[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?

[usflagwaver]

I was also wondering how the military vote was counted. A large percentage of the military voters are within these age brackets. I think that in this election, a larger than normal percentage of the military voted, therefore, increasing the youth vote, although I think they were more influenced by their scorn of John Kerry as Commander In Chief than by anything that P Diddy said.