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Source: Sacramento Bee
NEW YORK, Oct. 16, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly a quarter of a million students across the country cast their ballots, and the results are in: President Barack Obama is the winner of the 2012 Scholastic Student Vote, with a 6% lead over Republican candidate Mitt Romney. The Student Vote is conducted every four years through paper ballots in Scholastic Classroom Magazines, and through online voting at
www.scholastic.com/election. The vote is an opportunity for students to learn about the candidates and the issues surrounding the Presidential Election and then cast their own vote. (Video and photos of students voting is available for download here.)
(Logo:
http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100907/SCHOLASTICLOGO )
Final results:
Barack Obama 51%
Mitt Romney 45%
Other 4%
Students who voted for "Other," wrote in Republicans such as Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, John McCain and Paul Ryan. Additional write-ins included Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the occasional "my mom" or "my dad."
Read more here:
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/10/16/4915274/students-elect-president-obama.html#storylink=cpy