Posted on 10/14/2008 4:56:39 PM PDT by GraniteStateConservative
This is the silliest of polls. But the Hillary actually could be significant.
Don’t the kids in this poll always vote for the Democrat, given he is always being pimped by the magazine and the teachers?
Should read, “the Hillary thing”
This is not like a previous election. Predominently black schools that never participated before did so this time according to a report locally.
How many union teachers threw out the McCain votes? It is different today then when most of us did this poll.
This is not good, because they’ve always been an indicator on who really wins. Then again, Obama does strike a cord with young people.
And thanks to ACORN, these kids will also be able to vote for real on November 4th!
“kids voted by paper ballot or online”
Whoah, that “online” part is new from the last time isn’t it?
I smell a rat.
No. Bush beat Kerry and Gore here, for example.
I smell a rat.
They know this poll will be heavily reported now as a grand predictor.
And now it is “on line” voting too?
Something is fishy.
Oh this is the first time they did the poll online as well?
Who cares, really. It’s not a real poll. There are bigger fish to fry than worrying about this bullstuff.
I gave it creedence before, because the kids generally reflect what they are hearing at home.
But if it is online polling too?
Throw it out.
Did this poll have online voting in 2004 or 2000?
This is outstanding news for McCain. The theory is that the kids reflect what the parents are saying. However, there is an innocent love affair going on with youngsters and Obama this year. In light of that it is amazing that McCain is leading in CO and a couple other states. He’s close enough in the other states except MI that the adults are probably leaning McCain.
If the ratio of homeschooled to public and private school students is similar in other states then the Scholastic News "voting" results in states where the race is within 2% could easily move if you included the homeschooled kids. And guess which way many of them are likely to vote!
O 57% to M 39% is outstanding news for McCain?
The fact that the vote was taken online - rather than in class - tells you that the vote could have been flooded by people other than students.
Back when it meant anything at all, it was taken with paper ballot IN THE CLASSROOM, and the teacher would duly record the results so the children could verify the results...
Looks like they did then too.
http://www.e-thepeople.org/article/36321/view?viewtype
But now days, if it is online, I wouldnt trust it at all.
It would be interesting to see if more online votes were counted now then then.
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