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Results of a National Student/Parent Mock Election, in which 4.6 million students and some parents cast ballots in all 50 states, were counted last Thursday. Clinton carried 35 states and D.C., with 459 electoral votes. A similar election in 1988 gave George Bush a 59%-to-41% win over Michael Dukakis -- a mild inflation of the actual 53.4%-to-45.6% outcome. Most of the students are still too young to vote...
...presidential debate was in a shambles. Ms. Musselwhite had assigned each group of fourth-graders the task of staging a mock debate and none of us would be Ronald Reagan. Most of us wanted to be John Anderson, a few kids said they guessed they'd play Carter but absolutely everyone refused to be Bonzo. Finally the nerdy boy who always reminded our teacher to collect the homework reluctantly volunteered to play Reagan...
...were a subversive group of nine-year-olds. Our class was the only one to vote for John Anderson in the school-wide mock election--everyone else voted for Carter. In February, when we heard that the President was shot, one girl said what we were all sort of thinking: "I hope he dies and they elect a Democrat." Our teacher was horrified and spent the rest of the day telling us that the Communists in Russia were just waiting to take advantage of a leaderless America. It was the first time I heard about John F. Kennedy...
Ididn't vote for a Democrat in my first election, either. In a fourth grade mock election in 1980, I cast a ballot (a nicely colored one, however) for John Anderson, the independent candidate running against Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. Even with my feeble understanding of politics, I knew that Reagan wasn't going to be my sort of politician. And the next year, when he declared ketchup to be a vegetable in school lunches, I knew he was the wrong man for the job. For my friends who ate a balanced meal only at school, shriveled hamburgers, tater...
Student political activists engaged in a mock presidential debate sponsored by the Institute of Politics last night...