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LISBON freshman Alex Graham folds his completed ballot and stuffs it into the wooden ballot box while classmates Charlotte Mooney and Nick Huston, closest to camera, monitor the ballot box. On Tuesday, Lisbon High School took part in a student mock election as it has for the last six presidential elections.
LISBON freshman Alex Graham folds his completed ballot and stuffs it into the wooden ballot box while classmates Charlotte Mooney and Nick Huston, closest to camera, monitor the ballot box. On Tuesday, Lisbon High School took part in a student mock election as it has for the last six presidential elections.
There’s a saying here that, “as Lisbon High goes, so goes the nation.”

 
 
With 49 percent of the student body voting in its annual mock election Tuesday, Angus King and President Obama should be happy to hear that.

Students picked Obama over Republican challenger Mitt Romney with an overwhelming 64 percent of the vote. King bested the others in his race for U.S. Senate with 51 percent in a three-way race that didn’t include three independents on the Nov. 6 ballot.

Republican Charlie Summers got 28 percent and Democrat Cynthia Dill earned 20 percent.

Incumbent U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud, D-2nd District, got 68 percent to Republican challenger Kevin Raye’s 32 percent. Same-sex marriage won 61 to 34 percent.

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On bonds, the $11.3 million University of Maine System package and the $51.5 million package for infrastructure improvements failed. Students passed the other bond measures.

Lisbon students correctly picked Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996 and Obama in 2008. In 2000, 49.3 percent voted for Vice President Al Gore, 49.1 percent for Texas Gov. George W. Bush. In 2004, they narrowly picked U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., over President Bush.

Students in 240 elementary, middle and high school students across the state had planned to cast mock ballots Tuesday.

Schools often submit their results to the secretary of state’s office, which will post them on its website early next week.


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