John of Des Moines
12-08-2007, 12:29 PM
Attended two High School caucus training days, City HS, Iowa City (urban, duh) and Dike-New Hartford (rural).
The results:
City HS - Tuesday:
Paul – 20
Giuliani – 18
Huckabee – 17
Romney – 11
McCain – 3
Tancredo – 3
Hunter – 3
Thompson - 2
Held in auditorium. Top four had campaign reps. Class time 45 minutes, each rep gave 5 minute stump speech, then students could visit with reps. The others the instructors read a short statement about that candidate. Being first to arrive I took up a 20 ft thigh-high wall with campaign lit, bumper stickers, buttons, dvds, and Revolution bags to put their collection in and plastered the walls with signs. Some students were allowed to vote in both D and R caucuses if in two classes participating, they vote at the end of each class period. Only students old enough (or will be) to vote participated. Lunch: a deli sub, chips, milk and they turned on the Coke machine in the teachers' lounge for us. ;)
Dike-New Hartford HS - Wednesday:
Huck - 36
Paul - 29
McC - 18
Mitt - 3
All others zero.
Senior HS with about 250 students. Groups of students were shuffled in and out for 15 minutes or so. Gave presentation and took q & a. Then after lunch (chicken fajitas, spaghetti, side salad, chocolate milk) students decided whether to caucus D or R. Republicans caucused in the school library. A student for each candidate got an opportunity to speak, and when nobody spoke for McCain his rep did, :mad::mad: Only Paul, Huck and Mitt had students speak for them. Then other students were allowed to speak for their candidate, with Paul and Huck students dueling it out for 30 minutes. Huck's students kept appealing to fear, pity, and other false premise arguments.
Fun was had by all. And may I said school lunch isn't what it use to be.
The results:
City HS - Tuesday:
Paul – 20
Giuliani – 18
Huckabee – 17
Romney – 11
McCain – 3
Tancredo – 3
Hunter – 3
Thompson - 2
Held in auditorium. Top four had campaign reps. Class time 45 minutes, each rep gave 5 minute stump speech, then students could visit with reps. The others the instructors read a short statement about that candidate. Being first to arrive I took up a 20 ft thigh-high wall with campaign lit, bumper stickers, buttons, dvds, and Revolution bags to put their collection in and plastered the walls with signs. Some students were allowed to vote in both D and R caucuses if in two classes participating, they vote at the end of each class period. Only students old enough (or will be) to vote participated. Lunch: a deli sub, chips, milk and they turned on the Coke machine in the teachers' lounge for us. ;)
Dike-New Hartford HS - Wednesday:
Huck - 36
Paul - 29
McC - 18
Mitt - 3
All others zero.
Senior HS with about 250 students. Groups of students were shuffled in and out for 15 minutes or so. Gave presentation and took q & a. Then after lunch (chicken fajitas, spaghetti, side salad, chocolate milk) students decided whether to caucus D or R. Republicans caucused in the school library. A student for each candidate got an opportunity to speak, and when nobody spoke for McCain his rep did, :mad::mad: Only Paul, Huck and Mitt had students speak for them. Then other students were allowed to speak for their candidate, with Paul and Huck students dueling it out for 30 minutes. Huck's students kept appealing to fear, pity, and other false premise arguments.
Fun was had by all. And may I said school lunch isn't what it use to be.