Most Kids Don’t Want To Be President
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- February
- 15
According to a poll by Scholastic News of more than 30,000 students in first through eighth grade, 55 percent of students said that they would not want to be president.
But that’s better than a similar Scholastic News poll conducted in March 2006, which found that 81 percent of students did not want to be president, while only 19 percent did want the job.
Yet in New York, go figure, 82 percent said they want to be president, while 18 percent said no.
In California, students’ votes split almost in half: 49% said yes, while 51% said no.
Students in Texas preferred not to be president: 19% said yes, while 81% said no.
And here’s a good one: Of the 1,842 kids voted from Washington, D.C., only ONE of them would want to be president.
Wow. Who’s that kid?
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
The one who can read.