D.C. kids love Mitt? (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

If it were left to the nation’s kids, who would they vote to elect president? According to Scholastic, which sponsored a mock election in which 250,000 students across the country cast ballots for president, 51 percent would side with giving President Obama a second term, while Mitt Romney would get 45 percent of the youth vote.

Not surprisingly, Obama won heavily Democratic D.C., but more students voted for Romney than we can safely guess real voters will. According to Scholastic, 63 percent of the students in D.C. that voted chose Obama, while 33 percent went for Romney and four percent for another candidate. In real life, Republicans haven’t exceeded 10 percent in D.C. over the last 12 years; the best they did was in 2004, attracting 9.34 percent of the vote.

So are students more likely to lean Republicans? Are they sick of that slacking 47 percent too? Maybe they’re tired of the slumping economy and pissed off that Obama hasn’t bombed Iran yet, or already stressed out that they probably won’t benefit from Social Security once they retire in 2075. But has anyone told them what he’ll do to Big Bird? Or that he’ll repeal the one program that lets them stay on their parents health insurance until they’re 26?

This is why kids can’t vote. They just don’t know what’s best for them.