Even Kids Don’t Vote For Ron Paul

On this election day, it’s important to remember the candidates who have since passed us by and gotten us to this point. On the Democratic side, there’s a bunch of well-meaning goobers who couldn’t possibly raise as much money or get as many votes as either Obama or Clinton; on the Republican side, there’s a ton of idiots who couldn’t even beat John McCain. Remember when Fred Thompson from the television was going to be president?

But a students at Robert K. Shafer Middle School in Bensalem were allowed to vote for some of those past candidates in a mock election; naturally, Obama won and Clinton took second. But let’s see how the also-rans did!

The seventh- and eighth-graders were asked to pick among Obama, Clinton, John McCain, Ron Paul or Mike Huckabee.

Obama captured about 60 percent of the 253 votes cast in the mock election to Clinton’s 30 percent, officials said. McCain received about 9 percent, Huckabee collected just under 1 percent of the vote and Paul received no votes in the mock election, officials said.

Have we extinguished the Ron Paul menace? Is the income tax just not an issue for seventh and eighth graders? All I know is there are some pretty smart seventh- and eighth-graders in Bensalem. No doubt they will soon all be harassed at their homes and places of business by angry Ron Paul fans wondering why they didn’t vote for him.

Kids back Obama in mock elections [Bucks County Courier Times]