48% of these kids frighten me.
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Nah, it's just kids parroting their parents views. I did the same thing as a child, and I'm about as far left as you can get as an adult.
Well in that case, 48% still frightens me.
Don't worry. It all comes down to the hands of like 100k voters in a few random swing states.
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The thing about this is, I was a kid in 1996 when Bill Clinton ran against Bob Dole.
Our whole elementary school had a big educational event about the election. Bob Dole and Bill Clinton both sent personalized videos to our schools, explaining what they stood for, and we had a mock election.
My grade overwhelmingly went for Bill Clinton. (I want to say, he had a very easy-to-understand platform regarding the importance of education, and the impact it would have on us, the future electorate. And Bob Dole was... Bob Dole.)
Did I mention I grew up in a very Roman Catholic, very hardcore Republican house? That I grew up in Oklahoma, a red state?
I wasn't the only kid standing up to my parents over the results!
I guess what I'm saying is, if the children are aware, and still choosing Trump, we need to know why. Kids don't have a problem voting against their parents, as long as they understand the issues. And if they don't understand the role they play in their country, we should be extending further education.
I really think that we are failing our children. Our educational system is disgraceful.
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But was that enough to win the Nickelodeon's Kids Electoral College?
It wouldn't be an electoral college in this case. It would be an electoral... middle school?
Take your upvote and leave.
They're still looking into it. There is currently some debate about some 'hanging Cheetos' and they're going to ask Mom and Dad to clarify some wording.
Helga Pataki* is demanding they recount Florida
*No I cannot make a more current Nickelodeon reference
That 48% makes me so fucking sad...
It’s mostly kids mimicking their parents feelings. Which is not the MOST sad. But still not great.
I think this is much sadder than just the parents thinking like this. Kids should get to be kids and start their lives unencumbered by their parents' hatred and bitterness.
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Had some people in a duel enrollment (collage level) class tell me last Friday that they'd vote for trump because "he's an asshole but I like his policies"
Don't worry, at the collage level they're just bringing a bunch of pictures together
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"What policies?"
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48% to Trump is embarrassing. This country is failing our children.
Unfortunately kids parrot the hate and political leanings of their parents until they grow older at least
Can confirm. Had a 16 year old work part time with me for a few weeks over the summer. Pretty cool kid, but yeah... Trump came up a couple times and both times he just repeated the bullshit that he'd heard from his parents. Sad shit.
Really shows where the problem lies. Indoctrination. Results not much different than the national poll.
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When Harris wins she needs to weaponize the military against the children who chose Trump. It's only fair.
Imagine the shitstorm if she would've said that instead of Trump.
Imagine the shit storm of she wasn't completely on-the-ball at every second of the campaign.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_Pick_the_President
"Since 1988, Kids Pick the President has accurately predicted the winner of each election with the exceptions of the 2004 and 2016 presidential elections."
Yeah, those two are not good ones to get wrong.
If it was 2000 and 2016 I'd be more concerned
Maybe a little, but not much
In 2016 the kids favored Clinton by 17 points (36% Trump to 53% Clinton)
Those kids should have voted 3rd party instead of picking one of those two fascists.
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They includes 3rd parties in 2016, but did not in 2020 and 2024, hence the different margins. And the 3rd party they included was of the Republican spoiler type rather than the Democratic spoiler type
They had way higher third party votes in their poll than actually occured - and the third party votes in 2016 were higher than usual (helping trump narrowly win in 2016)
Well, that's scary.
Watch this be correct and nickelodeon replaces Nate Silver as the new polling god.
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So, now we know why the conservatives are so hell-bent on defunding the education system In America…
It’s for votes!
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What kind of f-ed up kid votes for Trump?
The kind whose parents watch media that demonizes the Democrats.
This is 90% just a proxy for how their parents will vote.
Its only a very small portion of kids that age who are going to have substantially different views than their parents (not that they don't exist!)
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48% of kids are dumb
100% of kids are dumb. So far.
While I tend to agree, the only political news I got before I was 18 came from whatever news my parents had on the TV after dinner.
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So close? Sad.
Remember it's beneficial for the media when it's 50/50. Either by only promoting those stories or by skewing the numbers
Thanks to the electoral elementary, Trump still wins another term in the principals office.
Well, at least we're consistently awful
Trump is still kind of a meme candidate, so I think a lot of it might be that. Kamala is obviously better to someone that knows but she's also "boring"
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