Posted on 10/29/2004 11:29:16 PM PDT by ambrose
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 a national mock election held by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. According to the combined results of schools across the nation, Bush won with 50.89 percent of the vote, while Kerry had 45.61 percent. Those results are almost identical to Friday’s Gallup poll.
Spires said he was not surprised by the results, but found it interesting that the national mock election results almost matched the poll.
“The overall feeling I got going into this was that Bush would carry the school,” he said. “Some students had voiced their opinions in favor of Bush, but I was surprised the percentage was that different.”
John Taylor, 13, said he was happy with the results and was not surprised that Bush won by such a large margin.
“I voted for the person that won, anyway,” he said.
John added that when he reaches the voting age, he will be sure to vote in the real election.
“One vote makes a difference,” he said.
But 14-year-old Katherine Kirby said she was surprised at Bush’s win, although she voted for Bush herself.
“I heard some kids say they would vote for Kerry, and some for (Ralph) Nader,” she said. “But Bush won.”
Katherine said she thinks the real election will be a lot closer, but hopes Bush wins that one, too.
“I learned that my vote counts, so people need to sign up and vote,” she said.
The mock election was part of a large unit on elections and government conducted by Drakes Creek’s social studies department. For weeks, students have been watching the presidential debates, learning about the electoral process and studying other aspects of politics.
“It was a very good experience,” Spires said. “The kids were excited this morning as the results were released. It was a good experience for me and for the students.”
Convenience store gets in on faux-voting action; Kerry landslides
With Tuesday nearing and schools conducting mock elections, third-shift employees at a Jr. Food Store decided to hold one of their own.
Sally Aleksiejczyk, who works from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. at the Jr. Foods on Center Street and 14th Avenue, said she and co-worker Suzanne Fogge held an impromptu mock election Wednesday night. Among the voters, which were mostly college students, Democrat Kerry won with 72 votes, while President Bush got 43. Ralph Nader got five voters’ support, and 10 said they were undecided.
“We thought it would be cool because people were doing mock elections in schools,” Aleksiejczyk said. “We did it because we wanted to see who college students would vote for.”
In talking about politics with the college students who come in late at night, Aleksiejczyk said she’d heard more favorable comments about Kerry than about Bush.
“I’d say people at Western would vote more for Kerry than Bush about anything,” she said.
good news. lol.
Drakes Creek’s mock election was part of a national mock election held by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. According to the combined results of schools across the nation, Bush won with 50.89 percent of the vote, while Kerry had 45.61 percent.
He also won a mock election at my son's school, Grassland Middle School in Franklin, TN.
This seals it. It's a lock!!!!
Wow, I had been waiting for those numbers to come in! Now I feel better! ;-)
My nephew said there was a rumor that Kerry favored Saturday schooling and only 4 kids voted for him in the class.
With the exception of the college, we raise 'em right here...lol.
I've seen the students that go to that JR Food store, not exactly your poster-boy all American every-mother's-dream kids...
Well, I'd feel a whole lot better if Bush had won the Nicolodeon Online Poll instead of Kerry.
Meaningless coincidence, or confirmation of all the recent 51 to 46 polls we have been seeing?
the nick poll was subject to DU voting multiple times. Online polls are worthless.
Don't worry about the Nickelodeon poll. It's the Scholastic magazine poll that has historic significance, and Bush won that one.
Students Around the Country Select George W. Bush as President in the 2004 Scholastic Election Poll
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041020/nyw076_1.html?printer=1
Looks like it. I wasn't sure if Weekly Reader was published by Scholastic, but I looked at articles about both polls and didn't see the names cross referenced, so it looks like 2 different, long standing, polls.
Online polls are fun, but it is just too easy to manipulate them. The Nickelodeon poll is next to meaningless.
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