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Weekly Reader Calls It for Obama
The Weekly Reader's quadrennial poll of students from kindergarten to 12th grade predicts that Obama will win big time, with 55% of the vote to McCain's 43%. This survey has been surprisingly accurate in the past, getting 12 of the past 13 presidential elections right, missing only Bill Clinton's win in a 3-way race in 1992. The survey's accuracy may be due to children getting most of their political views from their parents and the children's views may more accurately reflect what their parents are really thinking than what the parents are telling the pollsters.
Interestingly- even in the local races- we used to see the inschool sample elections to almost mirror what the real elections would be....
My daughters are in a college sociology course- that last week took the day to go over the local ballots- make them familiar with them- and then did a survey vote....They said there were 34 people in the class- and 32 of them were voting Obama...