Voting done by kids before the election has accurately predicted every presidential election since 1964, and 16 of the last 18 presidential elections.
Greg Toppo of USA Today reports that Scholastic sponsors the vote for kids in elementary schools through high schools and conducted the vote from August through Oct. 12.
Now, the 2016 results are in: Hillary Clinton won the children’s vote in a landslide.
Clinton got 52 percent of the vote, to Donald Trump’s 35 percent. When Scholastic tallied the electoral votes, Clinton got an incredible 436 to Trump’s 99.
In Washington, D.C., kids actually gave the district’s three electoral votes to “other.” Overall, “other” candidates such as Gary Johnson and Jill Stein got 13 percent of the kid vote. Bernie Sanders even got 1 percent of the vote.
The only two times the children’s vote has incorrectly predicted the actual election were in 1948, picking Thomas Dewey over President Truman, and 1960, when they picked Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy.
Jason Russell is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.
