And the Winners are ... Bill Bradley and John McCain.

• Position: Teenage voter primary - Brief Article

For the TEEN PRIMARY 2000, The New York Times Upfront asked you to pick your favorite presidential candidate--and you did, in record numbers. More than 55,000 young people voted through paper ballots sent by snail mail and on our Web site.

The results were two runaway victories, for former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley on the Democratic side and Arizona Senator John McCain on the Republican side. Bradley garnered a huge 58 percent of the Democrat tallies, with Vice President Al Gore earning only 42 percent. McCain enjoyed an even bigger margin of victory over Texas Governor George W. Bush, taking 52 percent of the Republican vote, versus 31 percent for Bush. Former U.S. State Department official Alan Keyes came in a distant third, winning 13 percent of the Republican vote.

WHAT A DIFFERENCE

The Teen Primary results contrast sharply with the way the campaign has been going so far. Among the Democrats, Gore has been pulling steadily ahead of Bradley, and among the Republicans, Bush has been doing better than McCain. But in some cases the margin of victory for Bush has been small enough that teens could have made...