Hillary Clinton Wins Scholastic Student Vote
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Kids across the U.S. have cast their votes for president.
Most voters will make their picks for president on November 8, but our readers have already made their choice. Hillary Clinton won this year’s Scholastic Student Vote.
The Democratic candidate for president received 52 percent of the student votes, while her main challenger, Republican Donald Trump, received 35 percent. The remaining 13 percent was split among dozens of write-in candidates.
The person with the third most votes was Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party, who received about 2 percent. Not far behind were Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who had challenged Clinton for the Democratic nomination (the act of being formally chosen as a candidate for a job or position), and Green Party candidate Jill Stein. About 153,000 students nationwide, from kindergarten through grade 12, voted online or by mail-in paper ballot.
Since 1940, the results of the student vote have usually mirrored the outcome of the presidential election. In fact, Scholastic readers have been wrong only twice. In 1948, kids picked Thomas E. Dewey over President Harry S. Truman. And in 1960, more students voted for Richard M. Nixon than for the eventual president, John F. Kennedy.
Here's the state by state breakdown:
http://election.scholastic.com/vote/
I love that Clinton won in Alaska, Texas, Utah, South Carolina, Arizona and Georgia as well as all of the swing states (except Iowa) and the blue states.
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Kids are Smart!
I grew up in Arizona and was in the 4th grade during the 1996 election - I voted for Bill in that year's Scholastic election and so did my class. And on election day, a majority of voters in the state did too...hoping history repeats itself this year, 20 years later! 
That is awesome!
