Okay, maybe not a literal time traveler, but we’ve seen a glimpse of the future. The kids have voted in the Scholastic mock 2016 election — kids who will be able to vote FOR REAL in the decade to come — and the results are an epic landslide for Hillary Clinton:
The Democratic former first lady and U.S. senator garnered 52% to Republican real estate developer Donald Trump’s 35%. In all, Clinton, who is surging in the grown-up polls, carried enough states to win an eye-popping 436 electoral votes to Trump's 99...
Among schoolchildren, Clinton carried nearly every battleground state: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Ohio. She also carried Alaska, Idaho, Texas and Utah, all traditionally red states.
Read the full story here: www.usatoday.com/…
But what about my headline on this diary? Well, I think we all know that “the kids” are getting more and more progressive as time passes. Each year, millions of young folks are turning 18 and becoming eligible to vote. They will hopefully keep pushing the Democratic Party to the left, and that will only benefit all Americans in the decades to come. (In addition, the old and angry and white Republicans are only getting OLDER each year.)
And, with any luck, the map in 2028 will look something like the one above thanks to the kids!
In the meantime, let’s GOTV and close the deal for Hillary Clinton and the down ballot Democrats who NEED OUR VOTE this November!