Bush wins in a landslide...

Interesting. The Nickelodeon poll (which has never been wrong in predicting a Presidential election) has Kerry in a landslide.

 

Bush won the Scholastic poll, which I also thought had never been wrong (unless it was wrong in 2000).

 

We had Channel 1 in my high school, of course I went to a Catholic High School, and Channel 1 was in all the high schools within the Diocese (so that would be about 4 to 5 thousand kids). The only reason we had it is that they paid for TVs in the classroom, provided we left the TV on during Homeroom so we could watch all their ads. Needless to say, I am putting no stock into this poll. And its not just because Bush won, if they had Kerry by the same margin I would say its still a crap poll.

 

I have a better reason.

Kids can't legally vote.

I wonder if superdave will complain this was not posted in the Polls thread.

 

We had a mock election at my school in 1968. I was in first grade and I got to vote.














I voted for Richard Nixon because that's who my parents were voting for. In later years (when I was 10 or 11 or so) I recall being deeply, deeply ashamed. Now, of course, I say look, you were only 6 years old and had no way of knowing any better. However, my 11yo self didn't give me that much of a break.


Anyway, polling kids is silly but still vaguely interesting, assuming the kids are older than 6.

 

I wonder who's winning the latest poll among dead voters.

 

I once worked in a costume shop for the month of October and the owner claimed to be able to tell who would win the election by which candidate sold the highest number of masks.

 

Exactly the same at my high school. And I too went to a Catholic school. I didn't even realize Channel 1 was still around.

 

Reagan won in my 4th grade class back in 1980! Let me think, I must have been at least 16 by then.
I voted for him.

 

You'll have to ask 1953 4-2-4.
He is the one with all the crack head / dead voter numbers.

 

In 1992, my junior high school's poll had Perot winning 60% of the vote, Clinton and George H.W. Bush were both around 20%. Take that FWIW.

 

We all know the only true lock-solid Presidential election predictor is how the Redskins do in their last game before the election. Come on Packers!

 

Think of the children!

As the great Whitney Houston once said, "The children are the future!"

She is also quoted as saying, "Bobby, where's my crack pipe!"
So, make of it what you will.

 

You've hit upon my really secret shame.

I voted for Reagan not once, but twice.

1980 & 1984.





God save me.

 

I voted for W in 2000. (I was 22.) I think that one won't get better with time.

 

Wow. You poor thing. You're gonna have to live with that for the rest of your life.
















(the truth is that there was no way to know in 2000 what a total disaster W would be.)

 

ummm it really shouldnt have been a mystery to anyone - i warned everyone around me that he would flush this country down the toilet - what had he ever done to make you think he was even remotely competent?

 

I felt the same way, however when it came down to it and I had to vote for Gore... In hindsight, that kind of made me want to hurl.

 

I was in 3rd grade in 1980 and we had our mock election. I think there was me and one other kid who voted for Carter - everyone else voted for Reagan.

 

Your 3rd grade class was pretty well tuned in.

How did your 7th grade class do with Mondale/Reagan?

 

I was a pretty loyal Republican in 2000. I didn't like Bush, due to his butchering of the world leaders quiz and the dirty tricks campaign against McCain. I most likely would've voted for Bradley had he been the nominee. Al Gore just really bugged me. I had planned to write in "None of the Above" for the presidential race, but I somehow convinced myself that W was smart enough to realize he was an idiot and listen to his advsors. D'oh, d'oh, d'oh.

 

There was plenty of warning: his complete ignorance of world affairs, the fact that he attracted from the get-go the kind of morons that still think that Iraq had WMD and that Saddam supported Al Qaeda.

That fact alone made me feel sorry for intelligent Republicans, b/c I figured Bush would be the downfall of their party, and everybody deserves a voice in politics. In their party loyalty, many were/are oblivious to his stupidity. I can't say I blame them, b/c Dems would do the exact same thing (be blindly loyal to a president from their party).

If Bush wins, I don't see things getting better for the Republican Party. In fact, the press has already sensed blood and will continue to hound the president and his staff, party leadership in the House and Senate will NOT be willing to sign off on just about anything he says, the shizit's gonna hit the fan in Iraq (and not just on the ground, but in the investigations about the lead up to the war).

 

I think I was still eating paste at 11. I've always been a supporter of recreational drug use.