Who will rock the youth vote?

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | October 2nd,2005 | Salena Zito

[Bommer]

I don't believe Democraps look for the youth vote. In truth their base is comprised of the "Moron Vote", where simple minded talking point morons vote for them. All though the leaders are Pseudo intellectuals, the voting base is comprised mostly of dimwits! With todays educational system, the pool of dimwits are rich coming out of high school, hense the theory of the youth vote! In reality, its the moron base they seek!

[Vision]

Who will rock the youth vote?

How about something dramatic like "Vote or Die". That's genius!

[NickatNite2003]

I disagree..i think a *lot* more
young people voted Republican in '04
than the Democrats ever expected. Sick
of the sickness in the Democrat
Culture of Death.

[AndrewB]

Most analysts will concede that the Democratic Party's decline began the day it lost the middle class. With that traditional voting bloc gone, so went its low-hanging fruit -- genetically engineered youth who vote as their parents do.

Not too sure about that. When I was 20 I thought Reagan was evil incarnate. Luckily for America, I never voted until I was 30...and a lot smarter.

[jmaroneps37]

Nobody will. All that bull shiite about the "Youth Vote" was just another ratmedia/rat figment of the imagination. On that count the WERE NOT LYING. They really believed it was coming to frenchie's rescue and the were really surprised when it didn't arrive (Probably because the drugged out morons who went to frenchie's BIG RALLIES ONM CAMPI AFTER CAMPI ) slept through Election day as they always have and always will. Politics means a recognition that there are things in this universe that are larger and more important then ourselves. Being barely above children themselves, the "Youths" don't care about anything but themselves. Politics to them are meaningless.

[Katya]

"The youth vote is irrelevant in modern elections. Only the MSM and its desire to "relive its youth" is interested in the promotion of the youth vote."

Precisely, because in the end the vaunted youth don't bother to vote. We've also learned even the promoters of the youth vote i.e."P-Diddy and his Vote or Die" campaign in '04 and Ben Afflek in 2000 are guilty of that one crucial act for campaign victory....
They forget or couldn't be bothered to vote.

[Dan from Michigan]

The only youth vote that went bigtime democrat was the college towns(and most students are registered at their parents' house). I'll bet money that Bush actually won the youth vote of those who don't live in college towns - since he increased his margins in all areas outside of there and places like Detroit.

I was independent at 18, and became republican at 22.

[randog]

The youth vote is irrelevant in modern elections.

If you look at the last prez election, that's largely true, except for one group--young christian voters. Largely ignored by the MSM pre-election (pdiddy makes for better copy and video) they did mention it post-election, when they did a post-mortem on the "rock the vote" debacle. The Religious Right did a bang-up job on getting their youth vote out.

[TalBlack]

"...If you look at the red/blue map, you find that the Democrats win not only the inner..."

once, about 45 years ago, the dems had a huge chunk of the "greatest generation" who had won the war and come home and were open to idealistic rhetoric after the flat out horror of the war years. Now, indeed, the dems have the dependant poor and the guilty (I suppose) rich...and their (the Dems) "ideals" from Hell.

[wardaddy]

Can't speak for Aggies but nationwide, the 18-29 age demographic is the only one the Libs carried and by 9 points. This whole "youth are more conservative than their parents" is an unsubstantiated myth. Much like the long held myth that the youth of the 60s and early 70s were vast majority raging yippies against the war. Or that the 80s under Reagan were the decade of greed. It's a all spin.

It's no surprise kids are more liberal; youth is a time of idealism and naivete.

Table 3 - Support for Presidential Candidates
Among Voters Age 18-29


National Results
2004
George Bush 44%
John Kerry 54%
Ralph Nader 1%


2000
George Bush 46.2%
Al Gore 47.6%
Ralph Nader 4.7%


1996
Bill Clinton 52.8%
Robert Dole 34.4%
Ross Perot 10.4%


1992
Bill Clinton 43.5%
George Bush Sr 34.3%
Ross Perot 22.2%

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

dems have the dependant poor and the guilty (I suppose) rich

"Guilty" isn't the right word. It takes arrogance to blame the middle class for not doing what the rich can afford to do - patronize the "poor." The middle class can't afford to patronize "the poor," and has too much pride to accept being patronized by the rich and - if you really get down to it - by "black spokesmen" on "moral" grounds.