I serve as a Legislative Committee Co-Chair of the A.L. Lotts Elementary School PTA. This morning our committee held a kid vote event for the Democrat and Republican candidates for President. Each student was allowed to select one Democrat and one Republican. In the older grades some students only selected one candidate.

We had two precincts, the South precinct was primarily for Kindergarten and First grade and the North precinct was for Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth grades.

The Democrat ballot had Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Barrack Obama and Write-In. The Republican ballot had Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Write-In. Yes, we forgot Ron Paul. Sorry about that.

The ballots were printed before Edwards and Giuliani backed out.

The Democrat results

Clinton 357

Obama 349

Edwards 113

Write-In 4

Clinton won the Democrat nomination by 8 votes.

The Republican results

Huckabee 355

McCain 240

Romney 194

Giuliani 40

Huckabee won the Republican nomination in a landslide.

Republican Write Ins

Ron Paul 3

Condoleezza Rice 2

Me 1

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