Weekly Reader or not, we have never had a Presidential Pole, although in the 70s, Ed Muskie ran for President.
Must have been going against Obama.
They are now Scholastic News since Scholastic Books bought them out.
Their poll had Obama winning, but the poll was taken in early October.
FWIW, I'd have kept the Weekly Reader title and junked Scholastic News, but I guess they want to use the magazine to prop up their book sales.
man, I haven’t though of the Reekly Weeder in 50 years!
The current-events magazine Weekly Reader, a classroom fixture since 1928, will not be returning from summer vacation, its new owner, Scholastic, confirmed this week.
Instead, Scholastic will fold the publication into its own weekly magazine, Scholastic News; the first issues will be co-branded with both names, Kyle Good, a spokeswoman for Scholastic, wrote in an e-mail.
The magazine is perhaps best known for its presidential poll of students, which proved uncannily accurate — since it began with Dwight Eisenhower vs. Adlai Stevenson in 1956, it was wrong only once, in 1992, when it predicted that President George H.W. Bush would defeat Bill Clinton (the poll did not include Ross Perot). The 14th poll predicted a victory by Barack Obama.
He it by 6, but 4 years ago he won be about 17 so an 11 point drop.
They did do the poll in Texas schools.. All of my young grandkids told me.. However, I believe they didn’t post the results this year.. I wonder why????
I thought it was just Texas, obviously not.. Oblameothers is going down BIG, he even lost the kindergarteners this year.. LOLOLOL
We used to get the Weekly Reader in grade school years and years ago. I enjoyed it and looked forward to it; it even had a nice sort of smell to it as well, similar to mimeographed pages of stuff.
The few Scholastic News I have seen have a liberal bias. It always seems to mention global warming, how great Michele Obama is to create new menus for school cafeteria...etc etc