While reading the comments under President Obama's 62.4% chance of victory reported at Intrade to better understand the perspective of the betting markets on our presidential election, I came across this citation of the Scholastic Student Voter poll, Students Pick Obama, by Jennifer Marino Walters.
The kids have spoken! The winner of the Scholastic Student Vote is President Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, with 51 percent of the vote. The Republican nominee, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, received 45 percent of the vote, while 4 percent of kids voted for other people.
The Scholastic Student Vote invited young people under the legal voting age of 18 to cast their vote for President in a mock election. They could vote online at www.scholastic.com/vote or by mailing in paper ballots found in Scholastic classroom magazines. Almost a quarter million (250,000) students voted from August 15 until the online poll closed on October 10.
A majority of kids in four of five key swing states—Colorado, Florida, Nevada, and Ohio—chose Obama. A swing state is a state where neither candidate has a strong majority in the polls. Romney won Virginia, the other key swing state, by a small margin. In a close race like this one, the voting outcomes in these states can ultimately determine who wins the general election.
Please check out their site which has interactive maps, pie graphs, state by state charts, and a data base of a quarter of a million student voters.
Scholastic Student Voter Website - Election Section
And, as one better is arguing at Intrade, since its inception in 1940, the student voters at Scholastic have correctly chosen the President eventually election in all but two cases, in 1948 when they chose Dewey, and 1960 when they chose Nixon.
90% of student polled said that they hope to be president one day.
Once again, young people give us hope for a better future.
3:25 PM PT: Perhaps, also you might allow me to promote one of my post from earlier today, which exposes more of Mitt Romney's hypocrisy, and is hovering just below the rec list threshold.
Romney Made $15.3 Million Profit From Auto Rescue While Criticizing Those Receiving Government Aid