The Kids are Alright

Press Release from Kids Voting Missouri:

Sen. John F. Kerry would be president if it were up to the more than 125,000 K-12 students in the St. Louis area who cast ballots Tuesday through the Kids Voting Missouri program.

Students chose Kerry over President George W. Bush by a margin of 62 percent to 36 percent, while third party candidates garnered 3 percent of the vote.

In the Kids Voting race for governor, Claire McCaskill garnered 54 percent of the vote compared to 41 percent for Matt Blunt, with third party candidates getting 4 percent.

In the secretary of state race, Kids Voting Missouri students, like adults, picked Robin Carnahan over Catherine Hanaway by a 47 percent to 37 percent margin, with third party candidates getting 17 percent of the vote.

And Kids Voting students, like adult voters, passed Constitutional
Amendment No. 3 by a vote of 63 percent to 37 percent.

Visit http://kidsvoting.umsl.edu for complete election results.