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Cable television station Nickelodeon just did their reveal of the Kids Pick the President Choice and, with 2 million votes cast, Barack Obama won, 51%-49%. More about the effort:
The under 18 crowd is not old enough to vote, but quite a few of our nation’s young people are old enough to have an opinion about who should be the next Leader of the Free World. Nickelodeon’s Kids Pick the President Web site is encouraging young people to take a look at the candidates, the issues and cast their vote. The results will be revealed on Nickelodeon on Monday, October 20 at 8:00 p.m. on a special 2008 Kids Pick the President program. Presidential candidates Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain have both appeared in TV commercials to promote this upcoming program.
New York Magazine published some of the message board comments kids left at Nick.com’s site for the event:
McCain may have been tortured but there are many other soldiers who gave their life/tortured. Does that make them President material? McCain is out touch and looks like he was awaken from the dead in order to run for President. Go Obama!!!!!!!brisingir1
Oh he was tortured. So he should president! That TOTALLY is a good reason for someone to be president! SIKE!!! That’s the worst reason I’ve ever heard. Vote for who is the best for this country, not because they have gone through some torture and miserable times in their life.
gogobamai went to church the other day and they where talking about how mccain is a good choice i agree.
mccain23
Because He wants to lower Taxes, Lower Gas, and Help us I also heard that Obama Might make a new Holiday. I dont know if thats true but still Obama works ALOT harder than Mcaine, And if Obama works that hard then he should be rewarded OBama Rocks
Briardog
Barak Obama should win! Mcaine is going to lose. But even if he won it would still be bad for us because they say that he is showing signs of Altimers Desease. Altimers Desease is when you forget things. So say that Mcaine was president. So if Mcaine died than Sarah Palin would take over. We don’t want that! I mean Soccer Mom’s Day! What the heck is that.
cody456654
who is totally sick of president commercials? I AM!!!!!!!! half the stuff isnt even true!
pink12345
Obama also won the Scholastic Election Poll but by a wider margin: 57%-39% of 250,000 votes cast. How accurate has that poll been?
Since 1940, the results of the student vote have mirrored the outcome of the general election all but twice: In 1948, kids voted for Thomas E. Dewey over Harry S. Truman. In 1960, more students voted for Richard M. Nixon than for John F. Kennedy. In 2000, a majority of student voters chose George W. Bush, mirroring the Electoral College result, but not the result of the popular vote.
No articles yet for the Nick vote effort but this is probably a good place to check if you’re interested.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:19 pm October 20th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Elections, John McCain, Politics, Poll, Voting, WH2008, Youth
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I’m surprised it was that close! I wonder if they have a state by state breakdown…I think kids are a pretty good indicator of what their parents are going to do.
If you want to involve yourself with Halloween themed get out the vote efforts (for kids and many adults), here are three.
If folks haven’t carved their Halloween pumpkin yet, get people to vote by carving your pumpkins to get out the vote on Nov. 4th. A friend of mine did this in Ohio with his pumpkin, and the idea is so simple and appealing for us “get out the voters” to help “light” up our neighborhoods. Check out http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/carve-your-pumpkins-to-get-out-the-vote-on-nov-4 for free patterns, slogans, and some other links. If people want to make a party out of it, they can invite their friends for a pumpkin carving get out the vote party this weekend.
Similarly, there’s a Trick or Vote movement where people dress up in Halloween costumes to get their neighbors to vote. I love it. It’s at http://www.trickorvote.org/
Last (and not as much Halloweenie), there’s a petition to make Election Day a National Holiday to help people step up and vote at:
http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/make-election-day-a-national-holiday
You can register anonymously too if privacy is an issue. Thanks so much.
all yall are stupid i think m cain should win because obama [edited out name-calling] burned the american flag when he was in his early teens go m cain go m cain m cain m cain
Yay. They picked between two of the several choices. How is that in any way accurate?
If we’re going to teach kids about the voting system, we need to offer them the same variety of candidates who are running in a given election, not just the media’s favorites.
mc cain RULES