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| Teen voters re-elect Bush in landslide |
| 2004-10-21 |
| Hat tip: Instapundit. Edited for brevity. American teens have spoken, and they want George W. Bush for president. Nearly 1.4 million teens voted in the nation's largest mock election, and the Republican incumbent wound up with 393 electoral votes and 55 percent of the total votes cast. Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry received 145 electoral votes, far short of the 270 electoral votes needed to win a presidential election. Kerry received 40 percent of the total votes, while five percent of teens selected the third-party option, though no third-party presidential hopefuls managed to pick up any electoral votes. Maybe there's something to letting teens vote after all! Click link for story and state-by-state tabulation. |
| Posted by:Dar |
| #6 My daughter was involved in this. Each student received a slip of paper with information on the vote, the website address, and a single-use sign-in code. So, unless someone got a bunch of these slips, they couldn't vote more than once. As for the results: I am starting to feel a little better about this election. Not totally, as Mr. Wife and I still disagree on who should be president, but it looks like a lot of improper registrations are being thrown out, and I've started to wonder how many of the legitimate new registerees will actually betake themselves to their polling places Nov.2. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-10-21 8:31:38 PM |
| #5 I don't believe it for a second. I wish it were so. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-10-21 8:25:24 PM |
| #4 my HS Junior son started reading my National Reviews - without asking.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-21 6:42:32 PM |
| #3 My sister is a teacher, and of course toes the union line. She says that teenagers are stupid anyway. I see it as the future being in good hands. |
| Posted by: Urako 2004-10-21 6:07:21 PM |
| #2 Here's how I'm seeing this... These teens are still in H.S. and living at home. They most likely reflect the political leanings of their parents, thus how their parents will vote. A plus in my book. |
| Posted by: RN 2004-10-21 3:30:35 PM |
| #1 Wow! Illinois & Michigan! Over-confidence makes me very uncomfortable, but maybe just maybe, the insane 1/3 of Americans won't be able to fool enough people to hand this election to the worst candidate to be put forward in modern times. We shall see if the kids have it right - and the political punks are morons. I'd like to know more baout how this vote was conducted... there's quite a bit on this page, but not everything, such as how they prevented multiple votes / stuffing, etc. Nonetheless, I'm impressed. Very cool. Thx, Dar! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-10-21 3:16:26 PM |