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Obama The Youth Vote and MySpace.
Last night while watching the debates, I was thinking about the "youth vote". I am glad they are getting up off of their collective asses and taking part but I wonder about why they do as they do.
I remember when I first started getting into politics, being aware and caring, I was about 11 years old. My first election was 1980. I knew that reagan would be bad for this county economically, but I would have verbal fights with people my age who thought he was the greatest because he talked of hope and change (Morning In America and all that). They bought into it without knowing the substance.
When gdub first ran it was about "compassionate conservatism" and "reaching across the aisle". I think we know how all that has turned out.
Now I am not comparing Obama exactly with these two neo-cons, what I am comparing is the message and how people ride that wave of a message. Especially the young people who seem to vote with emotion and passion but with less information and history to back up their feelings.
My point about MySpace (which I hate - one reasoning being that rupert murdoch owns it) and Obama is this: MySpace is huge with the younger people because it is the thing to do, it is what everyone else is doing, it is a trend, it is "cool". Is some of that same thinking, that group think of the younger people who MUST stay in fashion or be cast out socially, what is driving some of the youth vote for Obama?
This is not a slam against the youth vote, it is just a curious observation.
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