The results are in -- 17,426 students voted in the Rhode Island Student Mock Election - including 9,225 by paper ballot, 4,483 on the National Student/Parent Mock Election website and 3,718 on our own projo.com/nie site. Here are the results:

President
Obama 72.07%
McCain 24.24%
Write-in 1.31%
Nader 1.11%
McKinney .56%
Barr .36%
Baldwin .32%

U.S. Senate
Reed 75.56%
Tingle 24.43%

Representative in Congress for District One
Kennedy 32.52%
Scott 7.29%
Capalbo 3.7%

Representative in Congress for District Two
Langevin 37.49%
Zaccaria 18.99%

Let's re-visit these results next Wednesday, and compare them to actual election results. It'll be interesting to see how closely our children's votes match their parents.

Meanwhile, lots of great built-in math lessons here!

And, while we're at it, here are the results for the question:If miracles could happen, which past president would you choose to lead the country?
Lincoln 33.1%
Kennedy 18.12%
Clinton 15.7%
Washington 13.05%
F. Roosevelt 7.0%
Reagan 6.74%
T. Roosevelt 3.08%
Jefferson 2.24%
Truman .47%
Eisenhower .45%

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