[Poohbah]

I remember what I was like at 14. I was much better informed than my peers...but there is no way in hell that I can say I was mature enough to vote.

[oldtimer]

Californistan needs more rat voters.

Can you imagine what kind of voter turnout the NEA could produce.

Absolutely appalling what is happening to this Country.

[RightWhale]

I remember what I was like at 14.

At 8 I was worried that Stevenson would win and it was a great relief when Ike won. I had to ask what 'I like Ike' meant while out trick 'r treating in the neighborhood. Guess the neighbors thought it was cute I would ask about Eisenhower. I couldn't believe that so many didn't seem to know there was an election coming up or that Truman wasn't on the ballot.

[B-bone]

That reminds me of the old saying (often times attributed to Churchill):

If you are not a liberal at 20, you have no heart.
If you are not conservative at 40, you have no brain.

As a McGovern voting 18 year old, this proposal should never see the light of day.

[okie01]

"I remember what I was like when I was 14. I was much better informed than my peers..."

Hell, if you were like most 14-yr olds, you thought you were better informed than your parents. Your peers, of course, were all better informed than their parents.

And had matters of state been left to those of us who knew it all when we were 14, the President of the United States would've been Elvis Presley.

Now that I think about it, Elvis might've been an improvement on LBJ...

[BOOTSTICK]

So let the public schools teach civics and hold mock elections as I did as a child growing up in the 1960's, instead of this 1/2,1/4 vote drivil.