Our Schoold And The Country
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In our school election, Al Gore and Joe Lieberman of the Democratic Party beat George Bush and Dick Cheney of the Republican Party in a landslide. Of the 845 students and staff who voted, 56% voted for Gore, 22% for Bush, 17% for Ralph Nader of the Green Party, 3% for Libertarian hopeful Harry Browne and 1% for Pat Buchanan of the Reform Party. Seven hundred ninety-one of the people were students and 54 were staff members. Sadly, just more than half of the staff members voted. Coincidentally, in the national election only 50.7% of the eligible voters actually voted. The staff elected Gore by an even greater margin than the rest of the school. A whopping 80% wanted Gore to be the new president. Bush, Nader and Browne got 11%, 7% and 2% respectively. The students elected Gore with 54%, and Bush, Nader, Browne, and Buchanan received 23%, 18%, 3%, and 1% respectively. Al Gore won on every team and got more than 50% of the votes on five teams. George W. Bush did the best on 8 Red where he took 32% of the votes. George W. Bush came in second on every team except 7 Gold, 7 and 8 Blue. On those teams Nader came in second. Interestingly enough, 8 Blue also had the one of the smallest percentages for Nader. This probably happened because Gore and Lieberman won 8 Blue by the highest margin of 72%. Only 7 Green and the staff had a lower percentage for Nader. Harry Browne did not get double-digit percentages on any team but got the highest percentage on 7 Red with 7%. On 7 Blue no one voted for him. Pat Buchanan of the Reform Party had a lot of trouble at our school. He did the best on 8 Gold and 8 Blue with 2% of the votes. He got no votes from 8 Green, 8 Red and the staff. In total he only got 8 votes. Thanks to the students of 8 Blue who ran this election. Also thank you to Mr. Nolan and Ms. Vacca who coordinated this election.
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