CNN now reduced to quoting a children's poll that shows * winning

[CatWoman]

how fucking desperate

[Randi_Listener]

1. LOL

Facking pathetic.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

2. The Scholastic one?

Puh-leeze.

[CatWoman]

3. yup

and Lou Dobbs says that this poll correctly and consistently has named the winner........

[LiberalFighter]

19. Did they really predict Clinton winning both times?

[Eric J in MN]

28. deleted

nt

[LiberalFighter]

33. NOT TRUE they didn't predict correctly in 1992

The only glitch was in 1992. Older students—grade 4 and above—chose Clinton over Bush, 50% to 42%. However younger students chose Bush over Clinton, 64% to 33%. This was the result, perhaps of younger students' greater familiarity with the incumbent President than with this relatively unknown rival, the Governor of Arkansas. The adult vote was Clinton 53% and Bush 47%.


from Weekly Reader's press release Stamford, CT, September 20, 2000

[KharmaTrain]

42. I Thought They Voted Gore in 2000...

My son will do the high school vote on 10/28...and wanna bet CNNservative doesn't report those numbers. If my tea leaves read right on this one, if Bunnypants crosses 35% in that poll it's been freeped.

[Pirate Smile]

9. Weekly Reader - whatever that is.

[librechik]

26. Scholastic kids voted for Kerry; it's different from Weekly Reader n/t

(announced a couple of days ago

[LiberalFighter]

31. Kerry only won Maryland... you know it isn't worth diddly

President Bush was a strong winner in the student poll; the only state Senator Kerry won was Maryland. Senator Kerry was also in a statistical dead heat with President Bush in New York, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C. and Vermont. President Bush won most grades, although Senator Kerry did win among tenth-graders.

[jmowreader]

37. It's a newsmagazine for schoolkids

And it's been around just about forever--or at least since the 1950s.

http://www.weeklyreader.com

[Fenris]

4. Let's face it.

Atlanta should apologize for CNN.:D:P

:hi:

[CatWoman]

6. Atlanta should also apologize for Zell Miller!!

:hi:

:D

[Fenris]

13. But they did give us Nipsey Russell!

:D

[MissB]

5. Bwahahaha

That is just so..... perfect.

[PATRICK]

7. Now they have warring kids' polls?

Only because Bush was announced losing the traditional polls that are more accurate than the "grownups". That is really really pathetic.

What poll was that? The twins?

[dogtag]

8. I'll take a wild guess and bet that the

Weekly Reader poll ALWAYS picks the incumbent when there is one. Little kids will vote for the guy they know. The guy whose picture is on the schoolhouse wall.

[Indiana_Dem]

12. My 9YO grandson saw my K/E pic on the fridge,

and he said he doesn't like Bush at all and he wanted those guys to win!

[doni_georgia]

10. Kerry won the Nickelodeon poll by 14 points - this one has predicted the

winner in the last four presidential elections.

[doni_georgia]

16. Oh, yeah and in my classroom vote

Kerry had 15 votes to Shrub's 6, with one kid voting for the Libertarian candidate. I can typically spot how the parents of my students are voting from the kids' votes.

[Ediacara]

20. Not just the last four times....

but EVERY time it's been taken (which granted is just the last four times....).

If they're going to trot out childrens' polls, we can counter that the Nickelodeon poll has a 100% success rate, and the scholastic reader is something like 80%.

[Peanut Gallery]

29. My child is watching Rugrats...

They just announced that. Kerry 57 Bush 43 or somehing like that.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

11. Something like 1% of kids voted for "mom"

But I'm sure the poll is very relevant anyway...

[d_b]

15. I prefer the Nickelodeon poll

[snowbear]

14. The big enchilada of all children's polls.....

..was Nikelodean.

We won. Nuff said. ;)

[TomClash]

17. The Government Controlled News Network n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

18. We need to send them the results of the Nickelodeon poll!

I can't find it though. :(

[Cha]

34. It's on there own website!

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/20/campaign.kids.reut/

[vademocrat]

21. LOL! From the "Certainly Not Necessary" network

although I still get a kick reading posts from those of you who do still watch the "Certainly Not News" network..

[joytomme]

22. CNN polling children

I saw that...and in Dobbs's defense (I'm not a fan of his) he was soooo uncomfortable with that story...as well as the CNN poll that Bush is ahead by 5 points. Dobbs doesn't agree.

CNN has totally lost all credibility with their election coverage.

Joy Tomme (http://ratfuckdiary.blogspot.com)

[truthpusher]

23. The Hippo from 'New Zoo Review' is voting for Bush.

[faithnotgreed]

27. im afraid joe would have too but not mary... iloved new zoo review

as a wee child

[truthpusher]

24. The Girl from 'Big Comfy Couch' is in the Kerry Column...Yeah!!

[doni_georgia]

36. Knew Loonette had to be a Dem. ROFL - that show's way too creative

for pugs to have anything to do with it.

[bloom]

25. LOL

:bounce:

that is too funny

[pandorasox]

30. And when I was 12 years old,

my Confirmation prayer was for President Nixon, who was having a few problems at the time.

The lector rather choked on that line. ;-)

[Cha]

32. But Kerry already won THE KIDS POLL!

The Nickelodeon poll!

"Kerry wins prophetic kids poll"

And this is from cnn's news site, too!

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/20/campaign.kids.reut/

[hightension]

35. is he winning

on a poll that asks which candidate thinks on the same level that they do?

[George W. Dunce]

38. All we heard four years ago

was the Nick.com poll. When they vote, they pick the winner every time, yada yada yada. Now that Kerry is the clear winner in that poll they are doing their best to push the scholastic poll. Transparent asshole hacks.

[spooky3]

39. Good, now we know where * should target his GOTV efforts. Or is that

"GOAT"?

[Francine Frensky]

40. You know that kids have to PAY for the "Weekly Reader"?

I bet kids in lower income schools don't get this, or atleast I hope they don't, because based on what I see coming home from school, it's not all that great.

I have a second grader and a third grader, at a public school, and all parents are "encouraged" to pay $5 (or was it $7?) at the beginning of the year to pay for the weekly readers.

Not much $, but they are always nickle-diming parents for every little thing, so I can imagine some schools would decide that just was too much, for too little.

[Dinger]

41. My Class Voted in That Poll 14-13 Kerry

I did a unit on the campaign, and I went out of my way to be unbiased. I was disappointed it was so close, but this is a very repuglican county in Wisconsin (Shawano).

[nostamj]

43. actually, it's appropriate

considering that bushco considers Americans to be 10yos in need of *'s strong, parental leadership.

they aren't interested in the opinions of adults....

[UL_Approved]

44. Hey teacher, leave those kids alone

I see that No Child Left Behind needed another media spotlight...