Saranac Lake district students strawpoll for Obama

Democrat Barack Obama has dominated the youth vote this election cycle. That momentum carried him through the strawpoll balloting at Bloomingdale and Petrova Elementary Schools in the Saranac Lake district.

Some of the students’ opinions were surprisingly, well, down-to-earth:

“He said he would cut taxes, and for me, that means my parents will give me more money on pay day,” Matthew Loso, 9, a fourth-grader at Bloomingdale, said of Obama.

Caleb Alford, 10, a fifth-grader at Petrova, said he voted for Obama “because he wanted the war to end and he believed in health insurance. He also believes in a lot of education.”

According to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Obama polled 314 votes to John McCain’s 127.

Nine-year-old Brittany Shumway, a fourth-grader at Bloomingdale, was among the 66-student minority there that cast a ballot for McCain.

“I voted for him because it’s a Republican and because of my parents,” she said.

Read the full Adirondack Daily Enterprise article here:

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