Teens choose Bush

[Keystone Phil]

Channel One news, a news service usually viewed by students from 6th-12th grade, chose Bush for President in their two-day vote. And it wasn't even close...

[ATFFL]

Channel One news, a news service usually viewed by students from 6th-12th grade, chose Bush for President in their two-day vote. And it wasn't even close...

This bodes well for Republicans in the future.

[Andrew]

It probably says more about the demographics of the schools that show Channel One news than anything else.

[ilikeverin]

What's Channel One news?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Teens too young to vote almost always overwhelmingly chose incumbents. I remember some such poll in 1996 my class took part in that was something like Clinton 65/Dole 35

Great argument against lowering the voting age.

[ilikeverin]

Or they choose the guy with the better commercials, giving Ventura something like a 21-2-1 victory in 1998 (yes, back then class sizes were <30 =-O)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

What's Channel One news?

It's a 15 minute "news" program that just glosses over everything and then bribes schools with free TV equipment for them to show it to students. In return they get more circulation and more advertisers. Conservatives hate it too though because they claim it has a liberal slant and once played music from Marilyn Manson in the background (I remember that also claiming Marilyn Manson was satanic, idiots, I don't even listen to his crap and I know he's not). It played at my high school.

[ilikeverin]

What's Channel One news?

It's a 15 minute "news" program that just glosses over everything and then bribes schools with free TV equipment for them to show it to students. In return they get more circulation and more advertisers. Conservatives hate it too though because they claim it has a liberal slant and once played music from Marilyn Manson in the background (I remember that also claiming Marilyn Manson was satanic, idiots, I don't even listen to his crap and I know he's not). It played at my high school.

Hmm.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Or they choose the guy with the better commercials, giving Ventura something like a 21-2-1 victory in 1998 (yes, back then class sizes were <30 =-O)

that reminds me of the only time I ever supported a Republican candidate. Luckily, I was in 7th grade at the time. I supported the Republican candidate for US House because he had much snappier commercials unlike the Democratic incumbent who just talked about how he held the farm economies, etc. the Republican hit hard with harsh attack ads. Everyone at my school LOVED the guy. Now my neighborhood voted something like 62% for Bush, but this was prior to 2000 and I think the Democrat narrowly won my area that election. Despite that, he had about 80% support in my school's mock election.

[Horus]

I read somewhere that a lot of inner city schools didn't get it. In other words, I think it mostly goes to private schools.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

My school got it and it wasn't a private school (we all know what I think of private schools). But it was in a rather affluent area.

[Jake]

My school gets it and were in the boonies

[Kodratos]

It probably says more about the demographics of the schools that show Channel One news than anything else.

I believe that somewhere in the ballpark of 80% of American public schools carry it. I've attended four high schools in four different states and every one of those schools carried it. Two were in very liberal areas, one in a very conservative area, one in a moderate area. One was in a rich area, two in poor areas, one in a middle-class area.

I voted in it. My friends and I were watching it this morning and laughing our asses off. Bush won by over 15 points!

[A18]

Looks very similar to what will really happen.

Just make Delaware and Vermont blue, and make New Jersey red.

[nini2287]

I've never heard of it and I live in the Philly suburbs (where the teens are VERY pro-Kerry)

[MAS117]

I am part of the Teens for Kerry at my school. There is a ABC National Mock Teen Election next week nationwide.

[Keystone Phil]

I've never heard of it and I live in the Philly suburbs (where the teens are VERY pro-Kerry)

Depends on what parts of the Philly burbs you live in. Here in NE Philly the teens have a pretty favorable opinion of Bush and in parts of Montco the situation is the same.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Looks very similar to what will really happen.

Just make Delaware and Vermont blue, and make New Jersey red.

You actually STILL believe Bush will win Washington and New Jersey?

[bushforever]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if that electoral map actually happened come Nov. 2.

[danwxman]

My high school (in ultra-Republican Central PA) carried it.

[Keystone Phil]

As a teen in the second-largest school district in WA, I can firmly say that I have never heard of this news service, and it is not used in Seattle. Which could explain why WA is red.

As a teen from the largest co-ed Catholic high school on the East coast, I can firmly say that this news service does exist and is viewed by most in southeastern PA.

And I'm sure atleast one school in Seattle shows Channel One.

[Jake]

My history is 30 kids large.  We took a survey, about 8 are pro-bush, 5 are pro-nader, 2 are anarchists, and 15 don't care.  When pressed the 15 don't cares went Kerry 12-3.

It seems kids are very economicaly liberal and pro-life and anti-gays.  Anyone agree?

[bushforever]

I would have to agree with that.  I must also say, anti-tax, like our parent's generation.

[WMS]

What's Channel One news?

It's a 15 minute "news" program that just glosses over everything and then bribes schools with free TV equipment for them to show it to students. In return they get more circulation and more advertisers. Conservatives hate it too though because they claim it has a liberal slant and once played music from Marilyn Manson in the background (I remember that also claiming Marilyn Manson was satanic, idiots, I don't even listen to his crap and I know he's not). It played at my high school.

*adopts geezer persona*
Why, I remember when Channel One first appeared. I was a high school sophomore when my school - a mix of working class and middle class students - agreed to have it. And I was not impressed at all...

...except by a young whippersnapper named Anderson Cooper. He was the only real journalist there. He went to Burma, he went to Soviet Georgia, he went to Bosnia. And he went to these places when things were really nasty. I remember seeing him, years later, as an international reporter for ABC...I wonder what happened to him?

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

Channel One news, a news service usually viewed by students from 6th-12th grade, chose Bush for President in their two-day vote. And it wasn't even close...

This bodes well for Republicans in the future.

Nah, it just means more Democrats are sneaking out to get a smoke during homeroom when Channel One is being shown.