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. <\/p>\n
Some of the students’ opinions were surprisingly, well, down-to-earth:<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
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.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
According to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Obama polled 314 votes to John McCain’s 127.<\/p>\n
Nine-year-old Brittany Shumway, a fourth-grader at Bloomingdale, was among the 66-student minority there that cast a ballot for McCain.<\/p>\n
“I voted for him because it’s a Republican and because of my parents,” she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n