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2016 Postmortem

pstokely

(10,529 posts) Tue Nov 8, 2016, 03:51 AM Nov 2016

Trump wins Northeastern High's mock election

I assume this school is mostly white

http://www.pal-item.com/story/news/education/2016/11/07/trump-wins-northeastern-highs-mock-election/93435274/

"Grades 9-12 were eligible to participate in the election at the Fountain City school.

The polls opened Friday and were closed Monday. The election was conducted through a program called Survey Monkey via the students' iPads.

Trump earned 65 percent of the vote, followed by Hillary Clinton with 17.69 percent, Gary Johnson with 15.77 percent and Jill Stein with 1.54 percent.

Sixty-one percent of students voted, said social studies teacher Mike Roeder.

"I have held these student mock elections during five presidential elections and this is, by far, the largest participation percentage we have ever had," Roeder said. "They usually parallel the adult vote fairly closely.""