October 20, 2008

President Obama Succeeds President Kerry

Posted by Adam Graham in : Presidential Race 2008

Barack Obama won the Kids Pick the President election by Nickelodeon:

In this election year’s Kids Pick the President “Kids’ Vote”, Senator Obama received 51% of the vote (1,167,087), and Senator McCain received 49% (1,129,945).

That Obama only beat McCain in a poll of Nickelodeon Kids by a mere 2% is telling. John Kerry won the Kids Pick the President vote in 2004 by a 14 point margin. True, the turnout in ‘04 was far less (about 20% of this year’s) but Obama’s 2-point margin about young people indicates a soft bottom with the Obama campaign.

Nick has been increasingly far left over the years. While in 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000, Nick kids successfully picked the winner, 2004 was a jump the shark moment for the kids poll.

Given Obama’s charisma, the pro-Obama environment of the media, Nick’s PC bias, and the impressionability of young minds, Obama ought to have won this 60-40% at least. 

If kids are voting 51-49% for Obama, I wouldn’t rest easy if I were in Camp Obama.

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2 Comments

  1. Comment by Steltek

    You remember all those movies/shows from the 90s where aliens/witches/evil forces would brainwash the whole town, and only a rag-tag band of kids would see through it and fight the mind control? That’s what’s going on with that 49% percent. Kids calling each other and saying “Everybody’s hypnotized — Mom, Dad, Stacy, Uncle Jack, Mr. Henderson, EVERYONE! We’ve got to get everyone together at the youth center and figure out a way to stop these creeps! Spread the word to all the kids in town, we’re gonna save Angel Grove!”

  2. Comment by stacey

    more telling is this: my third grade daughter had one of these polls in her class. My daughter picked Obama and when she told my wife, my wife proceeded to ask her why she voted for the one that thinks he is the Messiah, my little girl broke down crying saying, “I voted for the wrong one!”. So with that in my mind, and coupled with the idiots on the street that Howard Stern questioned who didn’t even realize that Palin is not Obama’s running mate, polls mean even less.

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