I boo my vote

So what happens when you ask eleven-year-olds to vote for a candidate based not on image or press spin, but based on the issues a candidate stands for? The children boo their own votes when they find out who they voted for:

Anyway, the teacher was talking about their current events unit, which as you might expect is primarily taken up with the election process right now.
The teacher told of an exercise wherein he read from both the Bush and Kerry websites.  He read where each of the candidates stood on the main issues of the campaign.  He didn’t say who was who…just “this is what candidate one says, this is what candidate two says”.
The kids made tally marks about each thing they agreed with from each candidate.
Then the kids voted on the issues.
Four kids voted for Bush.  26 kids voted for Kerry.

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At any rate, Eden Prairie has grown a crop of Bush/Cheney yard signs that rivals the corn crops of neighboring rural towns.  This is Bush country, make no mistake about it…
…as illustrated by the fact that most of the kids who voted for John Kerry were greatly upset by it.  They booed the results of their vote.  They were upset that they had voted for the “wrong guy”.

This is not unprecedented; after all, I occasionally boo my own vote for Nader back in 2000.

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