Posted on 10/29/2004 12:09:02 PM PDT by RightWingNY
Weekly Reader kids select Bush in poll
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.
Since 1956, Weekly Reader students in grades 1-12 have correctly picked the president, making the Weekly Reader poll one of the most accurate predictors of presidential outcomes in history.
President Bush was a strong winner in the student poll; the only state Senator Kerry won was Maryland. Senator Kerry was also in a statistical dead heat with President Bush in New York, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C. and Vermont. President Bush won most grades, although Senator Kerry did win among tenth-graders.
This year students caught election fever, with an increase of more than 20% in the number of students participating in the Weekly Reader poll than in any prior year. While there were participants from grades K through 12, third- and fourth-graders were the most enthusiastic voters. More than 57,000 students from each of those two grades voted.
---The kids who watch MTV picked Kerry; the kids who READ picked Bush.
Go figure.
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Go figure.
Now we have dueling predictions....
And 7-11 too.
I wanna start a PACKERS VS. REDSKINS live thread now. After all, that'll be the deciding factor. :)
Dow is up $1.98 today. That ought to seal it.
Acuually, I believe it started back up when Bush's lead held this week.
The superstitious type indicators are mixed this year...
I've always trusted the Weekly Reader....it's much more dependable than the DOW :)
Wonder if the Packers will thrown the game? Hey Kerry wanna see Lambert Field? Hahahahahahahahhahhaha.
Since we're pinning things on mumbo-jumbo, keep in mind the Bush is ALSO winning in the Halloween Mask poll (55%-45%) and he wins with the BoSox since an AL victory usually helps Republicans and no candidate has ever won in the year when his home team won.
Sheesh, for every "poll" that looks bad for one guy, there's another that looks good for ours and vice versa. Each day seems to be like a week . . . I can't wait for this freaking thing to be done with. Enough already!
If DOW is the stock market then 75% of money managers are betting on a Bush victory.
The Dow just ticked up to 10,030 which is above the 10,029 it had to get to. If it stays above 10,029 then the Dow predictor predicts Bush as well. Don't know what you mean by Dow in this thread?
If you follow the stock market, most times it looks backwards and tries to make sense of past trends, based on current data, to predict the future. The phrase "you put your money where your mouth is" better reflects what money managers think. So in retrospect, I "get" the logic of the post, which say's children pick Bush so that's more logical than the stock market closing level. Very intellectual, clever, and funny.
Ping. Can you send this to Carmie? I don't know how.
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