Tuesday September 30, 2008
The Blogster found it only mildly amusing yesterday. While staring open-mouthed at the failed vote on the $700-billion bailout in the House of Representatives, the Dow simultaneously bounced down by 700 points. Then Republicans blamed House Speaker Nancy Pelois for spoiling the atmosphere by blaming the Bush administration in a statement on the floor.
It was too reminiscent of a grade-school recess gone bad.
And then comes word that Scholastic News has opened its quadrennial Kids’ Election Poll, which is now open at WWW.SCHOLASTIC.COM/VOTE.
Children can get on-line in their classrooms, libraries and homes and vote for John McCain or Barack Obama.
“Since 1940, the outcome of the Scholastic Election Poll has mirrored the outcome of the general election in every election but two (in 1948 when students chose Thomas E. Dewey over Harry S. Truman and in 1960 when more students voted for Richard M. Nixon than for John F. Kennedy),” said Jennifer Boggs at the New York-based magazine and Web site.
Many kids have also been issued paper ballots through ScholasticNews (grades 1-6) and Junior Scholastic (grades6-8), which are read by more than 25 million students and teachers each year.
Now, if only the kids could teach members of Congress how to play nicely with each other.