Kids and politics

These are actual "explanations" of the political process by Grade School kids.

"Universal suffrage means that even the illegible get to vote."
"Calling a person a runner-up is a polite way of saying you lost."

"The difference between a king and a president is that a king is the son of his father but the president is not."

"It is possible to get a majority of electoral votes without getting the majority of popular votes. Anyone who can ever understand how this works gets to be president."

"Some of our presidents never did much else and are famous only because they became president."

"The president has the power to appoint and disappoint the members of his cabinet."

"The campaign is when the candidate tells everybody what he stands for and the election is when the voters tell if they can stand for his being elected."

"The winning candidate is elected and inoculated."

"In January, the president makes his Inaugural Address after he has been sworn at."

"Once he is elected, the president has to work 24 hours a day until he finds out what he is supposed to do."

"The nominees are usually candidates or campaigners although I have heard them called other things."

"Popular votes tell who is the most popular. Electoral votes tell who is the most elected."

"The jobs of delegates is to resent their states."

"Noncommittal is to be able to talk and talk without saying anything."

"A dark horse is a candidate that the delegates don't know enough about to dislike him."

"A split ticket is when you don't like any of them on the ticket so you tear it up."

"Political science is to figure out what makes candidates act that way."

"When they talk about the most promising presidential candidate, they mean the one who can think of the most things to promise."

"Political strategy is when you don't let people know you have run out of ideas and keep shouting anyway."

"A candidate should always renounce his words carefully."

"One of the mainest rules of campaigning is you are not allowed to go on a whistle-stop tour without a train."

"Campaigns give us a great deal of happiness by their finally ending."