Posted on 10/27/2016 10:09:10 AM PDT by tellw
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine’s school children have spoken, and they have chosen Donald Trump and said no to marijuana.
Students from more than 150 Maine schools chose the Republican businessman over Democrat Hillary Clinton in a mock election.
The results were tallied Wednesday in the state capital of Augusta.
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“As Maine goes, so goes the nation”?................
AP didn’t censor this? Something’s up...
Gary Johnson took 10%. Jill Stein 5%.
I think this is a bogus poll. Do they have the internals? If they correctly adjusted it by weighting D/R/I around 45/25/30 you’d see a big win by Hillary. We don’t know what party the students would register for but I’m sure CNN could make a good guess that results in Hillary up by about 15%.
Hillary will need to ensure that school children are not polled for her re-election or that the proper measures are in place to come up with the right answer. Can’t wait to see the 2020 wikileaks with Hillary’s people discussing how to rig polls of children.
If this had been an actual election, thousands of Massachusetts students would have been bussed from school to school to vote for Hillary.
How old are these kids?
If they’re elementary school age they probably voted according what they hear at home. If they’re teenagers, who knows.
My first mock election, I voted for GHW Bush in the 4th grade.
It was 1988, and I wanted to vote for whomever Reagan was supporting. It sure wasn’t because my parents influenced me (both Dems), although I question the choice in hindsight!
I didn’t get out much...
East Alton, Illinois 3rd graders (my daughter is one of them), chose Trump, too..
Do we have any internals on the potty time issue ?
LOL, no. But when I asked her why she said Trump, she said, “mommy said Hillary Clinton is a liar..”
Might be promising for the general election - a few more that Trump needs to get to 270.....
It was 1988, and I wanted to vote for whomever Reagan was supporting.
A lot of us only voted for that bastard because Reagan supported him.
“A lot of us only voted for that bastard because Reagan supported him.”
Same here.
no, the people of Maine are just sick and tired of being let down by the government. Some of these kids still remember when Baldacci was in the reins. *SHUDDER*
We had to make campaign posters in 7th grade, mine was for Nixon/Agnew!
I moved to Orange County, Ca in the 80’s. In 1988 my 5 year old daughter came home from school and reported that their school had mock elections that day between George HW and Dukakis. She said the final count was something like 212 for Bush and 4 for Dukakis and that she voted for Bush. She said that she one question. “Why did 4 people vote for Dukakis?” In those days Orange County was solid Republican. Now, not so much. California is a guaranteed democRAT vote forever and ever as far as the eye can see. What a shame.
Well, we now know what parents of school age children think up there.
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