Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Should We Listen to the Children?

An article in MSNBC claims that since 1940, students voters have accuraretly picked all but two Presidents correctly. Kids across America have got the 2008 Presidential Election all figured out. Although to young to vote, in a poll of a million students, kids predict Democratic nominee Barack Obama sailing to victory with 57% of the vote, while Republican nominee John McCain recieved 39%. This could perhaps be easy to dismiss, but, the kids have led an uncanny knack to be very accurate, only being wrong twice since 1940, once in 1948, when the kids picked Thomas Dewey over Harry Truman, and in 1960, when they choose Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy. Do these kids have the answer? Should we listen to the children ,after all? And, most importantly, could they be correct again?

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