The 2008 Electoral Map if only Young People Voted

[Ted King]

[Greg the dogsitter]

Whippersnappers!!

[vision63]

Ragamuffins!

[wurm]

Get off my lawn!

[Mac-A-Matic]

Probably because the "young people" don't have anything to lose yet.

Except their idealism.

[freeradical]

Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore has made some interesting and controversial comments about suffrage in the past. Some of it even makes sense. IIRC, he feels that married working peoples vote should count more than the young or the old. The young are basically to dumb to vote - who here was really informed at age 18. And then you have the old folks, an incredibly powerful voting block that is able to get what ever it wants. They don't call social security the third rail of American politics for nothing...

[lafinfil]

Didn't we already try that Three-Fifths Compromise thing ?

Guess we could always amend that "all men are created equal" part of the Constitution.

[Mike Sellers]

Mac-A-Matic wrote:
Probably because the "young people" don't have anything to lose yet.

Except their idealism.

Or maybe they saw the national debt and realized just how much they stand to lose.

[Doc]

freeradical wrote:
...The young are basically to dumb to vote - who here was really informed at age 18...

I was a member of the JCC and Amnesty International (back when that meant something). I damned well knew the issues inside and out.

[mikeylikesit]

Mac-A-Matic wrote:
Probably because the "young people" don't have anything to lose yet.

Except their idealism.

A 28-year old vet has nothing to lose? It didn't say 18-19-year olds, it said 18-29-year olds. Most of those in the younger segment don't vote. Voter participation rises with age so this statistic is weighted toward those in the upper end.

As to losing their idealism, most never had any. Too bad your neo-cons didn't lose their idealism before grabbing power, huh?