Almost as good as Lichtman’s keys!
48% of these kids frighten me.
Nah, it’s just kids parroting their parents views. I did the same thing as a child, and I’m about as far left as you can get as an adult.
The thing about this is, I was a kid in 1996 when Bill Clinton ran against Bob Dole.
Our whole elementary school had a big educational event about the election. Bob Dole and Bill Clinton both sent personalized videos to our schools, explaining what they stood for, and we had a mock election.
My grade overwhelmingly went for Bill Clinton. (I want to say, he had a very easy-to-understand platform regarding the importance of education, and the impact it would have on us, the future electorate. And Bob Dole was… Bob Dole.)
Did I mention I grew up in a very Roman Catholic, very hardcore Republican house? That I grew up in Oklahoma, a red state?
I wasn’t the only kid standing up to my parents over the results!
I guess what I’m saying is, if the children are aware, and still choosing Trump, we need to know why. Kids don’t have a problem voting against their parents, as long as they understand the issues. And if they don’t understand the role they play in their country, we should be extending further education.
I really think that we are failing our children. Our educational system is disgraceful.
And Nickelodeon is where Paw Patrol is, so higher than average right wing subscribers?
I hope anyway. I wonder what a Disney kids poll would end up as. Or a PBS Kids poll.
But was that enough to win the Nickelodeon’s Kids Electoral College?
It wouldn’t be an electoral college in this case. It would be an electoral… middle school?
Take your upvote and leave.
They’re still looking into it. There is currently some debate about some ‘hanging Cheetos’ and they’re going to ask Mom and Dad to clarify some wording.
Helga Pataki* is demanding they recount Florida
*No I cannot make a more current Nickelodeon reference
That 48% makes me so fucking sad…
It’s mostly kids mimicking their parents feelings. Which is not the MOST sad. But still not great.
I think this is much sadder than just the parents thinking like this. Kids should get to be kids and start their lives unencumbered by their parents’ hatred and bitterness.
Unfortunately kids are born with all the sins our world already bares. We can wish and hope for them to be free of the. But that is not reality. No matter what what’s happening is happening and will affect them. We must be better about giving them that world actively and preparing them as needed to be adults in this world.
It’s 48% sad.
Hmmm. And what do you think happens when those kids grow up? Let’s connect the dots, eh?
Well, in 4th grade, I would have gone with Bush. I’ve deviated quite far from that.
Kids become their own people. It’s anybody’s guess as to what they do.
Yeah, my dad is a Trumper, and he can go fuck himself.
Yeah, fuck yo dad.
I don’t know, but I’m sure someone will sell them an assualt rifle with unlimited ammunition.
Unlimited? Ammunition is actually quite expensive.
Had some people in a duel enrollment (collage level) class tell me last Friday that they’d vote for trump because “he’s an asshole but I like his policies”
Don’t worry, at the collage level they’re just bringing a bunch of pictures together
that’s actually so funny I’m not gonna fix it lol
They are really fighting for it.
Yeah I mean… his policies are asshole policies it isn’t really the dodge they think it is.
“What policies?”
So who won the fight? What about at the watercolor level?
Let’s just say it looked like a Jackson Pollock by the end.
Don’t let them fool you, they are voting for him because he’s an asshole and they are assholes like them. It’s an epidemic in the US.
48% to Trump is embarrassing. This country is failing our children.
Unfortunately kids parrot the hate and political leanings of their parents until they grow older at least
Can confirm. Had a 16 year old work part time with me for a few weeks over the summer. Pretty cool kid, but yeah… Trump came up a couple times and both times he just repeated the bullshit that he’d heard from his parents. Sad shit.
Really shows where the problem lies. Indoctrination. Results not much different than the national poll.
Removed by mod
The worst part is knowing that they’re (most likely) just listening to the loudest voter in their household even if other opinions manage to exist in their family.
I only remembered my dad talking about Bush or scoffing at this or that “donkey” thing so I thought it was Bush and the elephants I was supposed to like. I know I would have voted as such in something like this because I didn’t know any better at 6-8 years old, although I’m not finding the kids’ age ranges in this mock election. Anyway, I still didn’t know any better in junior high, I remember voting for Bush again in a 7th grade social studies poll on the 2004 elections. I recall the teacher saying even the results amongst one class were usually a pretty accurate reflection of the actual election results, right down to the goob who voted for Nader.
It took me going to college in the purplest damn section of a pretty red state for me to come to terms with what I actually believed and felt about people and politics. Further education was definitely key, and intertwined with that, it opened me up to people. Just talking to people in an environment where you’re all on essentially the same operating level day to day is huge.
My dad kept doing his thing in the small town where everyone knew everyone and somehow managed to sleep with everyone, too. He turned into a Trumper. I did my thing and I admit, it took me a lot of those four years of working on projects and getting pissed about loans together but really just enjoying life with a modestly diverse, pretty tolerant student body (still a lot of white raised-as-protestant types) to undo the damage of a conservatively skewed and Catholic childhood. But I can tell you that by 2014 I was annoyed at myself for not caring about the 2012 election, this first time I could vote. And you can guess I most certainly never even considered supporting Trump or any of the terrible things he represents when he suddenly-to-me showed up.
Would it make any reasonable sense for my dad to go to college at his age? No, probably not. But how do we get people to “simply” live around and be exposed to more people with relatively little prejudice in social status?
Do we just … Idk where I’m going with this I got high but wait just a tick here did I just reason myself into communism fuckityshit
This country is failing a lot of people. The only ones who really benefit are the rich.
When Harris wins she needs to weaponize the military against the children who chose Trump. It’s only fair.
Kids Choice Army!
Kony 2024?
Imagine the shitstorm if she would’ve said that instead of Trump.
Imagine the shit storm of she wasn’t completely on-the-ball at every second of the campaign.
Which leads me to think she could actually be a good president if she wins 😅🤞
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_Pick_the_President
“Since 1988, Kids Pick the President has accurately predicted the winner of each election with the exceptions of the 2004 and 2016 presidential elections.”
Yeah, those two are not good ones to get wrong.
If it was 2000 and 2016 I’d be more concerned
Maybe a little, but not much
In 2016 the kids favored Clinton by 17 points (36% Trump to 53% Clinton)
Those kids should have voted 3rd party instead of picking one of those two fascists.
/s
11% went for Johnson
Those kids are fascist too. They would have needed to write in Karl Marx or Che Gueverra for us to know for sure.
They includes 3rd parties in 2016, but did not in 2020 and 2024, hence the different margins. And the 3rd party they included was of the Republican spoiler type rather than the Democratic spoiler type
They had way higher third party votes in their poll than actually occured - and the third party votes in 2016 were higher than usual (helping trump narrowly win in 2016)
Well, that’s scary.
Watch this be correct and nickelodeon replaces Nate Silver as the new polling god.
Losing candidate gets slimed.
Trump would probably love it if the slime were yellow and less viscous
I’m sure Marc Summers would be willing to slime politicians.
🙏
So, now we know why the conservatives are so hell-bent on defunding the education system In America…
It’s for votes!
It’s also why they’re opposed to lead pipe removal. They’ll never admit it, but lead poisoning is a major contributor to why people are stupid enough to vote for them.
48% of kids are dumb
100% of kids are dumb, 48% of them have Republican parents.
I have a republican dad and am driven further left every day.
100% of kids are dumb. So far.
While I tend to agree, the only political news I got before I was 18 came from whatever news my parents had on the TV after dinner.
I trust dumb kids more than voting American adults
By 4% though. So nearly half the kids on the street you see want trump. That’s crazy.
Scarier than the current reality of some 50-ish% of voting adults wanting Trump?
Kids can’t do anything to me. But adults control the world right now.
Still, those kids can do something to you in the very near future. I’d still be worried. I was sure it would be like a 60/40 split at best. Yikes.
What kind of f-ed up kid votes for Trump?
The kind whose parents watch media that demonizes the Democrats.
This is 90% just a proxy for how their parents will vote.
Its only a very small portion of kids that age who are going to have substantially different views than their parents (not that they don’t exist!)
The kind who never knew the world before he got into politics, and the kind who think the things he says are funny memes and want to sow chaos in a poll that doesn’t have any real weight. If they had to be serious, more of them probably would be, but it’s not unusual for kids to goof off and be chaotic when they know their voice doesn’t have direct influence on anything that matters.
The people who voted for him in 2016 are raising kids. Once might even call it grooming but that’s a silly word.
Parents voting or telling the kids how to vote.
Young boys have a hard time seeing sexism or arrogance as bad qualities.
I was an only child raised by a single mother, so I guess I have a relatively unique perspective. However, I’m pretty sure I knew both of those things were negative character traits from as early as I can remember.
The thing is the culture war has seeped into everything and these boys aren’t paying that close attention to politics, for them, it’s team Boys vs. team Girls
So close? Sad.
Thanks to the electoral elementary, Trump still wins another term in the principals office.
Remember it’s beneficial for the media when it’s 50/50. Either by only promoting those stories or by skewing the numbers
Well, at least we’re consistently awful
