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Obama Wins in a Landslide Among Schoolkids

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(Newser) – Barack Obama may be pulling slowly away from John McCain, but he's the overwhelming choice among the pre-K through 12th grade set. In a Scholastic poll, 57% of 250,000 students picked the Dem, USA Today reports. And don’t write it off as youthful inexperience —the poll has an 88% accuracy rate, only twice failing to predict the real winner since 1940. Write-ins this year included Hillary Clinton, Ron Paul, “My Dad,” and Stephen Colbert.

Students cheer for Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Wednesday, July 2, 2008.
Students cheer for Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Wednesday, July 2, 2008.   (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama talks to students in a youth program while touring the East Community Ministry in Zanesville, Ohio, on Tuesday, July 1, 2008.
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama talks to students in a youth program while touring the East Community Ministry in Zanesville, Ohio, on Tuesday, July 1, 2008.   (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, talks with students, Alex Rhodes, 14, left, and Naquan Rogers, 15, in a Freshman Leadership class at Granby High School in Norfolk, Va.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, talks with students, Alex Rhodes, 14, left, and Naquan Rogers, 15, in a Freshman Leadership class at Granby High School in Norfolk, Va.   (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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