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This morning on CNN two impressively mature Scholastic Kids Press Corps reporters were on. They aren’t old enough to vote, but that didn’t stop them from having a poll among the children of our future. How did the poll go?

Obama got 57% of the votes while McCain got 39% in the Election 2008 Kids Vote: The poll was open to kids from grades 1 to 12 in Scholastic News and Junior Scholastic magazines. Almost 250,000 (a quarter of a million) kids voted by paper ballot or online at http://www.scholastic.com/news. The poll closed on October 10.

Wondering how accurate these kids have been? Since 1940 the kids poll results have only been wrong twice versus the popular results. In 1960 and in 2000. They also provide results from the swing states of: Colorado (McCain), Florida (Obama), Indiana (McCain), Iowa (Obama), Michigan (Obama), Missouri (McCain), Ohio (Obama) and Pennsylvania (Obama). And for the Twitter fans, yes, the Scholastic Kids are twittering at http://twitter.com/scholasticnews. Don’t laugh, they are probably right more than most of the adult political pundits and bloggers.