The Weekly Reader’s kids poll has accurately predicted the presidential winner in 12 of the last 13 races.
This year’s results?
Obama ~ 54.7%
McCain ~ 42.9%
If the kids are right, this is what the electoral map will look like:
Somehow, McCain won among 10th graders -but Obama’s support in EVERY other grade level created a tsunami which the Republican candidate could not overcome. Obama won Virginia in the kid’s poll.
So, it seems that our public school kids want change – or they want to be left with change – or something like that.
Can McCain rise above the sentiments of our nation’s children? can he overcome the predictive power of the Weekly Reader poll?
Maybe. After all, the kid’s poll was taken over a period of weeks – while Obama was way ahead in most polls of adults too. The margin has narrowed. And, we have a few more days to go. I volunteered at McCain / Palin HQ in my area today, and let me tell you, the place was humming. We got a strong reception going door-to-door too. More of that and we will could make up another couple of points over the next two days.
And, kids have their own reasoning processes. An acquaintance of mine recently related that his son “voted” for Obama. Why? – “because he has hair like mine,” the young citizen explained. The boy has dark hair (as does his Republican father) while other family member’s have blond hair. And then, there’s the fact that the teacher’s unions have been strongly pushing for Obama — like when the VEA told teacher’s to “wear blue” for Obama because some older students might not be registered to vote.
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Weekly Reader is a subsidiary of Reader’s Digest and the kid’s poll was conducted in conjunction with Zogby. It was a survey of over 125,000 children, grades K-12.
