California has a program under which high schools and middle schools (grades 7-12) may study a current election, and then the students vote in a mock election. The Secretary of State received these results this year on October 24, and his web site now shows the statewide results. 545 schools, with 235,547 participating students, voted as follows for Governor and US Senator:
Governor: Democratic 34.5%, Republican 32.7%, Peace & Freedom 15.6%, Green 8.9%, Libertarian 4.8%, Constitution 3.5%.
US Senator: Democratic 38.5%, Republican 22.0%, Peace & Freedom 17.5%, Green 11.4%, Libertarian 6.1%, Constitution 4.5%.
The Peace & Freedom Party has women candidates for both offices. All of the other candidates for these offices, except the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, are men. Thanks to Irv Sutley for this information.
I like the results of this mock election, especially for the Peace & Freedom, Green and Libertarian parties. Perhaps we should only allow persons under eighteen years of age to vote in this country!
Perhaps CA’s third parties should put a little bit of effort into that proposal from a couple years back about giving 14-18 year olds partial votes.
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