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Nickelodeon Kids Pick The President Poll - Who Won?

Posted by SunnyChanel

It looks like the TV lovin' kids of Nickelodeon-land are a lot more divided about politics than the book worns of the Scholastic crowd. Over two million kids voted for who they would like to see as President of the United States in Nickelodeon’s “2008 Kids Pick the President” election. They told the kids that they are “letting you pick the issues AND the president, because the next four years affect you just as much as any adult…and could affect your future even more!” So, who did the wee ones pick?

Barack Obama! But it was a close race with Obama getting 51% (1,167.087) of the votes versus John McCain getting 49% (1,129,945) of the votes.  The results of the Scholastic Poll were 57% for Obama and 39% for McCain. But Obama won both, will the kids have their say? What do you think?

 

 


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Comments

 

PoliticalDad said:

Good lord, what do kids see in McCain?

October 21, 2008 6:34 AM
 

Michelle Michaels said:

Easy. He looks like Grandpa.

October 21, 2008 7:48 AM
 

Knitty said:

Oh good god, how could it POSSIBLY be that close?  That's so freaking scary.

October 21, 2008 1:06 PM
 

nikkio said:

go obama

October 21, 2008 1:45 PM
 

Le-lee said:

GOD OBAMA DOMINATES!! HE'S NEVER LOST AN ELECTION!! AHAHAH MCCAIN SUCKS CRAPP! HE'S SOO FREAKIN OLD

October 21, 2008 6:43 PM
 

Susan said:

I am a teacher, and I have been shocked at how many kids say they support McCain.  I think it has more to do with their parents' opinions than their own.  

It reminds me of four years ago when my sister heard her twins whispering in their room.  She went to see what they were doing and they were pushing their piggy banks under their beds.  She asked them why, and they said "We are hiding our money because Paisley at school said that if John Kerry wins, he will take everyone's money."  They were only 4 years old at the time.  I wonder who they would have picked in a poll at that point!

October 21, 2008 7:01 PM
 

Corey Jmaes said:

I am happy  with the  results of the votes.I think that Obama is young and he will bring more young people to vote!All I can say is YES WE CANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

October 21, 2008 8:18 PM
 

allison said:

John Kerry won this "election" in 2004, 57% to 43%.

October 21, 2008 10:22 PM
 

happyteen said:

im only

fifteen an wen i saw

the commercial for

the kids pick the president

i was so on it!even though

i cant vote in reall life it jus lets my opinion get out there!!!go barak!!!!yessss weee caann!!!!

i think this is a cool way to get kids involved too!!!

October 22, 2008 1:09 PM
 

beach princess said:

Barack Obama Rocks! McCain looks old enough to die at any minute, and then we would have Sarah Palin as president instead. But anyways...

YES WE CAN!!TOGETHER WE CAN!

October 22, 2008 10:51 PM
 

taylor said:

i think that most young people will vote for barak obama but what they dont now is they are making a big mistake i mean who would want a person who is going to rase taxes for higher class people and going to give money to the poor i now it sounds right that he wants to give to the poor but you know they didnt earn it and in my opinon i dont think its right that people with no money sit on there but and do nothing but yet he wants to give money to people that dont earn it i vote for john mccain and you know hes only 72 i think he can last four years i mean come on insted of packing on john mccain get a life

October 23, 2008 9:10 PM
 

OBAMA FOR YOUR MOMA said:

dammm barack is better than mccain, mccain suck

October 23, 2008 11:44 PM
 

Shaquitta said:

Addressing Taylor's comment,

Barack Obama is not trying to give money to people who sit on their butt. He's trying to help people out who are either working at low wages and can barely afford to support their families and people who had jobs but were laid off because of the economy. Believe it or not, there are decent people in this world who want an education but can't afford it because their parents aren't wealthy or because they couldn't get enough financial aid. It doesn't mean that those people don't deserve an education or if they just have to work instead that they have to live in poverty and no one should care. It's very demoralizing to make a comment like you did assuming that everyone who is poor is sitting on their butt doing nothing looking for a handout. Highly disrespectful!

Like the saying goes..."the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer". This is not how America is supposed to be. We should all be working together. Like Obama said himself, he wouldn't mind paying a little bit more in taxes to help those who really need help. Would it really hurt the rich to pay a little more? NO. But people are selfish and greedy. I'm not the type of person that believes that as long as I'm doing well I could care less about other people who are in need. With this mindset, we will never move forward.  McCain lives in excess...why not help someone else for a change?

I'm voting for change, not the same 'ol politics. I'm voting for Barack Obama!!! :)

October 24, 2008 10:33 AM
 

Candace said:

I would just like to say to the girl/boy taylor that both John McCain and Barack Obama would raise taxes. But, if you have seen recent polls "TAYLOR", rich people favor McCain over middle class people by, like, 40%. Do u know why this is, TAYLOR! It's because oldie locks is gonna take from the poor and give to the rich. You yourself are probably in the middle class. So, you or your parents, however old you are, will not have to pay higher taxes.(If you make less than 250,000 dollars). If you are rich, then I know why you think what u think. I'm 12 years of age, and I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT!

October 24, 2008 4:34 PM
 

Anna said:

I think that Ron Paul should be president because he believes that the peoples opinion should count and he wants to save money and lower taxes. He wants the world to be at peace with each other and not go to war. I bet most of you have never even heard about him, and that is because the government does not want him to be president, so they never talk about him. Try looking Ron Paul up on youtube and you will see why I would vote for him.

                            Anna

                              Age 12

October 24, 2008 10:45 PM
 

Candace2 said:

I agree with Anna, and yes Anna, I know who Ron Paul is. Even though when I am able to register to vote I will vote democrat, I would vote Ron Paul if he was running still.

October 25, 2008 3:19 PM
 

KidsAreStupid said:

Obama will turn the United States of America into the United Socialists of America.

The housing crisis was the fault of Democrats, not Republicans. It was Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting subprime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed.

As Thomas Sowell points out in a TownHall.com essay entitled Do Facts Matter? "Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's Secretary of the Treasury."

These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was ... the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was ... the Republican Party.

Now let's follow the money ... right to the presidential candidate who is the number-two recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae.

And after Freddie Raines, the CEO of Fannie Mae who made $90 million while running it into the ground, was fired for his incompetence, one presidential candidate's campaign actually consulted him for advice on housing.

If that presidential candidate had been John McCain, you would have called it a major scandal and we would be getting stories in your paper every day about how incompetent and corrupt he was.

But instead, that candidate was Barack Obama, and so you have buried this story, and when the McCain campaign dared to call Raines an "adviser" to the Obama campaign -- because that campaign had sought his advice -- you actually let Obama's people get away with accusing McCain of lying, merely because Raines wasn't listed as an officialadviser to the Obama campaign.

For more on this...www.ornery.org/.../2008-10-05-1.html

October 26, 2008 7:46 PM
 

whosenext said:

THANK GOD FOR KIDS. THOSE WITH A POWERFUL, STRONG UPBRINGING KNOW WHATS GOOD FOR THEM AND WHATS BAD.  THOUGH IT WAS A CLOSE POLL AS IT WILL BE ON THE 4TH, KIDS MADE THEIR DECISION AND IT WAS FOR THE PERSON THEY DEEMED STRONG ENOUGH TO BE THEIR LEADER AND I AGREE.  IF WE TAKE ONE THING FROM THIS POLL OF OUR KIDS, OUR YOUTH, OUR FUTURE IT SHOULD BE TO GO INTO THIS WITH A CLEAR MIND AND MAKE A DESICISION BASED ON THE HOW WE WANT OUR WORLD TO BE TOMORROW.

October 28, 2008 10:06 AM
 

Jen said:

Well they have picked correctly 5/6 times right? YAY for them i hope they are right this time around!!!

GO OBAMA!!!!

November 1, 2008 12:47 AM
 

migetMan said:

 It what ever the independent guy is which of courrse i don't know who that is i wan't Obama the Lama your Mama.

November 2, 2008 6:16 PM
 

Kendricka Tuck said:

I think Obama should be the president because I want to have Obama as the first black president so he can rule the United States.

November 4, 2008 7:26 AM
 

craig said:

hi

November 4, 2008 3:33 PM
 

amelia said:

I think Obama should eat a jolly rancher and choke to death. McCain rocks and every person in the U.S. should know that. Go McCain. Boo Obama

November 4, 2008 8:37 PM
 

KDZEE said:

OBAMA   SHOULD  WIN  BECAUSE   MCAIN  CANT  LIVE   FOR  THAT   LONG   AND  OBAMA   IS  DOING  CHANGE

November 5, 2008 8:53 AM
 

KENDRA said:

MCAIN  YOUR  PRESIDENTRAL   ARE  OVER!

November 5, 2008 8:56 AM
 

Ashley said:

I love that kids have "a strong upbringing" when they choose to vote for change and unicorns--I mean obama, but I am supposedly just lstening and regurgitating my parents points of view if I am choosing McCain. Why don't you give children a little more credit. I have been studying politics since I was 10 years old and chose the Republican side then. (Actually McCain himself the first time in 2000) I was 12 and my entire family voted for al gore. I'm sure the response will be that I was trying to be a rebel. But acknowlege the fact that children make their own choices. Not all children of course but not all children follow idly along with their parents either. Not like this obama robots chanting change.

Respect the children and their points of views.  

November 9, 2008 11:02 PM
 

Candace3 said:

Addressing KidsAreStupid:

I am a kid. Just an ordinary kid. I do have a smart thought,though. Kids are not stupid, and Obama is not a socialist. He is a half African-American,half white American, just like you and me. Also, kids aren't stupid because we know who would impact us bad or good when we get older. If Obama is a socialist, and American, wouldn't that make us all socialists? I bet you wouldn't want to be called a socialist, right? Also, that link, as my research has told me, is a right-wing internet periodical. I am not just some stupid kid. Nickelodeon asked the kids of America their opinion. They chose Barack Obama. We have an opinion, too. Your republican, and probably an adult. Just because you are bigger and supposedly smarter, the kids, and , the adults chose Obama, so please deal with it.

November 15, 2008 2:00 PM
 

Anonymous said:

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November 15, 2008 4:28 PM

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