[tsl/leadership] The teen grid votes Obama!
As we blogged yesterday, yesterday in TSL we coordinated a mock election. With the help of many amazing teens including Ryan Dayton, who scripted a grid-wide voting system, and Victoria Hanfoi, who put together non-partisan candidate fact sheets to place near the polls (not to mention staying online all day yesterday teleporting people to vote!), we managed to hold what we think might be the first ever mock US Presidential Vote in a teen virtual world.
After teens voted, many stopped in and participated in a GK Intern run event by Lee Soothsayer and Nate Kongo; an open mic/debate about the race and the issues related to it. (Look for a blog post from them soon!) It was incredible just to be a fly on the wall during the event, listening as teens debated really touchy issues from abortion to the war in an incredibly civil way.
Oh? What's that? You want to know who won the TSL mock election? Oh, right! Here are the results:
358 Votes Total
John McCain/Sarah Palin: 91 votes. (25%)
Barack Obama/Joe Biden: 245 votes. (68%) - WINNER!
Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle: 2 votes. (1%)
Bob Barr/Wayne Allen Root: 7 votes. (2%)
Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente: 2 votes. (1%)
Ralph Nadar/Matt Gonzalez: 11 votes. (3%)
Thanks to all who voted, and next time hopefully you'll be of age to do it in real life!
