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Great News For Kerry Supporters

Superpower07
21-10-2004, 00:39
Source (http://cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20041020%2F1135434530.htm&sc=1401&flok=NW_5-L5)

Kids Pick Kerry to Be the Next President



NEW YORK (AP) - Kid power! Democrat John Kerry is the winner, and the rest of the country should pay attention because the vote on Nickelodeon's Web site has correctly chosen the president of the United States in the past four elections.

Nearly 400,000 children and teens voted, and the results were released Wednesday. Kerry received 57 percent of the vote; President Bush got 43 percent.

Nickelodeon has been airing information on the Nov. 2 election, plus sponsoring debates where kids could put forth their views on the environment, the war in Iraq and terrorism. Some animated shows on the cable channel also have been focusing on the election.

Linda Ellerbee, who writes and hosts ``Nick News,'' says their voting usually reflects their parents' views - but not all the time.


``Every so often you get a kid that says, `My parents are voting for X, but I'm voting for Y,''' she said. ``It's amazing, the point when kids start forming their own ideas about issues.''


Ellerbee said Nickelodeon has been traveling the country teaching about the election and the importance of being socially informed. Seven-year-old Anthony Viggiano of Baldwin, N.Y., won a contest for the best song lyrics about freedom of speech and performed it with rocker John Mellencamp.


``If we can get kids interested earlier in voting, when they can legally vote, they will,'' she said. ``They will run for office, they will be the candidates (that) people want to vote for.''


Ellerbee, who will announce the results on ``U-PICK Live'' Wednesday night, said many children wonder why they can't vote in the real election.


``Kids aren't dumb, they're just younger and shorter,'' she said. ``In fact, last election, a boy came up to me and said, `We picked George Bush to win, and he didn't really win. Al Gore won the popular vote, so we were kinda wrong.' Quite an observation.''

HAHAHAHHA
Goed
21-10-2004, 00:42
Roffle out loud :p
Incertonia
21-10-2004, 00:42
I thought this might be about Kerry's 10 point lead in the battleground states, or the increasing number of old guard Republican politicians that are openly endorsing him, but hey, I'll take what I can get. :D
Spoffin
21-10-2004, 00:42
LOL.

That's brilliant.
Superpower07
21-10-2004, 01:20
BUMPity
Kleptonis
21-10-2004, 01:24
Irreputable proof that your mind goes as you get older. :D
Isanyonehome
21-10-2004, 01:29
I thought this might be about Kerry's 10 point lead in the battleground states, or the increasing number of old guard Republican politicians that are openly endorsing him, but hey, I'll take what I can get. :D


Which old guard Republican politicians?
Catholic Germany
21-10-2004, 01:30
Yes, Kerry WILL WIN! Bush will get thrown out in '04 baby! Of course he can still be the village idiot, I do watch his speech in case he screws up, and when he does, boy its good for a laugh!
Incertonia
21-10-2004, 01:36
Which old guard Republican politicians?The latest three are Elmer Andersen, former governor of Minnesota, William Milliken, former governor of Michigan, and Marlow Cook, former Senator from Kentucky, to go along with Lincoln Chaffee, Senator from Rhode Island. Now admittedly, none of these are big names nationally, and none of them are really in swing states--Michigan, Minnesota and Rhode Island are pretty safe Dem and Kentucky's in the bag for Bush--but they are examples of the fiscally conservative, socially libertarian Republicans who think Bush is bad for their party.
Adrica
21-10-2004, 01:43
Actually, this is nontrivial. A polling system which has correctly predicted the last four elections - with a causal relationship, mind - has come down on Kerry's side. I really don't see what's so funny about it :p

Of course, with this election breaking records left and right, anything could happen.
Gymoor
21-10-2004, 02:22
Which old guard Republican politicians?

Not to mention General John Eisenhower, President Eisnehower's son and a long-time Republican who will be voting for a Democrat for the first time in his life.