Reply #2: the sources I've read haven't said the youth vote hasn't materialized. [View All]

[NoodleBoy]

In fact, the youth vote was the only catagory in which John Kerry increased his overall percentage from Al Gore's performance, and 2006 was a pivotal year for youth turnout.

Matalin is a little bit right though-- some of my campaign staffer friends have said Obama lost NH because his youth coordinator stupidly didn't do a single thing to reach out to non-college youth, costing him that election where in Iowa that demographic contributed to his margin of victory.