On the confusing CBS show Kid Nation — the one where children run their own little leper colony and say silly kid things (i.e. Larry Craig’s #1 weekly TiVo choice) — the kids’ city-state held council elections last night and winners were determined by which team could properly arrange the order of recent U.S. presidents. After her team won, Kelsey, 11, compared the Kid Nation political scene to that of the U.S. with this deft analysis: “Look at George W. Bush — he’s not smart at all but he won the U.S. presidency two times in a row.” The latent subtext, of course, being that Al Gore and John Kerry have failed America’s youth.

Kid Nation [CBS]