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- ohnoerino, on 10/14/2008, -19/+127Hooray for the youth of today and their good sense.
- JakeKreber, on 10/14/2008, -2/+55"Since 1940, the results of the student vote in the Scholastic Election Poll have mirrored the outcome of the general election, except twice."
go kids! :D - gsgdiggs, on 10/14/2008, -4/+47San Diego is turning from Red to Blue...one campus has already signed up 2,000 new voters with a goal of another 2,000 to go. I think it is great that young people are getting involved this is an important election!
- wild, on 10/14/2008, -3/+34They have been correct for 40 years running. That is crazy.
- ironeus, on 10/14/2008, -1/+31I understand the URL keeps going down to 404 status. Cnn pulled their info from here: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3 ...
- trotskyist, on 10/15/2008, -2/+29I am as shocked as I was when Clay Aiken admitted he was gay.
- Lockhart, on 10/15/2008, -0/+24And the other 4% went to Harry Potter!
- CraigKostelecky, on 10/14/2008, -3/+21Now we just need to get the real voters to do the same next month.
- BeShirtHappy, on 10/14/2008, -4/+19I dugg this just for the fact that it came from "Scholastic"... anything to do with Scholastic is da bomb! As for kids voting for Obama - I'm not too surprised since I think he would be more of a draw to our youth than McCain.
- xuanyan, on 10/15/2008, -0/+132000 and 2004?
- JakeKreber, on 10/14/2008, -2/+13Don't feed the trolls sir.
- diggduggjoe, on 10/15/2008, -3/+13No, it is just they usually go with what there parents talk about. My daughter is all Bob Barr. Though, I like to think she is libertarian at heart, but at her age she is just mimicking her family.
- chancesarent, on 10/15/2008, -0/+10I remember voting for George Sr in gradeschool for this poll because someone in our class started a rumor that Dukakis was going to nuke the world his first day in office. Nobody wanting to be nuked, HW won by a landslide in Mrs. Linhart's 4th grade class that day.
- kylafornia26, on 10/15/2008, -4/+14This video says it all. http://www.sharenow.com/base/content/42961/
"We just need to vote"
- Barack Obama - Gabberwok, on 10/15/2008, -1/+11Hm, I remember "Homer Simpson" always won as a write-in candidate at my school...
- nedzeve, on 10/15/2008, -0/+9Its K-12. I don't consider people with less than high school "the best educated sector". It's more a reflection of what these kids are getting from their families.
- rdmorley, on 10/15/2008, -0/+9Really? Front page?
- 80hd, on 10/15/2008, -5/+14Already sent in my absentee ballot from Purdue U.
Boilerup Obama! - OddMoniker, on 10/15/2008, -0/+8But you can't, and you won't.
Doesn't that just piss you off? - lolwutpear, on 10/15/2008, -2/+10You've come to the right website.
- smugmotha, on 10/14/2008, -4/+12Now that's the surprise of the century!
- granolajoe, on 10/14/2008, -5/+12Hey *****, did you look at the results? My point was that the results were skewed to the right for Colorado. Thanks for underlining my point, and making yourself look like a jackass. By the way, I live in Denver, and I visit Boulder and Golden often. I know the demographics just fine, asshat.
Colorado:
McCain 61%
Obama 36%
Other 3% - inactive, on 10/15/2008, -3/+102 misses in the history of the poll, with JFK beating Nixon as one of those misses. That is some pretty impressive meaningless information!
- knightblade2oo4, on 10/15/2008, -1/+8I live in a very conservative town in central washington (read: wenatchee, wa) and work as graphic artist/photographer and columnist for our high school paper, we polled 500 students of the 2100-person student body and it was 254 for Obama, 105 for McCain, 89 Undecideds and 62 Independents. I found that really interesting coming from a town where i've seen literally 3 Obama signs in yards around town (and I've been looking).
- Leviathan433, on 10/15/2008, -2/+9Ahhh - falling back on the myth of the liberal media. You know, reality has a liberal bias too.
- Dabaum, on 10/15/2008, -0/+7Here at the University of Arizona we reached the goal of registering 5000 new voters.
- wedges, on 10/15/2008, -0/+7maybe i'm going out on a limb here, but i think this particular age group is primarily going to vote the way their parents do. when i was that age (10-12) i didn't know anything about politics, and i supported george HW bush because my mom did. i certainly didn't know why. as i got older i figured out i had different values from my parents and made up my own mind.
- below413, on 10/15/2008, -1/+7Wait wait wait... Clay Aiken is gay!?
- jc7012, on 10/15/2008, -0/+6I tied for third with the indian kid and "school sucks"
- inactive, on 10/15/2008, -0/+6Now lets run the same election with just the elderly, i bet they all vote mccain
- Ramenhood, on 10/15/2008, -1/+7EVERY kid under 12 just votes for who they're parents are.
- aceisstupid, on 10/15/2008, -6/+11***** off. I'm 19 and have had to have a job since I was 15 so that I could SUPPORT MYSELF.
Umbrella statements like yours serve no purpose other than to create further divide in America. - ngmcs8203, on 10/15/2008, -0/+5I went to SDSU and am voting Obama. Does that delight you a well?
- inactive, on 10/15/2008, -0/+5Yeah because at 13 they really start to care....
- temujin2012, on 10/15/2008, -0/+5A bunch of my buddies going to SDSU are voting Obama, much to my delight!
- nedzeve, on 10/15/2008, -0/+5Since 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.
- inactive, on 10/15/2008, -2/+7Between Obama, McCain, and Potter, guess who's the only one who didn't vote for FISA, and guess who's the only one who didn't vote for the Patriot Act?
Potter/Dumbledore '08 - BoneStamp, on 10/14/2008, -9/+14Show your support for Bush, vote for McCain so he can champion the remaining Bush bills.
- kushin, on 10/15/2008, -2/+7The 39% who voted for McSame are either from a Republican household or academically challenged. I would probably go with the first one.
- cptshamrock, on 10/15/2008, -0/+5Gotta love "Informed Voters"
- temujin2012, on 10/15/2008, -2/+6Wrong.
The youth have to clean up whatever mess whichever candidate leaves behind.
Both times they were hopeful that they wouldn't have a huge mess to clean up.
After 8 years, we do have a huge mess to clean up. - elizabethb221, on 10/15/2008, -0/+4If only! Except [SPOILER] Dumbledore's dead, so maybe someone else like Arthur Weasley.
Or Hermione! - shauncorleone, on 10/15/2008, -1/+5So move to a Socialist country. Of course, with actually strong immigration policies, you probably wouldn't be welcomed with open arms.
- inactive, on 12/07/2008, -3/+7Get 'em Joe. I went to prison in Colorado, and I can tell you that the state is full of republicans. They just seem to blend in with the Dems because they are all hippie republicans. Smoking weed doesn't make you a democrat or liberal, just an enlightened Republican.
- financedude2, on 10/15/2008, -1/+5Damn all those teachers with their knowledge and science and logic
- sleff, on 10/15/2008, -3/+7Study says most corporations pay no U.S. income taxes
http://digg.com/politics/Study_says_most_corporati ...
reuters.com — Most U.S. and foreign corporations doing business in the United States avoid paying any federal income taxes, despite trillions of dollars worth of sales, a government study released on Tuesday said.
called the report "a shocking indictment of the current tax system." Levin said it made clear that "too many corporations are using tax trickery to send their profits overseas and avoid paying their fair share in the United States."
The study showed about 28 percent of large foreign corporations, those with more than $250 million in assets, doing business in the United States paid no federal income taxes in 2005 despite $372 billion in gross receipts, the senators said. About 25 percent of the largest U.S. companies paid no federal income taxes in 2005 despite $1.1 trillion in gross sales that year, they said."
Are these the "value-adding entities" you are talking about? The holiest of ever enlightened private sector companies that steal from the American People every chance they get? You really have something stuck up your ass.
Are you blind?
Good lord... - ridelesteambolt, on 10/15/2008, -2/+5"Some even voted for themselves"
that's right, kids. - gospe1337, on 10/15/2008, -2/+5I'm young. I support Obama. I still fail to see the relevance of this news.
- barfooz, on 10/15/2008, -1/+4*cringe*
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