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Offline Widewing

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« on: October 25, 2004, 06:50:26 PM »
Weekly Reader kids select Bush in Presidential Poll
 
The students who read Weekly Reader’s magazines have made their preference for President known: they want to send President Bush back to the White House.

The results of this year’s Weekly Reader poll have just been announced, and the winner is President Bush. Hundreds of thousands of students participated, giving the Republican President more than 60% of the votes cast and making him a decisive choice over Democratic Senator John Kerry.

Since 1956, Weekly Reader students in grades 1-12 have correctly picked the president, making the Weekly Reader poll one of the most accurate predictors of presidential outcomes in history.

President Bush was a strong winner in the student poll; the only state Senator Kerry won was Maryland. Senator Kerry was also in a statistical dead heat with President Bush in New York, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C. and Vermont. President Bush won most grades, although Senator Kerry did win among tenth-graders.

This year students caught election fever, with an increase of more than 20% in the number of students participating in the Weekly Reader poll than in any prior year. While there were participants from grades K through 12, third- and fourth-graders were the most enthusiastic voters. More than 57,000 students from each of those two grades voted.

The presidential poll, in which teachers collected their students’ votes and forwarded them to an independent polling company to be tabulated, is part of Weekly Reader’s “Promote the Vote” program, created to teach students about the election process, the issues, the candidates, and how democracy works.

“This program teaches students that voting is a privilege and a responsibility,” said Emily Swenson, President of Weekly Reader. “Through this authentic experience, we are hoping students will become advocates and lifelong voters. And even though the election may be over in eight days, the learning will continue.”

As part of the Promote the Vote Program, Weekly Reader will also conduct an essay contest called Write Your Own Acceptance Speech. In this contest, students from grades three through 12 will be asked to write the speech they would give if they were going to be inaugurated as President in January. Contest rules will be posted at the Weekly Reader Website (http://www.weeklyreader.com) beginning November 8.

To select this year’s presidential poll winner, classrooms across the country submitted ballots, called in results via a toll-free number, or voted online. The results were tabulated by Zogby International, which has been conducting public opinion polls since 1984.
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« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2004, 07:00:32 PM »
he's been watchign too much daily show :D

looks like he's makeing fun of polls to me anyway

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Re: Re: Uh oh, Kerry is in deep bandini now!
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2004, 07:13:05 PM »
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Kids love monkeys ...



Hey! I love monkeys too!!!




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« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2004, 07:30:17 PM »
Are you sure they didn't think they were voting for Alfred E Neumann?

FWIW I voted for Nixon in 72 when I was in second grade. Must have appreciated his foreign policy inititatives :)

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« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2004, 07:52:46 PM »
I'd bet that the reason the poll is so acurate is that the kids are just echoing what they hear there parents say at home.

Yet another indication that Bush will win.

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« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2004, 08:03:03 PM »
Kids and AOLers for Bush!

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« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2004, 08:08:33 PM »
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Kids and AOLers for Bush!


yeah..... kinda cool.

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« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2004, 08:08:52 PM »
>>Kids and AOLers for Bush!

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redundant...

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« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2004, 08:10:37 PM »
Seriously guys, what do you think of my angle on it? The kids are just repeating what they hear at home.

Maybe this is the most accurate poll ever.

The kids are little parrots.

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« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2004, 08:53:19 PM »
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Seriously guys, what do you think of my angle on it? The kids are just repeating what they hear at home.

Maybe this is the most accurate poll ever.

The kids are little parrots.


Except for maybe the 10-12th grades, I think it is the kids paroting what thier parents are saying.

I say except for the 10-12th grades because when I was in the 11th I disagreed with my parental unit about politics.  Though that may have just been natural rebellion at home =)

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« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2004, 09:15:01 PM »
Bush hating blinded by his own anger hater of free speech unless its from the left's view on this post:

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Yet another republican plot to indoctrinate our youth exposed.  This is clearly the prodoct of Bush's so called "no child left behind".  This is another attempt to turn our children into fascist neocons!  

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« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2004, 12:45:28 AM »
Wow... 11 replies and no mention of the poll being rigged by republicans.  seems the democrats are already out of practice.

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« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2004, 01:18:36 AM »
:rolleyes:

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« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2004, 01:21:40 AM »
Too late Torque.

Mini-vu took his triple threat drive-by. He's done.

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« Reply #14 on: October 26, 2004, 01:35:42 AM »
You stopped by just to say that nash?  Talk about drive byes.  A rolleyes and don't bother from our friends up north in regards to U.S. politics.  That's precious.