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American teens have spoken, and they want George W. Bush for president. Nearly 1.4 million teens voted in the nation's largest mock election, and the Republican incumbent wound up with 393 electoral votes and 55 percent of the total votes cast.

Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry received 145 electoral votes, far short of the 270 electoral votes needed to win a presidential election. Kerry received 45 percent of the total votes, while five percent of teens selected the third-party option, though no third-party presidential hopefuls managed to pick up any electoral votes.

And in other news, there are 105% of teenagers voting to the best of their ability.
http://www.channelone.com/election_2004/results/

Why the hell did NH only get 7.7% third party votes? Free State Project my ass.

What. The. Fuck.

That is bullshit. Either that, or it's true that teenagers are getting stupid.

Or maybe they just don't agree with you.

Public schooling has gone downhill even since I graduated, and that was only 2002.

And teenagers aren't stupid, they are generally uninformed. You know, like adults, only shorter.

I was under the impression that most teens leaned towards Kerry, if only because it's the popular thing to hate America and Bush right now.

Politics is just hectic right now. I'll take an advice from an onliner in another forum and just avoid politics until it gets "boring" again.
~Neo

Segaholic2 wrote:I was under the impression that most teens leaned towards Kerry, if only because it's the popular thing to hate America and Bush right now.

And Texans, because Bush is from Texas.

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I thought Channel One was in California. Oh, and our school had to do that "One Vote" thing, you had to vote online obviously. We saw the results on TV this afternoon, third party (not even Nader) only got 5% of the votes, and Hawaii voted for Kerry. How many people in Hawaii have the internet anyway?

Or maybe they just don't agree with you.

My dad's like that. The best political argument I've ever heard him give is "because they're stupid."

I'm being handed something... This just in, it doesn't really matter because most teens don't vote anyway, and most of the people who were involved with the mock election are ignorant and not of voting age.

Now back to Tom with the weather.

*Shrugs* Wouldn't it be funny if a board of immature worshippers of an ASCII votespammed Nader to see what would happen?

Channel One is corrupt anyways. It's an excuse to make kids watch commercials during class.

Yup, and it's mostly military, acne treatment, and shaving commercials.

A few years ago, in 01-02 I think, they would play this one Mario GBA commercial (Super Mario World 1 or 2 I think) over and over and over again. Like every commercial break, every day, for weeks. Sometimes they would even show it, play a navy commercial, then show it again.

I remember a heavy lineup of N64 commericials when we watched Channel One in middle school. I also remember failing 50% of the current events quizzes.

What the heck is Channel One?

Protodude wrote:A few years ago, in 01-02 I think, they would play this one Mario GBA commercial (Super Mario World 1 or 2 I think) over and over and over again. Like every commercial break, every day, for weeks. Sometimes they would even show it, play a navy commercial, then show it again.

I remember that, it was annoying. VERB, IT'S WHAT YOU DO IN THE NAVY WHILE YOU PLAY SUPER MARIO WORLD BETWEEN ASSPOUNDINGS.

What the heck is Channel One?

It's a "free" new channel to be shown in public schools to students. Most students are forced to watch it. Coincidentally, it's packed with a ton of commericials. Basically it's marketing that teachers can force down the throats of impressionable young children.

Yay for the commercialization of public learning institutions! Let's teach kids what's really important: To buy things from Wal*Mart!

That's pretty lame.

Zeta wrote:It's a "free" new channel to be shown in public schools to students.

Private schools get it too.

I've never heard of it. Thought you all should know.