If conservative parents are doing their jobs properly, their youngest voters will be perfectly competent to vote. All three of mine (18, 21, 24) will be reliable conservative votes in VA this fall, and so will their friends. they have heard their father and i discuss politics from the time they were born. They are informed, they know WHY we believe what we do, and they are able to discern which teachers/professors are liberal etc. If they don’t know anything about a particular issue, they will ask/research it. My son came home last fall from Syracuse University, asking about HYDROFRACKING, because there’s a huge uproar against it in upstate NY. My brother is a petroleum engineer who works for a well services company. My husband and i filled my son in, the best we could and then we passed him on to Uncle Michael for the rest.
Not that you need it anymore, but here is a short video on hydrofracking put out by one of the ND oil companies: http://www.northernoil.com/drilling
I dunno, xsmommy. My parents were about as conservative as it gets, but not all 5 of their progeny followed suit. Sometimes it just takes a little of life's experience to wise up. Sometimes, you just have to accept that some folks are not ever going to get it.