2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Iowa Youth Caucus Tonight Shocking Results - Bernie 53%, O'Malley 24%, Hillary 15% [View all]emmadoggy
(2,142 posts)They said that the Bernie representative was this sort of funny, older hippie-type and was a lot of fun.
They had to watch all the Republican candidate videos and said Rubio's especially was really stupid, LOL. They had to do both the Republican caucus and Dem. caucus and said during the Republican part they were pretty quiet and not very excited. They said it was terrible to have to decide which Republican to vote for (because who wants to vote for ANY of them!) Then when they got to the Democratic part, they were engaged and excited, LOL. Bernie won for the Dems in their caucus. I think they said Carson won for the R's.
Their History teacher in school has been discussing politics a lot lately and is a Republican. Though we are surrounded by mostly blue counties, we are in a little island of red here. I'm really proud of how instinctively they are grasping liberal views (they are still a couple months shy of 14 years old). And from what they tell me, my son esp. has not been afraid to engage with the teacher or their peers on the issues they've been discussing. They've also been taking online political quizzes - the type that tell you how liberal or conservative you are, or whether you are R or D, or which candidates you most align with etc. They come up true blue every time. Yes, they know that both mom and dad are staunch Democrats and have heard me esp. spouting my thoughts at times, and I'm sure that influences them. But I've been pleasantly surprised to hear them talk about certain issues (that we haven't really talked about before) and they tend to come to the liberal conclusion most of the time.