The California Secretary of State here has the votes cast so far in the Mock Election being held in many high schools in California. With approximately 200,000 votes cast so far, the three minor party presidential nominees on the California ballot have 21.9% of the vote between them, whereas Republican nominee Donald Trump has 19.7%. Thanks to Gloria La Riva for this news.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
We did these when I was in grade school.
1992 (elementary school K thru 5):
1st-George H.W. Bush
2nd-Ross Perot
3rd-Bill Clinton
1996 (high school 9 thru 12):
1st-Bob Dole
2nd-Ross Perot
3rd-Bill Clinton
The byline for this post by the way is misleading. To be accurate it should be “Minor Party Presidential Candidates Combined Outpolling Donald Trump, in California High School Mock Election”
One interesting thing in this poll is that Sanchez is beating Harris for the Senate seat.
Rj, thank you, you are right. I altered the title of the blog post.
This year’s results represents a huge increase in the vote totals of the minor party presidential candidates compared to past student mock elections, where the minor party candidates polled 1-2% or less.
In 5th grade we did something like this. Nader ended up winning.
John Oliver had a good segment last night destroying the idiotic Jill Stein and the moronic Gary Johnson. He’s good on Mr. Exotic, too:
http://gothamist.com/2016/10/17/video_john_oliver_very_unimpressed.php?utm_source=Gothamist+Daily&utm_campaign=280337d630-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73240544d8-280337d630-493805
While Gary Johnson is up for debate, Jill Stein is anything but an idiot. John Oliver is a tool of the HRC campaign.
Thank you, Joshua. Oliver is a tool.
The only thing that John Oliver really attacked Gary Johnson for was his economic policies, which are consistently libertarian.
You have to hope that the Sanchez poll will bear out on election day. A Sanchez victory would be a rebuff to the top-two primary system.
A better rebuff will be a huge number of blank votes in the US Senate race.
Sorry – under 18 folks can NOT legally vote in all/most areas —
UNTIL the Donkeys take total control and have 1 second old persons voting for more Donkeys
— along with all illegal invaders in the USA and even foreign folks (?) outside of the USA.
The top Donkeys are obviously doing their EVIL worst to totally and permanently take over the USA — gerrymanders, control SCOTUS, etc. etc.
@Richard Grayson: Isn’t it kind of a cliche to say that John Oliver destroyed somebody or something?