Okay, then the total vote was the same as 2004. This must mean that the elders are staying home or in their graves on election day.............
Did they actually show up and vote, or did someone send in a mail-in ballot with their name on it?
But I thought I heard that the level of youth voting only went up slightly, like from 15 to 18 per cent?
Watch for Democrats to push for more and more early (and easy) voting, so that you can vote for Obama by 2009 for the 2012 election.
Baloney.
I saw it first hand at my polling place. Kids and aging hippies I did not even know lived in my zip code. I wish I could have recorded their inane and clueless conversation on the election.
I noted that they seemed to only vote on the presidential race too as they took all of two seconds at the machine.
I worked the polls on Nov. 4th and I was amazed how many first time youth voters showed up. It was taking the sheep to slaughter. Had several ask if they could just vote for the president. You could tell that they just wanted to be part of the “movement”. The supervisor was a rat and she would tell these 18 year olds that they could if the wanted to just vote for the president. I knew what she was doing. Had Obama staffers out front along with an attorney all day “helping” these young voters as they came in. Are precinct had 1,100 regestered voters and is a staunch republican precinct. McCain won 57% to 43%. Too many pub’s voting for 0.
My niece tells me that students were trading votes at school. Register to vote at home and register to vote where they go to school and match them with someone who could vote in one place while they voted in the other.
Unbelievable fraud in this election and it’s going to go unpunished so it can grow even more.
However the image of “young skulls full of mush” remains...
Yeah, right and just how many times did these young people vote?
Nobody under the age of 21 should be able to vote unless in armed forces NO exceptions.
Like all of the young voters who voted for Jimmy Carter, they’ll become permanently disillusioned when reality sets in about the One.
Exchanged stupidity for apathy. Bring back apathy.
Ah yes...the American Idol generation. Vote for the style, not the substance. He talk pretty, he look good. Wait’ll they find out the new Presidential season doesn’t start in a year with a new set of contestants.
Nothing worse than a bunch of motivated idiots.
I know several of these young voters who are of the “vote and forget” variety, having been seduced by the sensation of obama the rock star and persuaded by the “bush is hitler” crowd. Unquestioningly, they went to the polls because obama seemed nice and everyone said Bush wasn’t. Low employment, even lower ambitions, and underused intelligence will guarantee that these voters will remain unengaged politically until the next election, when they may or may not be swept up in another “movement.” Though they really have no idea of what’s going on domestically or internationally, they claim to be sick and tired of the nasty tone of politics.