Young Activists Furious With Clinton, Dodd Over Remarks On College Students

Politico:

Many youth activists are furious with the campaigns of Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) for suggesting that college students who did not grow up in Iowa should not caucus there in January -- and they are delivering that message both publicly and privately.

"It's terrible to have candidates making misleading statements about whether or not students can caucus," said Alexandra Acker, executive director of the Young Democrats of America.

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Comments

[poopdeck]

What an ocean of difference separates the "young activists" of the Vietnam War era from these "young activists" of today. The former went into the streets by the thousands to stop the war and be beaten by police and guards. The latter are "angry at Clinton and Dodd". Cowards they are.

[KRANKY]

There is a mass murderer living in OUR White House.
This other stuff is a sideshow.
Kucinich will apply the Constitution and the rule of law. The others will not.

KUCINICH/AMERICA 2008!

[CapitalCat]

Let me get this straight: Hillary Clinton, the pride of Illinois, Arkansas and New York, is complaining about other people being carpetbaggers?

[Agentprovokatur]

Every student who can legally participate should do so, if for no other reason than to shake up the doddering status quo that the current primary system is. The idea that Iowa, a puny state that does not represent the country in any way shape or form, demographically or economy-wise is given such power and prominence in the process of selecting the leader of the free world is beyond ridiculous. Why should a bunch of white, 65 year old farmers whose only connection to 21 st Century America is that they know what the internet is, be given such a disproportionate say in that selection process.

If you really want to know who will be the candidates and save us all a bunch of time, money and trouble the first primary should be a "Super Day" with California, New York, Florida, Texas and Illinois. One day and it would be over and we could cut all this tail wagging the dog crap.

So all you out of state students who can - GO PARTICIPATE and stir things up! Besides didn't Mitt Romney show us how it's done with his carpet bagging straw polls or whatever they were?

[Pdubya]

Only two candidates are not members of the CFR. Kucinich and Paul. Is it coincidence that they are being blacked out?

Here are the real numbers of straw polls (read voter turnout)

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd328.htm

[lovethesinner]

Just another opportunity for Hillary, (and a surprising number of the lower tier candidates) to use a play from the Republican election handbook.

Everybody knows the student demographic favors Obama and Edwards almost exclusively.

Students are always blamed for not turning out for elections but the elections are on school days, and they are not excused from class like the rest of the electorate is excused from work to go vote.

Plus, for the most part, those same kids are living away from home. (In most cases, being away from home with an opportunity to finally think for yourself is the only reason kids go to college.)

So, Hillary provides for their first experience with civic responsibility a call to stay home? Don't get involved?

If we really wanted to have fair, full partisipation in our government, elections would be held in early August, over a weekend, and results wouldn't be allowed to be released until all the polls closed.

That way the highest number of people would be at home, (in between vacations and returning to school,) they would have an opportunity to clearly weigh the issues (instead of being terrorized by images of Wolves, and bin Laden at the last minute) and we could all go to bed at night instead of waiting up until all hours, watching exit polls, (knowing that while most of the people back east are asleep, some are stuffing the box.)

But, lawmakers aren't interested in our partisipation. They only want to hang on to power.

Candidates who ask for less partisipation in our democratic process aren't running to lead the people, they're running to TAKE CONTROL OF THEM.

[MRb1000]

Here is something else that backfired in Hillary's face. Poor judgement is the key here. Look how she is running her campaign. She running it like a rookie. Yeah, experience count, but being a fool shows. If this is how she would run the country please we are in for a depression of change, hope. What a shame. She would have been a good choice. However, I think it is over for her. BY BY

[watchingthings]

If you think Hillary is muzzling you now....just waite till she's elected President. Then she'll show you muzzling like you'd have never dreamt it.

[Qbear]

"Yepsen himself admits that it’s legal for any student at a four-year college in Iowa to vote. The Iowa secretary of state posts information on how students can caucus from their campus address."

END OF DISCUSSION

let them caucus

[DBlake]

Who won the Des Moines Register Democratic Debate in Iowa?

http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=1296
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[conservativeoriginalist]

I don't like Iowa's election laws that allow people from other states to vote if they promise to consider moving to Iowa in the future. I don't put any stock into the Iowa caucus as a bellwether, being its one of the states that is riddled with corruption of the votes.

[dijo]

What Hillary and Dodd didn't take into consideration...the best way to get youth to vote is to tell them they can't or shouldn't.
I guess Obama should thank them.