[gridlock]

In fact, exit polls said young people were the only age bracket to break for Kerry, 54-45.

Kerry was going to need a lot more than 54/45 from the youth vote if he was going to win. So it turns out that young people did vote, but an awful lot of them voted wrong...

[AntiGuv]

The League of Independent Voters, for example, has published an online state-by-state guide so progressive young people can form voting blocs—even for local school-board candidates.

LOL That's not their formal name: The League of Pissed Off Voters. (seriously!)

[L98Fiero]

Yep, more youth voters voted in this election than in 2000. The same can be said for EVERY segment of the population.

What is ommitted, however, is that the percentage of the youth vote is still small at less than 10% of all votes cast, about the same as in 2000.

[k2blader]

Ping.

[mvpel]

For some unfathomable reason I got a "Rock the Vote" e-mail which said that there was a 51% turnout among youth voters. So much for that propaganda.

[k2blader]

“Those little bastards betrayed us again."

Let me guess. The guy who said this is a Dem.

[t_skoz]

ping!

[VoiceOfBruck]

I'd prefer that nobody besides me vote in the next election.

[FourtySeven]

Good for showing exit polls aren't the infallable source some radical leftists would have us believe.

[spodefly]

This article has found a nice way of spinning the youth vote to comfort the activists.

The numbers of youth voters increased -- 20.9 million in 2004 vs. 16 million in 2000. And this, according to the article is the result of the diligent efforts of the (predominately left wing) 'get out the vote' organizations targeting youth. But the overall percentage of youth voters was the same in this election as in 2000 at 17%.

The overall turnout in this election for all ages was up from 2000 at the same percentage as the youth vote. So why did ~17% more non-youths vote in this election? Or did P Diddy influence the +30 crowd too?

[Ryan Spock]

[LibertarianInExile]

For some reason, people are very quick to fall back into assuming that young people are lazy and apathetic,” Donovan says.

Gee, why would that be? Perpetuating stereotypes isn't something the media does at all. /sarcasm

Unless it comes to Gen X, or the GOP, of course.