The problem is that McCain is old, mean and nasty. The younger voters just aren’t going to be drawn to him. They want young, pleasant and vapid.
The younger voters are saying, we just want to have fun, and Obama is saying, Don’t worry, be Happy.
Perhaps you missed the fact that young voters were attracted to Ron Paul in surprising numbers.
and Ron Paul is older than John McCain
but he's not "mean and nasty"
On the other hand, the adults may like the idea of a grouchy, mean faced maverick facing people like Amanutjob, terrorists, and antiAmerican leaders.
Like Reagan, McCain represents the "who knows what he will do if we provocate him" to the foreign rifraff. In other words, he scares them.
I have been against McCain from the start but will have to vote for him. Yesterday's house refusal to act on the surveillance bill, walk out of Iraq, let the terrorists have us; I must vote McCain.