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A New York elementary school has canceled its traditional mock presidential election after kids chanted “Trump” and repeated “negative rhetoric about minorities,” according to the school principal. Children at Jericho Elementary School in Centereach will be voting for their favorite school lunch instead of their favorite presidential candidate after their mock campaign season got too heated. “Some people were getting angry because some people like Trump and some people like Clinton,” fifth-grader Miranda Waters told a local ABC News affiliate. “Some people think Clinton’s not good. Some think Trump’s not good. So there’s a lot of arguments going on, and...

Minnesota high schoolers have spoken, and they’re choosing Donald Trump. Trump clinched a narrow win over Hillary Clinton in the first round of results in the inaugural statewide mock election for high school students, run by Secretary of State Steve Simon’s office. About 77,000 students from 213 high schools filled out ballots for U.S. President.

DALLAS TWP. – C.J. Good was succinct. He voted for former Gov. Mitt Romney because “I’m a Republican. (President Barack) Obama had his chance.” Considering Good is a Dallas Middle School eighth-grade student still a few years away from actually registering to vote, one assumes he is Republican in spirit at the moment, but as he “worked the polls” in the school lobby Friday, he kept his approach apolitical, handing out ballots without comment.

From a mom in Democratic country: My daughter just got back from middle school, in Stow, MA. They had a mock vote. Brown 62% and Coakley 29%. This from a school that had over 90% mock vote for Obama in 2008. And: Dear KLo, Hey, if Brown wins in Massachusetts (taking Kennedy’s Senate seat in the process), does that mean that the Republicans will have a chance of taking Obama’s Senate seat (now held by the disgusting Burris) in Illinois? Yes! Brown’s victory, if it happens, will give hope that even in this very blue state (because its politics is...

Hope this is interesting. It's my first post. At a local middle school (small) in Tennessee we had a mock election. The Re-enactment Club organized and acted out the election. They did campaigning, posters, mock DNC and RNC conventions, etc. On Monday, the day before the real election, the mock election was held. The results were: BUSH 316 votes or 68% and KERRY 149 votes or 32% . 16 teachers voted BUSH and 24 voted KERRY. In the Algebra class there were 19 people to vote Bush and 1 for Kerry. The Kerry supporters harshly criticized Bush, but after talking...

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...

Results of a school mock election.

American teens have spoken, and they want George W. Bush for president. Nearly 1.4 million teens voted in the nation's largest mock election, and the Republican incumbent wound up with 393 electoral votes and 55 percent of the total votes cast.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Youngsters incarcerated at the Manson Youth Institution in Cheshire, Conn., cast ballots in a mock election yesterday: The election, which Kerry won 93 to 40, wrapped up an 11-week educational program on the political process that organizers hope will encourage the men to vote when they leave prison. The program taught about the history of the political parties, how to register to vote, and their rights under state voting laws. Inmates also analyzed the issues, debating about the economy, abortion rights, and the war in Iraq. Kerry scored 70% of the juvenile-offender "vote" (because they're behind bars, and some are...

Bush wins mock election   Rachel Parsons Staff Writer Volume 97 Number 41 Tuesday, October 12, 2004 President George Bush won by almost 400 votes when University of Tennessee students took to the online polls Oct. 7 and 8 in the Student Government Association-sponsored mock elections. The Bush/Cheney ticket received 1,015 votes to the Kerry/Edwards ticket receiving 643 votes. Students had the opportunity to vote for all candidates that will appear on the Tennessee ballot in the November elections. A total of 1,721 students - 6.6 percent of the student body - voted in the election. SGA had hoped...

President George Bush won by almost 400 votes when University of Tennessee students took to the online polls Oct. 7 and 8 in the Student Government Association-sponsored mock elections. The Bush/Cheney ticket received 1,015 votes to the Kerry/Edwards ticket receiving 643 votes. Students had the opportunity to vote for all candidates that will appear on the Tennessee ballot in the November elections. A total of 1,721 students - 6.6 percent of the student body - voted in the election. SGA had hoped that 8,000 students would cast votes, Kristi Bogle, SGA government affairs assistant director, said last week.

This is an excellent online Presidential Election Atlas site that I'm sure many Freepers already know about. Anyway, the guy who runs the site has created a very well done mock election where you can register and vote. Here's the site for those who'd like to cast a vote: http://www.uselectionatlas.org/ Also, there is a prediction page where you can forecast the presidential election state by state. Most interesting is the prediction home page which displays the median average of all the predictions. I confess I check it out several times a day. Really neat stuff.