Young Americans in a mock presidential election have chosen President Bush to occupy the White House for the next four years, producing another map of the U.S. dominated by “red states” in support of the Republican incumbent.
The election, conducted by Channel One, the company that provides a daily newscast for public schools across the nation, included the participation of nearly 1.4 million teenage Americans.
Bush received 55 percent of the popular vote, which translated into 393 electoral votes to Democrat John Kerry’s 145 electoral votes. Kerry, who picked up 40 percent of the popular votes, won the states of California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia. All the other states went to Bush. Five percent of the voters chose the “third party” option.
 Channel One’s election map |
The election produced a map similar to one that became popular with Bush supporters after the 2000 presidential election that showed all the counties Bush carried in red and the counties carried by then-Vice President Al Gore in Blue. A huge percentage of the 2000 map is red.
As WorldNetDaily reported, two other kids’ mock elections were held this fall, with one going to Bush and one to Kerry.
The Scholastics participants chose Bush, 52-47 percent, while young Net surfers “elected” Kerry at Nickelodeon’s website by a margin of 57-43 percent. Both polls claim their results have a consistent track record of predicting the actual winners of presidential elections.
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