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.
The last 2 Presidential elections had the media, Hollywood (including music) and the Democrats all working hard to win the youth vote. In the end, it did little good.
I would not take that one to the bank. History has a nasty way of repeating itself, (think 1960's) Kids lack life experiences, making them easy marks for liberal claptrap, tend to align themselves with non-mainstream ideologies, and under the right condition the liberals can get lots of them to the polls.
This article has shades of "the nation is moving to the left" that was repeated constantly before the last election showed them otherwise. This paper is just hoping that if it plants the seed people will believe it. Quite frankly, if these kids are squishy on the gay issue and not so pro-abortion, etc., odds are they are not going to vote Democrat for long unless the party, itself, changes.
The youth vote is irrelevant in modern elections.
No vote is irrelevant in this country.
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.
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.