America, Pick up -- It's Your Future Calling: A 15 Year Old's Perspective

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cassie-goldring/america-pick-up---its-you_b_141873.html

America, Pick up -- It's Your Future Calling: A 15 Year Old's Perspective
Cassie Goldring

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The Obama campaign team used two main components to separate its campaign from all the rest, making it groundbreaking. These are:

1. The Internet
2. The youth

The Internet played an enormous role in Obama's campaign. In present society, the Internet is a HUGE element in the lives of everyday Americans of all ages, but specifically the youth. By allowing people to become involved through the web, it not only modernized the way the campaign was run, but it also became easily accessible to all who are interested. This is where the youth enters the picture.

Kids are constantly checking their Facebook pages, blackberries, computers, YouTube; they are always somehow connected to the Internet at all times. The Obama campaign took advantage of this, advertised and publicized it, and found ways to notify the youth about how they too could become involved in the campaign. For example, it was possible for one to go online, create an account, obtain the phone numbers from undecided voters across the country, read simple directions and a script that could be altered and modified to one's own liking, and then call these voters to educate and persuade them to vote for Barack Obama.

The Obama campaign did not accept, give in, or allow itself to be manipulated or persuaded by lobbyists, the media, or false rumors. Throughout the entire election Obama, unlike McCain, stayed true to himself, his morals, and his policies displaying his genuine character to America. The campaign encouraged the youth, and anyone else, to donate any amount of money they could to help them with their fight for the presidency. This allowed people to contribute an affordable amount. When the youth in this generation's America get involved in something, they REALLY get involved; and there has never been such committed youth helping and volunteering in an election ever before in history. Obama would have never been able to even imagine sitting in the Oval Office if it weren't for his amazing and loyal young supporters.

Barack Obama has put the "United" in the "United States." He won over many previously Republican states such as Florida, Indiana and Virginia. Because of this, citizens can now come together knowing they support a common figure. The people of America have finally been able to look beyond President Obama's name and skin color, and judge him truly on the "content of his character" (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.). For example: Obama won over 44 percent of white voters. No Democrat has won a majority of white voters since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Because of this, the Republican Party will have a lot to do to prevent itself from becoming segregated from the rest of the country, since they mostly identify themselves with white social conservatives. At the same time, Obama will have to work maintain and expand the base of the new Democratic party.

The fight is not over; it has just begun. Barack Obama has inherited the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression in 1929. It will take a lot to keep us together to accomplish what we and President Obama will need to do to get our country back on track. So we should never forget these immortal words of Barack Obama:

"We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change."

Yes we can -- and yes we did!

[Libertyfirst]

1. Cassie Goldring, I want you on President Obama's staff !

If even half of the folks two, three, four and five times your age were as smart as you I would sleep better at night. You are a clear sighted idealist with an understanding of politics.