Were we lied to about the youth vote? Could be.......

They told us that the same % of youth voted as in 2k. This is true - but with the turnout increase, that same percent means a lot more!

The printed newspaper has two graphs.

One shows that among 18-29-year-olds the percentage among all voters was up since 2000, 16.8% to 18.4% in 2004; 20,996,000 ballots cast by that age group; and 51.6% of the total in that age group voted.

Another graph shows that John Kerry received 55% of all votes cast by the 18-29 year olds.

On a personally note, at the Kerry rallies I attended I noticed an age gap. In other words, there were a significant number of geezers, such as myself, and a significant number of very young eligible voters with, as I saw it, only a sprinkling of thirty and forty-somethings.

Of course this is only my personal observation and not to be taken as empirical evidence at all. Though many of my age-group peers, when I brought this up in conversation, commented that they too noticed a "generation gap," as it were.

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Youth Vote. It's critical to their agenda of destroying the Democratic Party.

You'll see lots and lots of stories of how not to count on the youth vote in elections so why bother reaching out to them in the first place.

And there was an incident at Iowa State University in Ames, IA at a remote, early voting station on campus that ran out of ballots.

I don't know if the Story County auditor's a Democrat or Republican but she weakly claimed she had no idea that the student voter turnout would be so great.

Even more need to come out next time. The important thing here is not to allow too many to become discouraged by this. The message that they can and they will make a difference if they stay involved is most important.

Shut up! Anything you do only makes it worse!

I do trust you're being sarcastic. If not..............?