I mean, I wouldn't say nineteen year old me is all that mature here and skeleton me is only barely mature enough to hold down a job. I'm proud of skeleme though, I mean, he's got plans. Seventeen's kind of a weird line even in this world. Like in this country you're old enough to be told to act your age and stop making puns but you don't really have any power. Clearly you need to just turn yourself into a talking hat.
They've got a couple years until then. And this is why they've got the internet, dude, just check CNN.com or whatever. Also 90% of polls are extremely unscientific and biased so I wouldn't put much stock in them. Just from a scientific point of view. Granted polling isn't really what I do so, y'know. Take it with a grain of salt. You're always gonna want to protect them from everything even when you can't and all you can do is watch the video feed because you're too useless to do anything and at this age you can, which is pretty fortunate. I wouldn't worry about the news too much, just go play with them and check in after they've gone to bed.