Senator Obama is the way forward: Senator Clinton and her Republican colleagues are the status quo at best but more than likely a step backwards.

2008 could be the year of the youth vote

Repeat.

hehe, oldster.

They added a polling place for me - it's in my community's clubhouse!

Walk on over, vote, take a dip in the pool....

Voting should always be like that.

/go-bama, go-bama, go-bama!

Tell those kids to get off my lawn too.

/voting for Obama

Car_Ramrod: 2008 could be the year of the youth vote

Repeat.

No shiat. Someone wheels out this tired old story every 4 years.

filth: No shiat. Someone wheels out this tired old story every 4 years.

This time there's something to it. There's a candidate young people might want to vote FOR instead of just being encouraged to go in and vote AGAINST somebody. That hasn't happened since '92.

If the Dems nominate Obama, the youth vote will increase this year. By how much, I don't know. I'm guessing 3-5%.

If the Dems nominate Clinton, the youth vote will decrease.

Rev. Skarekroe: filth: No shiat. Someone wheels out this tired old story every 4 years.

This time there's something to it. There's a candidate young people might want to vote FOR instead of just being encouraged to go in and vote AGAINST somebody. That hasn't happened since '92.

I disagree.

Rev. Skarekroe [TotalFark] Quote 2008-01-31 04:57:20 PM
filth: No shiat. Someone wheels out this tired old story every 4 years.

This time there's something to it. There's a candidate young people might want to vote FOR instead of just being encouraged to go in and vote AGAINST somebody. That hasn't happened since '92.


Agreed. 2004 LOOKED like the year of the youth vote when Howard Dean was ahead, but once he lost to boring old John Kerry no one came out.

If Dean had gotten the nomination the youth vote would have gone up (he may still have lost, but that is another question)

If Hillary gets the nomination youth vote will fall (and she will lose either way)

If Obama gets it though I'd bet 100 dollars the youth vote will rise by several percentage points. Dude is the JFK of 2000s. Young people love him.

The only reason this story sounds like a repeat is because the person young people are excited about NEVER GETS THE NOMINATION.

I've noticed a trend in that every canidate that relies on the 'youth vote' ends up losing. Old people just don't have anything better to do.

I dunno about you guys but when the baby boomers finally die off I say we hold the world's largest Fark drinking party and start pissing on some graves. Stupid old people, trying to vote for some frigid fascist biatch.

/Gobama

Rev. Skarekroe: This time there's something to it. There's a candidate young people might want to vote FOR instead of just being encouraged to go in and vote AGAINST somebody. That hasn't happened since '92.

You mean Obama isn't just campaigning on the whole "I am not George W Bush" platform?

He might not be a sad sack like Kerry, but his campaign does lack some substance IMO.

/Hillary & Bill... still seem like the inevitable candidate-couple

Seabon: I've noticed a trend in that every canidate that relies on the 'youth vote' ends up losing. Old people just don't have anything better to do.

I didn't vote in 2006 because I had two midterms on election day. What the fark kind of political science professors schedule midterms on election day?

I'm under 25, and I'm voting for Obama in my state primary, and I'll sure as hell vote for him in the election if he gets the nom.

I'm not alone... I know a lot of people who are ready to do the same thing. Meanwhile, four years ago, no one gave a fark.

I actually saw a recruitment booth on campus yesterday with probably 30-40 people there. For Obama... still haven't seen anything for any other candidate, other than four college republitards sitting behind a table for Romney.

this time the media super duper double finger cross, pinkie swears the youths will vote this time. Super duper promise.

So far the youth vote in the states that have already had their primary hasn't been anything to get excited about. Why does anyone think it is going to change for the Super Tuesday and following states? Or even the general election if Obama wins the democratic primary?

After being politically involved for many years, I have come to the conclusion that a candidate pretty much wastes their time when they focus on the youth vote.

Car_Ramrod: 2008 could be the year of the youth vote

Repeat.

THIS.

Young people don't vote. There may be a slight spike this year but as a demographic, they just don't.

Seabon If (when) Senator Obama is elected he will be the twelfth President of the US during my lifetime. If Senator Clinton becomes the nominee of the Democratic Party I will vote against her.

Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson*, Nixon*, Ford*, Carter*, Reagan*, Bush*, Clinton, Bush

*POTUS while I was active duty military

Republican for Obama**

**Sign in my front yard

You kids get the hell off my lawn!

filth: Rev. Skarekroe: filth: No shiat. Someone wheels out this tired old story every 4 years.

This time there's something to it. There's a candidate young people might want to vote FOR instead of just being encouraged to go in and vote AGAINST somebody. That hasn't happened since '92.

I disagree.

You are incorrect, sir. People aren't just predicting it. This time it's actually happening, in part for the stated reasons. Obama has a way of reaching even the cynical among us, and making a person want to be involved in the process.

dont they say this every farking election? it's horseshiat. the only people who vote are rich, white and old

Carter redux.

Reap what you sow.

Change?

Like jumping out of the frying pan?

Can we make this the debate thread????

Weeners: "There's only one rule tonight: there are no rules." And then he proceeds to tell the rest of the rules. Hilarious

submitter: Now, if they can only figure out where the polls are and why that oldster is asking them to sign some book

Amusingly enough, my neighborhood polling place is actually located in a senior citizens' community center.

But I am actually one of these apparently elusive 20-somethings who votes.

On a another note, I thought it was funny that the picture accompanying the article is of a Young Republican at UC Berkeley of all places. That has to be a rare species.

Hahahahah. Weeners. You got me good, Farkles.

RockIsDead: Carter redux.

Reap what you sow.

Carter was elected on the evangelical vote, being one of the last Democrats to do well in the South.

Let's see: evangelical Christian, more socially liberal - seems like the "Jimmy Carter" in this race is Mike Huckabee.

HOLY SHIATE- Was that Andy from The Office??? Please say I wasn't the only one that saw that.

FuriousGeorge945: I didn't vote in 2006 because I had two midterms on election day. What the fark kind of political science professors schedule midterms on election day?

Maybe they were teaching you an elaborate lesson in vote suppression tactics.

Maybe this year, I won't be dropping the average voting age at my polling place to 99 and 1/2 when I walk in.

LITERS NEED A DEBATE THREAD!

Looks like they're going to play nice when it's only 1 on 1.

THROW AN ELBOW!

Mandated health insurance when you don't want it & don't use it = a new tax. It's simple as that.

How many bullets is she going to make us bite? How much of her nanny shiat is she going to force on us?
She's a farking tyrant.

Nestea Plunge

Where should I send the bill for the new keyboard/LCD/khakis?


/didn't see it coming
//still laughing
///watch Before The Devil Knows You're Dead. trust me.

Did someone just "whoo" for C-SPAN?

Now That's What I Call a Taco!: Did someone just "whoo" for C-SPAN?

represent!

is Obama winning? i always change the channel when Hilary talks, so i can't tell...

Doc Daneeka: Maybe they were teaching you an elaborate lesson in vote suppression tactics.

For all the hoopla about voting, the powers that be don't want the unwashed plebes voting. I have two simple steps that would fix 3/4 of the voting problems and it would take about a day.

1. Make Election Day a national holiday. fark, get rid of President's Day or Columbus Day or something. Hell you'd be doing more for black people trading MLK Day for it.

2. Revoke corporate personhood. No more free speech protection for corporations. If you want to donate, donate personally. No constitutional rights for corporations.

#2 is too revolutionary to ever happen without an actual revolution, but #1 could be done quick and easy. I'm surprised there isn't some sort of outcry or campaign to make it happen. They couldn't possibly say it wasn't important enough.

Now That's What I Call a Taco!: Mandated health insurance when you don't want it & don't use it = a new tax. It's simple as that.

You're part of the problem. Healthcare costs are up because stupid people like you refuse to take personal responsibility and buy health insurance.

/I kid
//Hillary's stupid and out of touch
///Obama '08 :D

Wombatzu: is Obama winning? i always change the channel when Hilary talks, so i can't tell...

The first time he talks, he always over-thinks a little, but he found his smoothment.

#3 and 4 if you're interested.

3. Open source voting software. shiat it's just a damn incremental counter and a couple arrays.

4. Print a receipt, which voter looks at then drops in ballot box. Should make hand recounts easy peasy if somehow the magical open source system developed untimely "flaws" around election day.

Hillary talks on and on and on..

themindiswatching: HA! I actually have insurance, btw, even though I am unbreakable.

/OW!!! A hangnail!!!
//Off to the ER...

I think Hillary's thoughts are like cannibalistic monkeys infected with the rage, I give her credit for not twitching when she speaks.

It's a good thing THERE ARE NO RULES tonight, because Hillary isn't answering the questions she's given.

Lou Dobbs is having a seizure somewhere right now. A racist, racist seizure.

Wtf was with the Jesus Christ and good Samaritan business from Hillary? What does that have to do with illegal immigration legislature?

Desperate grab for the evangelical vote, mayhaps?

Well played by Obama here- jab with the flip fopper charge, then dodge and weave with the, "this just shows what a tough issue this is."