have divided themselves into factions. My son is the deFacto leader of the Bush supporters, and the leader of the Kerry supporters is the son of a lead singer of a country band that most country fans know. (No, I'm not going to say who, although this lead singer has been very vocal about his support...

My students voted in the weekly reader poll today. (Official results for the nation will be out next month). Anyway, I tried to be objective. It was hard. The best I could say about Kerry was "Kerry has some different ideas and thinks he can do a better job than Bush." Anyway, Bush won with 16 votes. Kerry had 5. Even the girl who I know her parents are big Kerry supporters voted for Bush! Why can't America be as smart as my students?

Press Release Source: NeoPets, Inc. Kids Favor John Kerry, Fox News in Myers/Neopets.com Political Poll Wednesday August 18, 6:01 am ET Poll Asks Kids Aged 8-17 Who They Would Vote for, What Issues Are Most Important to Them, Where They Get Their Elections News GLENDALE, Calif., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Although they are not old enough to vote, young people have become increasingly influential and involved in politics, and their perspective on current events offers unique insight into the influence of media on the formation of opinions and values. In a Jack Myers/Neopets.com Political Poll taken following the Democratic National...