City! School children taking part in the Scholastic kids election have predicted the President correctly every year since 1940, apart from twice. The Takeaways culture correspondent Mary Elizabeth Williams went on assignment in New York to investigate how coffee cups, Halloween masks and school children are predicting the outcome of the 2008 election. Produced by Femi Oke and Jennifer Hsu ... polls election 7-eleven cups coffee barack obama john mccain masks lya ferreyra scholastic kids ...