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Kids pick Clinton over Trump in nationwide mock election - USA TODAY
https://apple.news/Az4A-KkrTSIW-bGg1fn1JXA

I believe the children are the future

Every four years since 1940, America’s schoolchildren have gone to the polls, casting ballots in a mock presidential election that has uncannily predicted the outcome of nearly every race — including all 13 contests since 1964.

This year about 153,000 students cast ballots. Their candidate?

Hillary Clinton, in a landslide.

The Democratic former first lady and U.S. senator garnered 52% to Republican real estate developer Donald Trump’s 35%. In all, Clinton, who is surging in the grown-up polls, carried enough states to win an eye-popping 436 electoral votes to Trump's 99.

Clinton needs just 270 electoral votes to win, and the poll-tracking website fivethirtyeight.com on Monday put her total as high as 345 electoral votes.

Among schoolchildren, Clinton carried nearly every battleground state: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Ohio. She also carried Alaska, Idaho, Texas and Utah, all traditionally red states.

Trump, who this week trails in virtually every real-life poll, carried Iowa and 15 reliably red states.

But this year’s fraught election cycle brought a few unexpected results. “Other” candidates — write-ins as well as third-party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein — garnered 13% of the vote, an unusually high percentage. In years past, they've never risen above 5%. “Other” candidates this year actually edged out both Clinton and Trump in the District of Columbia to earn three electoral votes.

The election is a lock as long as you go vote tbh

Wiki

Each election year since 1940, Scholastic has administered the Scholastic Student Vote, a national mock presidential election. The results of the Student Vote have been correct in all but two elections, 1948 (Truman vs. Dewey) and 1960 (Kennedy vs. Nixon). At the end of the Student Vote, kid reporters have announced the results to the nation on the NBC Today Show in New York City. During the 2012 election, nearly a quarter of a million students participated, the majority voting for Barack Obama.

via Laevateinn

 

[Hatty]

Rigged

 

[Laevateinn]

In all, Clinton, who is surging in the grown-up polls, carried enough states to win an eye-popping 436 electoral votes to Trump's 99.

Still too many.

 

[FairyD]

Main stream media manipulating the results once again. I predict those kids won't make it to high school.

 

[zelas]

I would love to talk to these children Trump voters. It would be a great and honest window into the family and culture that surrounds them.

 

[Arthr2ShdsJcksn]

I remember doing this for the Reagan/Mondale '84 election when I was in kindergarten. I voted Reagan because that's what my family told me, and a female VP was entirely ridiculous to them.

 

[SocksAndShoes]

Obviously these were election child actors, paid by the leftist media. SAD!

 

[daveo42]

Democrats are rigging elections by having children vote! SAD!

 

[studyguy]

Look at this propaganda piece of shit here.
"llama llama time to share" More like Llama Llama time for communism
"I'm not ready" For a KKKLINTON PRESIDENCY
"Get Happy" OR ELSE is the clear subtext here.

WAKE UP SHEEPLE

 

[Baraka in the White House]

Our local AM radio boner was salty about this story, dismissing Scholastic as an organization with, ws somewhat liberal lean."

Reality: biased against conservatism.

 

[echoshifting]

We need to lower the voting age to like...twelve. Maybe ten.

 

[Lord Frieza]

It doesn't mean a whole lot at the end of the day, of course, but it really warms my heart to read that.

 

[chrisPjelly]

"Of course she gets people with the tiniest hands"

 

[Zubz]

We need to lower the voting age to like...twelve. Maybe ten.

Yeah. Kids are generally pretty dumb, but this does at least give me hope that as younger generations start voting, we're going to start seeing some turn around politically.

 

[Solid SOAP]

Fucking rigged!

 

[stilgar]

Crooked Hillary relying on children to make her campaign look less of a disaster. Sad!

 

[HStallion]

Now we're going to see Hillary getting interviewed by PewDiePie and will be talking about Minecroft.

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

I remember doing this for the Reagan/Mondale '84 election when I was in kindergarten. I voted Reagan because that's what my family told me, and a female VP was entirely ridiculous to them.

Yep, me too. I was one of two kids voting for Mondale in my class, haha. That turned out to be a perfect sample size!

Speaking of which, this is pretty interesting. Kids vote how their parents vote. So unless some kids are just scared shitless of Trump regardless of what they hear at home, this might be a harbinger of a blowout.

 

[NeonBlack]

We need to lower the voting age to like...twelve. Maybe ten.

I'll put a wall at the border and ban homework.

 

[BronsonLee]

Clearly the plot of The Baby-Sitter's Club

 

[Grizzlyjin]

This is how The Hunger Games prequel starts, I'm sure.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Listen to the kids, bro

 

[Adaren]

When I was a kid, I wanted Bush to win because elephants were cooler than donkeys.

My, how times have changed.

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

I thought young adults liked dystopian futures. Sad!

 

[gutter_trash]

schools are a place of brain rigging, folks.

 

[EMT0]

While this is neat, there are a lot of kids who's parents can't actually vote, since a sizable number of them are immigrants legal or otherwise. In such a polarized political landscape between the crazy and the sane, I wouldn't use this as a projection of the results outside of Hillary winning; it won't be anywhere close to this much of a landslide :/

 

[rekameohs]

Well yeah, everyone's saying that educated voters are flocking to her.

 

[BobTheFork]

Please Donald, please start talking shit on Children's Scholastic.

Just go for it.

 

[blakep267]

My elementary school did this once. Al Gore won in a landslide. Also it was a pretty in depth process. We actually had to study policy and what they stood for etc. watched debates

 

[Arthr2ShdsJcksn]

Speaking of which, this is pretty interesting. Kids vote how their parents vote. So unless some kids are just scared shitless of Trump regardless of what they hear at home, this might be a harbinger of a blowout.

Thinking that's true. I know I didn't know anything about politics when I participated. I just did what I heard my parents talking about. I was actually bummed out though when I found out that our votes didn't actually count. When they told us we were voting, the teacher made such a big deal about it that I thought, for sure, that kids were picking the president.

 

[old manatee]

A couple of weeks ago my 3 year old nephew picked up a toy phone and told my dad that he was going to put on a Donald Trump video for him to watch. It made me feel so icky to know that his little squishy brain has been relentlessly barraged with Donald Trump from all angles.

 

[Dash_Riprock]

Can't wait for the GoP to accuse Scholastic of Liberal Bias and brainwashing children.

 

[djkimothy]

Does this skew the uneducated voter demographic?

 

[Y2Kev]

I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them rig the election.

 

[Solid SOAP]

Speaking of which, this is pretty interesting. Kids vote how their parents vote. So unless some kids are just scared shitless of Trump regardless of what they hear at home, this might be a harbinger of a blowout.

I voted for Bush in my 2nd grade election because his name sounded like mush and I thought that was funny

 

[DragonSworne]

And this is how racism propagates from generation to generation. 99 electoral votes for Trump? Smh

 

[Jpop]

When I was a kid, I wanted Bush to win because elephants were cooler than donkeys.

My, how times have changed.

I was actually an Al Gore fan as a kid but my family hated him. As an adult I look back and just think, "It makes so much sense now."

 

[TheRagnCajun]

I believe all the polls are too kind to Trump. I expect Trump to be 10 points down from what the polls predict.

 

[Toa TAK]

I always enjoy seeing these Scholastic elections.

 

[John Kowalski]

Children aren't the future. They won't be children then. Plenty time to turn evil.

 

[Laevateinn]

From wikipedia:

Each election year since 1940, Scholastic has administered the Scholastic Student Vote, a national mock presidential election. The results of the Student Vote have been correct in all but two elections, 1948 (Truman vs. Dewey) and 1960 (Kennedy vs. Nixon). At the end of the Student Vote, kid reporters have announced the results to the nation on the NBC Today Show in New York City. During the 2012 election, nearly a quarter of a million students participated, the majority voting for Barack Obama.

Both elections that were wrong were incredibly close.

 

[Bonen no Max'd]

IDAHO KIDS

WISE BEYOND THEIR YEARS

Maybe there is hope in the future of my state.

Also, the idea of children picking Nixon over Kennedy is deeply hilarious to me now.

 

[AYF 001]

Clearly not poorly educated enough to vote for Donald. Besides, if those kids were REAL American patriots, they'd already be working in the coal mines 12 hours a day for 10 cents an hour!

Maybe they should do a follow up poll and ask what senators to vote for?

 

[Meowster]

I remember doing something like this in 2008.

Spoiler

I was a rebel and voted HRC

 

[NCR Redslayer]

While this is neat, there are a lot of kids who's parents can't actually vote, since a sizable number of them are immigrants legal or otherwise. In such a polarized political landscape between the crazy and the sane, I wouldn't use this as a projection of the results outside of Hillary winning; it won't be anywhere close to this much of a landslide :/

Well yes but I feel that this just shows kids are less biased than their parents. Who knows how biased this election was tho.

 

[Linkura]

In 2000, I was in the 8th grade. They did a grade-wide poll, and Nader won somehow.

 

[Enduin]

I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them rig the election.

Children were a mistake. Nothing but trash.

Also these kids were all butter faces too. Who would want them? Not me. I'd never walk in unannounced into their dressing rooms.

/Trump

 

[turmoil]

I had a hard time parsing this as I thought that scholastic meant scholasticism.

 

[Armaly]

I had a hard time parsing this as I thought that scholastic meant scholasticism.

It's the dudes that do the school book fairs.

 

[grandjedi6]

Kids just vote what their parents vote. These kids parents are likely to be in the 25-35 age range. That age range tends to vote might democratic these days.