You are missing the point. “Progressives” work from emotion. The more people they can get to vote from emotion, rather than experience and reason, then the better chance they have of gaining power.
Younger folks fill that bill just fine, thank you.
Read this for an eye opener:
http://www.pierretristam.com/Bobst/08/c102008.htm
“In other words, high school students are in a better position to cast an open-minded vote, and certainly one less burdened by the prejudices of history and ideology, than their elders.
In that case, why stop at 16 (as in Austria, Brazil and Nicaragua)? Why not 14, 10 or 8? Personally, I have no objection to anyone of high school age automatically having the right to vote, or anyone who files taxes, or anyone younger than 14 who passes an adult citizenship test.”
I was of the understanding Obama was just going to talk to the grade school kids... and they will still be too young to vote for him in 2012...