On Tuesday, my colleague Amanda Carpenter made a bold confession, and suggested that I may agree: All this talk about the youth chatting Obama up online and rocking the vote and such is actually pretty... annoying. And she was right -- I sort of see where she's coming from (and I love that she admitted it might just be because she's a conservative, and McCain doesn't exactly have the millenials sold).

The rise of the "youth vote" concept has...