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Maine School Children Pick Trump in Mock Election
Associated Press via Boston.com ^ | AP

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: gop; maine; mock; trump
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1 posted on 10/27/2016 10:09:10 AM PDT by tellw
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To: tellw

“As Maine goes, so goes the nation”?................


2 posted on 10/27/2016 10:11:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (WhereÂ’s that VIDEO the Anonymous group promised us????????????)
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To: tellw
TownHall.com reports it was pretty close: 42% for Trump, 40% Clinton.
3 posted on 10/27/2016 10:12:01 AM PDT by tellw
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To: tellw

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3485601/posts


4 posted on 10/27/2016 10:12:05 AM PDT by Daralundy
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To: tellw

AP didn’t censor this? Something’s up...


5 posted on 10/27/2016 10:12:28 AM PDT by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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To: tellw

Gary Johnson took 10%. Jill Stein 5%.


6 posted on 10/27/2016 10:16:39 AM PDT by tellw
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To: tellw

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.


7 posted on 10/27/2016 10:23:52 AM PDT by LostPassword
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To: tellw

If this had been an actual election, thousands of Massachusetts students would have been bussed from school to school to vote for Hillary.


8 posted on 10/27/2016 10:24:16 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (" T'was the witch of November come stealin' " And who could the stealing Witch of November be? Hmm?)
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To: tellw

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.


9 posted on 10/27/2016 10:25:18 AM PDT by CapitalistCrusader
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To: tellw

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...


10 posted on 10/27/2016 10:40:26 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: tellw

East Alton, Illinois 3rd graders (my daughter is one of them), chose Trump, too..


11 posted on 10/27/2016 10:44:17 AM PDT by cardinal4 ("Sat stonefaced while the building burned..")
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Do we have any internals on the potty time issue ?


12 posted on 10/27/2016 10:56:58 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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LOL, no. But when I asked her why she said Trump, she said, “mommy said Hillary Clinton is a liar..”


13 posted on 10/27/2016 11:00:39 AM PDT by cardinal4 ("Sat stonefaced while the building burned..")
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To: tellw

Might be promising for the general election - a few more that Trump needs to get to 270.....


14 posted on 10/27/2016 11:11:09 AM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: VanDeKoik
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.

A lot of us only voted for that bastard because Reagan supported him.

15 posted on 10/27/2016 11:23:20 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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“A lot of us only voted for that bastard because Reagan supported him.”

Same here.


16 posted on 10/27/2016 11:27:16 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: Red Badger

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*


17 posted on 10/27/2016 11:28:53 AM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: VanDeKoik

We had to make campaign posters in 7th grade, mine was for Nixon/Agnew!


18 posted on 10/27/2016 12:26:48 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: VanDeKoik

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.


19 posted on 10/27/2016 12:27:44 PM PDT by Sam Clements
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To: tellw

Well, we now know what parents of school age children think up there.


20 posted on 10/27/2016 2:39:27 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (12 days: Until Presdient Pre-elect becomes President Elect Donald J. Trump. Help is on the way!)
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