If students could vote, America would have its first woman president. U.S. students in grades 4-12 chose Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in a national mock election with a 24-year record of reflecting the real election outcome.
Nationally, Clinton won 47 percent of the popular vote and 365 out of 538 Electoral College votes, as well as Florida, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Trump won 41 percent of the popular vote and 173 Electoral College votes, while “other” candidates, including Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein, won 12 percent.
However, Clinton lost in Georgia where 47 percent of students went with Trump. Clinton earned 39 percent of student votes here.
Released today, the 300,000 student votes are cast through OneVote 2016, a project of Channel One News, a daily news program that reaches more than 6 million students in U.S. classrooms.
To read more, including the top political concerns of students and how Georgia kids differ from their peers nationally, go to the AJC Get Schooled blog.
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