Scholastic's Nationwide Schoolkids Election - Clinton 52 - Trump 35

[BaldEagle1991]

Well this should be an alarming map if you're a Republican. Seeing that kids who are too young to vote and not going to see your party as a positive thing as they get older.

[Mehmentum]

Well this should be an alarming map if you're a Republican. Seeing that kids who are too young to vote and not going to see your party as a positive thing as they get older.

Seeing as how predictive these results have been of national results, I think this doesn't mean much for the future.  These kids are mostly taking their cues from their parents (which is why this is so predictive), and haven't yet had any formative political moments.

[dspNY]

The kids haven't gotten it wrong since Kennedy beat Nixon

[kyc0705]

Sell it back to France!

[Santander]

Like the male/female voter map, the red states in this map are literally the best in the nation. God bless those patriotic children.

[Kingpoleon]

Petition to change title to: "The Role Model for Kids Wins Narrow Majority!"

[Heisenberg]

Hey, I remember voting for Bill Clinton when I was a kid in school because his name sounded less funny (my mom didn't ever vote). I feel like kids now are much more likely to be politically 'tuned in' than I was as a kid in the early '90s, even if their parents aren't particularly politically active.

Just wondering, was that in 1992, or 1996?

[Mr. Smith]

Are kids these days secretly Ohioans?

And what the hell did they see in 1960? JFK looked like a damn movie star and had an excellent voice, every kid I knew in grade school would've lapped that stuff up.

@jphp: If kids are more tuned in, it's probably because everything's so polarized and the media is vast that you can't really escape it. You could watch a clip of idk, Steven Universe and run into some kind of ad for one candidate or another.

Whereas parents are too overworked and busy and probably feel to let down by any side of politics to care.

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

This looks like a good map for 2028, taking into account demographic trends... also keep in mind that Trump's largest state is Tennessee.

[Trapsy]

This is a very plausible map.

[dspNY]

KIDS PICKED NIXON OVER KENNEDY!?!

Nixon was the sitting vice president for a very popular President (Ike). Everyone forgets that Nixon was considered the favorite to win in 1960 until the debate. He would have had more name recognition with 1960 kids than Kennedy, believe it or not.

He was not scandalized by Watergate yet, and was considered a popular figure in conservative and much of moderate 1960 America for his anti-Communist stances

[Figueira]

Time to eliminate the voting age!

Seriously though, what is the average age of parents of school(?) children?

[100% pro-life no matter what]

This looks like a good map for 2028, taking into account demographic trends... also keep in mind that Trump's largest state is Tennessee.

Are you one of those people who thinks every state is eventually going to be a blue state, and some are just further away than others?

[Maxwell]

If this is right, Trump could be in huge trouble - young kids tend to emulate what their parents believe.

[Figueira]

KIDS PICKED NIXON OVER KENNEDY!?!

Darned baby boomers

[Blackacre]

This looks like a good map for 2028, taking into account demographic trends... also keep in mind that Trump's largest state is Tennessee.

Are you one of those people who thinks every state is eventually going to be a blue state, and some are just further away than others?

1. That map would only be plausible for 2028 in a landslide Dem win, but even thats interesting. After all, every state but MN was red in 1984, so future maps in which every state or almost every state are blue because of a national rout arent to be dismissed

2. Every state is a blue state, ExtremeRepublican. Every last one. Pick a state. It's either a blue state or it's an Atlas Blue state

[Erich Maria Remarque]

Wow, I didn't know, that Trump was that popular among kids

He is then more popular among all (=much more diverse, literally every white kid has a non-white buddy) kids than among 18-34 LV (= much more Whites).

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

This looks like a good map for 2028, taking into account demographic trends... also keep in mind that Trump's largest state is Tennessee.

Are you one of those people who thinks every state is eventually going to be a blue state, and some are just further away than others?

No, I just think that this  is what an Obama '08 style victory would look like in 2028, more or less. Maybe without WI/IN, and OH would be on the margins. Of course this all assumes that the party keeps going Trump-ist.

[SWE]

wtf iowa children

[Maxwell]

wtf iowa children

HOW STUPID ARE THE CHILDREN OF IOWA???

[BuckeyeNut]

Who did the children of DC vote for???

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RIP Iowa

[Dr. Arch]

RIP Iowa

Straight down the gutter it's going.

[skoods]

Like the male/female voter map, the red states in this map are literally the best in the nation. God bless those patriotic children.

My apologies to anyone who lives in any of those states. But, honestly, every single one of the red states in that map is rural, redneck, and crappy. I'd rather be in the Hague.

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

Like the male/female voter map, the red states in this map are literally the best in the nation. God bless those patriotic children.

My apologies to anyone who lives in any of those states. But, honestly, every single one of the red states in that map is rural, redneck, and crappy. I'd rather be in the Hague.

Montana?