Posted on 10/21/2004 10:32:23 PM PDT by kingattax
Young Americans in a mock presidential election have chosen President Bush to occupy the White House for the next four years, producing another map of the U.S. dominated by "red states" in support of the Republican incumbent.
The election, conducted by Channel One, the company that provides a daily newscast for public schools across the nation, included the participation of nearly 1.4 million teenage Americans.
Bush received 55 percent of the popular vote, which translated into 393 electoral votes to Democrat John Kerry's 145 electoral votes. Kerry, who picked up 40 percent of the popular votes, won the states of California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia. All the other states went to Bush. Five percent of the voters chose the "third party" option.
Channel One's election map
The election produced a map similar to one that became popular with Bush supporters after the 2000 presidential election that showed all the counties Bush carried in red and the counties carried by then-Vice President Al Gore in Blue. A huge percentage of the 2000 map is red.
As WorldNetDaily reported, two other kids' mock elections were held this fall, with one going to Bush and one to Kerry.
The Scholastics participants chose Bush, 52-47 percent, while young Net surfers "elected" Kerry at Nickelodeon's website by a margin of 57-43 percent. Both polls claim their results have a consistent track record of predicting the actual winners of presidential elections.
This could spell real trouble for the Democrats in 2008 and 2012 when these kids can actually vote!
Now that is a beautiful picture!
Being that this poll tends to reflect the older, educated youth who are experiancing the effect of "leave no child behind" I think this to be a much more accurate outcome than nick's *cough* viacom *cough* liberal *cough* poll.
What a crock.
The Scholastics folks (publishers of the "Weekly Reader") have been doing this sort of thing for many years, going back into the '60s if not before.
How many presidential elections have been held since algore invented the internet? How long has Nickelodeon been on?
The Nicklodeon poll was just another online poll, and got the DU treatment. I don't think half the votes in it were even cast by kids. Not that it would have even been possible, but there was no attempt by Nicklodeon whatsoever to ensure the people voting were really kids. I know, because I voted in it. I just went to the site, saw the poll, and voted. Then I got a screen thanking me for voting. It wasn't even a membership only poll.
They have a better map than me.
I thought mine was optimistic.
KERRY-California, New York, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Maine, Vermont, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Delaware, Maryland, DC.
TOSS-UPS- Iowa, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida
I messed up the numbers. BUSH- 259 EV's. KERRY- 205 EV's, 79 EV's up for grabs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iowa (7)
New Hampshire (4)
Pennsylvania (21)
Ohio (20)
Florida (27)
If Bush wins any of the Penn, Ohio, Fla, he wins. If he gets Iowa and NH he wins
DemocRATS have lower fertility than Republicans. Children tend to emulate their parents' views. Long term the DemocRATS are in serious trouble.
Perhaps the red represents the Blood of Jesus covering most of America, showing His mercy and compassion and forgiveness toward America because we retained a moral leader as president of the USA.
amen...great post..Lord bless you
we've ought to get MICHIGAN. makes kerry's ability to pick up EV's slim to none.
Lovely map, and after the BIG ONE removes California, it will look even better.
GW will win Mich
Bush is up in the MICHIGAN polls. 47-43, 1% for Nader and 9% undecided.
Now , that's a map that I think most on here can live with.
See #8... anything I did wrong??
YEP! I was thinkin' that too.
And .. what's even more interesting .. the Bush-haters are about 37-39%. With Kerry coming out at 40% in this mock election, that's just about what I expect!!
Shouldn't it be a "faux" election, instead of "mock"?
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