Hillary Clinton won the Colorado vote among upper elementary, middle and high school students in a recent mock election that has traditionally mirrored how adults will vote for president of the United States.
Democrat Clinton won 55 percent of the popular vote in Colorado with Republican Donald Trump winning 33 percent and other candidates polling at 11 percent. The results were reported by News, a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt company, which produces a daily news program that encourages young people to get involved in current events.
Clinton also won the national popular vote, 47 percent to 41 percent for Trump, as well as the Electoral Vote and key swing states Arizona, Florida and North Carolina.
The mock election, which took place in schools nationwide Oct. 17-21, is important since it has accurately predicted the next president of the United States in every Channel One News poll since the program began in 1992, said Angela Hunter, SVP and Executive Producer at Channel One News.
“If our students were voting today, they would have elected the first female president of the United States. That is an historic occasion that cannot be ignored, even if having a woman president is seen by our young people as a natural event,” said Hunter.
Every day, more than 6 million students in classrooms across the country view Channel One News, according to the company.
Nearly 300,000 votes were cast by students in grades 4-12 across all 50 states. Nationally, Clinton won 365 out of 538 Electoral College votes as well as key swing states including Arizona, Florida and North Carolina.
Donald Trump won 173 Electoral College votes, while other candidates, including Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, won 12 percent.
The Channel One News One Vote ballot also asked students about the political issue most important to them.
The top issues are:
- Terrorism: selected by 19 percent
- Education: selected by12 percent
- Gun Control: selected by 11 percent.
