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Greetings one and all,
Today i saw the following posted, and would love to see the citations for this.
I have looked on the Nickelodeon web site and have found nothing. But i am trusting in the greater intelect of the Gullible users to shed light on this.
A recent Nickelodeon Kids-Call-In® survey named George W. Bush as the best President ever, handily defeating perennial favorites George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
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I'm guessing that you're not a avid Nick viewer and don't have kids!
A few times a year, they hold Kids-Call-Ins, which is basically phone voting on various topics. Linda Ellerbee came up with the original concept, and I assume that she and/or Lucky Duck Productions still runs it. The most recent Kids-Call-In is the one mentioned in the fact and was held on this past Presidents' Day.
They've been doing Kids-Call-Ins for about 5 years now, and they've touched on a variety of issues, some serious and topical, some not. For example, in late 2003, a shockingly high 89% of the kids calling in felt that we should send troops into Iraq. Another one rated cartoon characters, with Sponge Bob coming out on top. My favorite, though, was the 2004 Election Day one, where Bush took an astounding 96% of the vote. If there is one conclusion to be drawn, it is that kids (or at least those who watch Nick and call in) seem to be a fairly conservative lot, or at least support the current President, since that's likely the only President that they've ever known.
As you may know, Linda Ellerbee is way cool (OK, maybe that's an opinion) and she's done many shows that keep kids involved in the issues of the day, such as war, AIDS, racism, religions, cancer, and so on.
I'm not surprised that this isn't on the web site since it's phone-only and it's spurious in that they announce the Kids-Call-In during the day, kids call in, and then they announce the results, usually at 8 PM the same day, as I recall.
I suppose that makes sense, Taed. If they announced these things in advance, the parents might become overly-involved and influence the outcome unduly. I was surprised when only 29% of the children who called in wanted the government to build more shelters for the homeless.
Ah, I remember calling into the first one.
I think it was, "If you could be any member of the President's cabinet, which position would you choose?"
I know I voted for State, but I don't know which one won. And yes, it was 5 years ago.
Two unrelated anecdotes:
1. I was on a Nick News about cloning. In regards to cloning Michael Jordan, I said, "He might be good at playing basketball, but he might not want to play." Or something to that effect.
2. In the 1996 Nick election I voted for Dole just because my brother voted for Clinton. I regret that more than anything else in my entire life. I had the chance to vote for Clinton and I didn't. :-(
Maybe Hillary will run in the next election and you will have another chance to vote Clinton.
I'm not a huge Hillary fan. I just want Bill back.
Moving even farther from the original topic, I recently read Dick Morris' book Hillary vs. Condi: The next great Presidential election or something like that. It was actually very interesting. I'm fairly liberal, and I think that if it came down to the two of them, I'd end up voting for Condi. It sounds weird, but I'd rather have someone who is smart but disagrees with me than the alternative (not that Hillary is dumb, but she's no Condi in that department).
Yet another sign that gullible.info has become too political.
So it would seem that Nick does not post this on their web site. I would have loved to see the numbers involved. Working around the folks that i do i find it refreshing to see that the glaring ignorance of the rumor mill doesn't reach to today's children.
Just maybe we have some hope yet..
Thanks for all of the comments, oh and as far as Hillary or Condi...I would vote Chuthulu first.
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I think the rumor mill does reach the children, crzypvt. It's just that children see things differently than adults do. People tend to oscillate in their belief systems from youth, to adolescence, to adults, to the "silver years."
Would anybody have the numbers on this?
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OK, first of all, this information is not on nick.com. It's on Lucky Duck Productions' website. Don't think luckyduckpro.com is their website. It is not. Their website is actually an ftp site which is ...um... unannounced? hidden? Anyway, I know somebody who knows somebody who knows an assistant to Mr. Rolfe Tessem.
Nonetheless,
Kids-call-in was actually started (and eventually went on hiatus) on KJNO when Linda Ellerby worked there. About once every two weeks, she hosted a program called to address children's issues, much like Loveline for TV/radio. Every week she started with a poll and then announced the results at the end of the show. It was, like many of her endeavors, highly critically acclaimed but the ratings died down, and the show was cancelled after 9 airings, though 12 shows were taped. Nobody knows what became of these tapes, or if there are any copies left anywhere.
The idea resurfaced in 2000, but Ms. Ellerby felt that the basic's show format wasn't novel enough anymore, but the polling idea was still a hit, since nobody has that format. Nickelodeon naturally is the fit for such a poll. A variety of questions were considered, how to run the polls, etc. Finally, March 31, 2001 the first poll aired. The question was "What is the best school course?"
Unfortunately, the day was a Saturday and many children mistook the date for April first, and thought the poll was an April Fools joke perpetrated by Nickelodeon. Over 70% of the calls were from kids asking if it indeed was a joke. The remainder of the calls were mostly divided between biology, computer science or fine arts courses.
There have been 29 questions asked and one should be coming up this month. They are very secretive about when it will be; the website just says "2006-Jun." And naturally, no mention of the topic other than code: B3U849. The records aren't truly "stored" anywhere because the producers feel that there may be some issues with recording voices of minors, etc. Also many kids call in and say something like "I'm Caitlyn from Greenville, SC" or whatnot. All that has to be dumped. So, if you don't watch the actual polling results, you miss it. The results are tabulated, shown on the screen, and eventually dumped. "We're not here to be a statistical polling method, but to make our children think and show 'snapshots' of how kids see the world."
By the way, it seems that we've had some minor misinformation here.
First one is: the first Kids-Call-In was as I mentioned. Adinsx called in to the second one, which was two weeks after the first (so kids wouldn't think it was a hoax). Dept. of State won, by the way.
The second is: the latest Kids-Call-In was April, when kids basically blamed Janet Jackson for ruining freedom of speech. I guess they never heard of George Carlin. :-)
That would make more sense, because the one I saw had a smaller intro than the first one should have had.
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