Morris on tv today said that the old models of “likely voters” don’t mean much this year because of the age distribution of the voters’ preferences, with the young going to Obama and the older people to McCain; he said that there is no way to gauge what that young-people turnout will be. I hope that doesn’t mean that the historical spread between registered voters and likely voters is in danger, b/c there are heck of a lot more registered voters (mostly Obama-niks) who don’t vote than likely voters who don’t vote and that turnout might be a key to the election.
There’s an age-old word for candidates who rely on young people to vote: losers.