While we pore over the results from Iowa and turn to New Hampshire, the clear winners for the 2008 presidential election are young voters. Dismissed by some as being too cynical to care and disenfranchised by others who discouraged them from returning early from Christmas vacation to vote, young voters made a decisive impact on the presidential race in Iowa. From young Democrats and college Republicans to non-partisan "rock the caucus" participants, a wave of young voters made their voices heard tonight.
While we await Iowa City results, we already know that on the Democratic side, a historic 22% of caucus-goers were under 30 -- matching the 22% of caucus-goers aged 65 and over. This means that ALL presidential contenders will have to connect with the aspirations of young people and listen to the voices of the future of America. Candidates beware: the youth vote is stronger than ever and is a force to be reckoned with in the primaries and caucuses ahead. The campaigns must be tech-savvy, youth-friendly, and otherwise inclusive of this new generation of voters. Rock on, young voters -- tonight is your victory. We'll see you in New Hampshire!
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Mother, like every one of my Iowa relatives, would be happy to vote for any one of the Dems.
Her second choice was Edwards, btw, and she admits Edward's stances on corporate power and health care are more defined than are Obama's. But... my Irish-Catholic mother went for Obama because of a vision she has of the sigh of relief the world will breath the morning after America elects this story, the Obama story, to the American Presidency.
My mother is a student of Lincoln and thinks Obama the real, American deal. "If Lincoln were re-incarnated, not that i believe in that, wouldn't he be just like Obama?"
(She wants to see Edwards be Secretary of Labor so he has more time to spend with his wife. This is the way old ladies in Iowa think. So dear.)
Impeach Bush and Cheney in 2008.
And tell your mom I said so. Or it is SHE also who is violating her duty under the Constitution.
There is a very active large number of Democratic voters in Iowa offset by a number of conservative agricultural interests and evangelicals but this is also the case in several blue states like Michigan and Wisconsin and no one calls these states Red states.
RJ Crane
topplebush.com
The Youth Vote = Suckers.
"The Youth Vote" has no clue the Democrats sold out " the Youth Vote" long ago at the 1968 Chicago Convention. The Democratic machine will endorse someone like Obama who is charismatic but no real threat to Corporate control and will play ball, but wouldn't dream of endorsing someone like Kucinich ,Ron Paul, a Socialist, or Green, who understand what's REALLY going on, which is that America is under the control of an International Banking Cartel who pull the strings of small players like Obama, Clinton, Huckabee, and Bush through whatever means necessary.
Notice Bush kissing ex-World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz's butt ?
There are reasons. Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were the only two Presidents who really understood Banking.
Young people got more involved in the 60's because the war directly involved them via the draft. The Thug party would kill themselves to keep a draft from happening because they then know the young people would get even MORE involved in politics and the Thugs would lose even MORE seat in the congress in both houses.
By the way, Christine, why won't your mother take on administration and show some spine. Seems like everytime we turn around she and Reid are caving like little girls instead of doing what the voters voted them into power to do and that was take on these jerks? I'm voting for whomever runs against her in the Democratic Party/
"Time for a Change" - Dewey again wove the main themes and catch words of his campaign, from the base of his continual "It's time for a change." ...
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,885738,00.html - 36k
Can't think of something original, so just keep up the mantra: time for a change, time for a change, time for a change. Some changes are not necessarily for the better, as with Obama. Some nitwits will actually believe there will be a change for the good.
Most of the young people I know don't care enough about politics to bother to vote.
Let's not let one rural state's primary predict the voting activity of our nation's youth. They may talk about Rocking the Vote, but they also talk about Paris Hilton and Britney Spears like they're personal friends.
If today's youth were REALLY that engaged in politics, we'd have anti-war protests like we did during the Vietnam era.
If I find any solace in the results it is that John Edwards captured the most important demographic segment traditionally, the 45 to 60 vote. But these are not traditional times even for an untraditional candidate like John Edwards.
By the way, Ms. Pelosi please tell your mother to put impeachment back on the table. I will not support her re-election and I live in San Francisco.
America should congratulate Iowans for doing their duty again, that is, picking the worst possible Democratic candidate, as they have done frequently including John Kerry in 2004. Part of the problem is the crazy Iowa caucus system, but the big factor is allowing Republicans to help pick the Democrat who they think is easiest to defeat. Someday, just maybe, America will have a primary system where the real swing states (right now FLORIDA and OHIO) decide who the candidate is? Of course, that would be logical, meaningful and ridiculous. Now instead, we get the government we deserve!