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November 4, 2008
Youth vote?
What youth vote? For what it’s worth, in the Hispanic neighborhood where I voted this morning, I didn’t see anyone under 35-40. Maybe Obama, by re-embracing late-60s New Leftism, underestimated how seriously his would-be supporters might internalize the Rubinesque rallying cry, “never trust anyone over thirty.” Oops. 22 Comments ::: Post a comment »RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI: http://proteinwisdom.com/wp-trackback.php?p=13600 Leave a commentIf you want to leave a feedback to this post or to some other user´s comment, simply fill out the form below. |
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Comment by Benedick on 11/4 @ 3:04 pm #
My neighborhood has lots of grad students. I saw very few of them at 7:00 this morning. But then again when I was in grad school I slept in most days. Because I could.
Plus, I was in Philly then, so going to vote was just asking for a savage attack from a Black Panther’s billy club.
Savage. Heh.
Comment by Clint on 11/4 @ 3:09 pm #
There are lots of youth wandering the streets with O! shirts, hats and pins, but this is the Peoples’ Republic of Chicago, so if you don’t vote O! then you’re racist.
Comment by Benedick on 11/4 @ 3:12 pm #
I have to go to Chicago for business Thursday. I hope the riots are under control by then.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/4 @ 3:14 pm #
If youth people vote it will be after work I think, but I don’t think they’re as eager to live in a dirty socialist kibbutz the rest of their damn lives as Baracky and his woman M’chelle seem to think, and youth people don’t listen to NPR and The Daily Show only comes on after the polls are closed. It’s a very real speed bump on the trek down dirty socialist lane I think.
Comment by gabriel on 11/4 @ 3:14 pm #
the bong alarm clock doesn’t chime in until well past 4pm
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/4 @ 3:19 pm #
The only “yutes” I saw here, in a suburb of NYC, were the children of young mothers who were voting…
Now that’s not sayin’ they didn’t turn out; only that I didn’t see any in my precinct…
Comment by Clint on 11/4 @ 3:22 pm #
Interestingly da’ Mayor was inviting people to come down the Party tonight and if they didn’t have tickets they could stand outside the “secured area” and hear the speakers and party like it’s 1999. Almost like he wants a larger crowd than the Park can really handle.
I leave it to you to suss out his motives in doing that.
Comment by Jess on 11/4 @ 3:27 pm #
Metro East, Illinois–voted at 11 AM and while I was surprised to see two young women my age working the polls (usually it’s the sweet old ladies from my neighborhood) I was the youngest voter by oh, 25 years! And I’m 30.
Comment by David R. Block on 11/4 @ 3:42 pm #
My 22 year old and 25 year old went with me to early vote in Texas. Add the wife and that’s 4 McCain votes.
So just because the youth may be voting, don’t assume that they are voting for Obambi.
Comment by Go_Fish on 11/4 @ 3:44 pm #
I was voter #245 at my precinct in suburban St. Louis at 7:30 this morning. There were probably 50 people in line behind me. Other than the Obamabot wearing an Obama “Voting Rights Team” t-shirt standing outside the polling place, I didn’t see anyone who appeared to be younger than their mid to late 20’s. I rarely do. The only time I’ve ever seen voters from 18 to 22 voting in any significant number was when I was in the Army and in college. Out here in the real world it’s mostly older people. Obama is not relying on the “youth vote”. He’s relying on the fake vote.
Comment by Squid on 11/4 @ 3:53 pm #
They’ve been pushing the early voting pretty hard, thinking that it would be a way to avoid the “too baked to vote” phenomenon. But I’m pretty sure that the country is filled with envelopes that the voters “really meant to put in the mail last week.”
Fortunately for the slackers, and as others above have remarked, these voters can count on the Obama machine to submit ballots on their behalf.
Comment by TaiChiWawa on 11/4 @ 3:57 pm #
Average age where I voted was dead. At least it smelled that way. A poll worker was trying to tell one woman that she needed to change her ballot because she had voted for every presidential candidate. True story.
Comment by LionDude on 11/4 @ 4:00 pm #
I wonder if Barry O! got confused today after he saw there was no place on the ballot to vote “present”?
Courage.
Comment by cranky-d on 11/4 @ 4:03 pm #
I saw only two “youths” at my polling place, and both were being registered on the spot. One of them had his mom there to vouch for him, though, so it was probably okay.
Comment by kelly on 11/4 @ 4:10 pm #
As I live in one of the reddest of red states, Idaho, it’s pretty damn unlikely The One gets any of our coveted four (count ‘em, four!) EVs. I voted around 8:30 this morning and things were hoppin’ but no lines. The poll workers were very young, though. Usually it’s nothing but blue hairs. A young woman with a delightful rack was very helpful in showing me how to…fill in a small oval on my ballot with a felt tip marker. Don’t know where I’d have been without her.
Comment by Pigilito on 11/4 @ 4:40 pm #
Nothing but old folks at my voting station (Ohio).
Comment by peter jackson on 11/4 @ 4:57 pm #
See, if we had an Approval Voting system instead of this stupid one-man-one-vote system, her ballot would have been perfectly fine.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 11/4 @ 5:25 pm #
Old people, with grey beards and pony tails at my polling place. But I live in a slam dunk for Obama area, so that’s the way it always is and always will be. Anyhow, I was with my 9 year old and when the two ladies at the precinct table were giving me the ballot, she blurts out, “are you getting the republican one? (she went with me during the primaries)” and I got the dreaded, “What, you’re not voting for the one!” look from both of them. Also, good old Ohio (or maybe just shitty Cuyahoga County), with the old Iowa Test voting. Fill in the oval. Completely.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 5:40 pm #
Normal crowd at my precinct — perhaps a little more busy than normal. No sign of “youths” there.
When I walked by one of the on-campus polling places that’s set up for the dorm kids, I didn’t see a single person waiting. I didn’t stick my head in to check for feet under the curtains, but there was definitely no line.
Elsewhere on campus, I saw maybe one or two “I voted” stickers on students, many more on faculty and staff types.
So… if he’s going to get any “youth vote” it won’t be from here.
Comment by Rusty on 11/4 @ 5:48 pm #
Far west Chicago suburbs, Kane County. Got to the polls at 6:30 this morning and there were two lines for 16 voting machines, about a 20 minute wait.Mostly middle aged people.
Comment by pdbuttons on 11/4 @ 7:08 pm #
will our youths all go frenchy-like?
when will the ‘burning of the cars’ commence?
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