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President Obama Succeeds President Kerry

by idahoconservative | October 20, 2008 at 9:42 PM
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Barack Obama won the Kids Pick the President election by Nickelodeon:

In this election year's Kids Pick the President "Kids' Vote", Senator Obama received 51% of the vote (1,167,087), and Senator McCain received 49% (1,129,945).

That Obama only beat McCain in a poll of Nickelodeon Kids by a mere 2% is telling. John Kerry won the Kids Pick the President vote in 2004 by a 14 point margin. True, the turnout in '04 was far less (about 20% of this year's) but Obama's 2-point margin about young people indicates a soft bottom with the Obama campaign.

Nick has been increasingly far left over the years. While in 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000, Nick kids successfully picked the winner, 2004 was a jump the shark moment for the kids poll.

Given Obama's charisma, the pro-Obama environment of the media, Nick's PC bias, and the impressionability of young minds, Obama ought to have won this 60-40% at least. 

If kids are voting 51-49% for Obama, I wouldn't rest easy if I were in Camp Obama.

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You blinded me with science!

Submitted by Terry_Mahoney on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 22:18.

Well, not really.

Yeah, this poll is in some way meaningful because adults couldn't just go log in and vote, or encourage their kids to vote several times.  Oh, yeah...

And don't think there aren't adults who didn't vote in this thing 1700 times.

I receive several emails a day to go to this website or that website to vote for one or the other of the candidates.  I have received 5 or 6 requests to go to the PBS poll to vote, so those jerks from "the other side" can't win.

My kids logged in and voted in this one, but I forbade them from multiple voting. (they wanted to) I told them it was not only pointless but unethical, even if every kid in there school was voting a bunch of times.

If you want to take hope from this, go for it.

Terry 

If We Were...

Submitted by idahoconservative on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 23:11.

That organized on a massive scale to legitimately gain tens of thousands of votes online, we wouldn't have the problems we do with infrastructure.