The 18 to 24 Year Old Crowd.....VOTE

[rsmith6621]

When I worked on the Kerry campaign here in Seattle I worked with a couple of individuals for two weekend to get the MTV 18-24 crowd registered to vote in the 2004 election......Well after the election was over and the STATS were generated we discovered that less than 35% of that age group casted a ballot......one of the fact that was interesting facts was if just 5% more of them would have voted we would have not had to worry about Ohio....

.....SO are you doing anything to help energize/connect this age group into the system or will they once again sit at home on election day and play their X-Box????????....

[Greeby]

1. Try scaring the shit of them: Tell em Shrub will reinstate the draft

Could work :shrug:

[Bombtrack]

2. The dumb O'Reilly-like condescendtion doesn't help anything

I don't have an X-Box or any videogame system at my apartment and I know likely non voters who don't either.

[ContraBass Black]

4. But what do 18-24 year olds do with their time but twiddle their joysticks

And listen to that Godless rock n' roll music?

[YOY]

7. ContraBass Black...are you possessed by the spirit of Mr. Benchley?

The dead have risen!!!

[ContraBass Black]

13. It lives!

[acmejack]

5. Condescension?

Vote or be drafted, very simple really. Nothing condescending about it, my young friend.

[Justice Is Comin]

3. I think this could easily be record turn out numbers of Democrats.

This age group is being jack rolled by the republicans, especially on doubling the college tuition.

[Selatius]

6. Actually, I believe the 2004 elections saw the highest turnout in years

among the 18 to 24 year-olds. The clear majority of them voted for John Kerry.

I also voted for Kerry, and I am in that age group, but in general, I would say the reason why it was 35% and not, say, 15 or 20 percent was because of, well, the fucking war in Iraq. That scared some of the younger voters, especially those of draft age. There was rumor of a possible draft in the not-too-distant future. That probably motivated some number of them to vote.

Nobody wants to be the last man to die for a mistake.

[TahitiNut]

8. See ...

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TahitiNut/338

[Ariana Celeste]

9. Maybe talk to them like they are adults...

and not just dumbass kids who only "play their X-Box". :shrug:

[DFLer4edu]

11. What a theory, ask us to vote without insulting our intelligence

It might just work. btw apathy isn't just a problem with 18 to 24 year olds. The percentage of Americans that vote in presidential elections is around 55%. More people my age should vote. It isn't surprising though that so few young people vote, considering that politicians of both parties are willing to mortgage our future to gain baby boomer votes.

[Ariana Celeste]

12. precisely...

I'm 21... Most of the twenty-somethings I know vote... and the ones that don't vote- it isn't because they don't care. It's because they don't like Dems or Repubs, and don't see much of a difference between them.

[lcordero2]

10. they are a lot smarter than you think

With as many of them that don't vote I think that they don't ever want to legitimize the government ever.