if the backlash from the sexism

[abburdlen]

If all the sexism and raw misogyny was a factor in helping put Clinton over the top Tuesday night will comments like this fire up the Obama's teenybopper vote

What this tells me is that his campaign never thought they could beat Hillary with the loyal Dems and in the long run that will hurt him. If McCain continues to flourish he will peal away a lot of Independents and if Bloomberg were to enter the race then Obama is toast with the Independents - then having two seasoned adults competing for those same votes.

Then all Obama will have is the Boppers who as Obama's numbers go down will abandon the campaign in favor of a frat party kegger and getting laid.

Seems like the one of the narratives starting about Obama's campaign is that he won't win because 'kids' just don't take politics serious enough.

[fightindonkey]

1. Yeah, And? That Youth Vote Sure Helped Kerry

[KennedyGuy]

2. and they sure didn't show up in the numbers Obama expected in NH

[abburdlen]

4. you need some new talking points

the young don't vote may be CW but that doesn't make it so....

At least 20.9 million Americans under the age of 30 voted in 2004, an increase of 4.6 million over 2000, 1 and the turnout rate among these voters rose from about 42.3 percent to 51.6 percent, a sharp rise of 9.3 percentage points, according to final national exit polls and an early tally of votes cast. Youth voter turnout was especially high in the contested battleground states. “This is phenomenal,” said CIRCLE Director William A. Galston . “It represents the highest youth turnout in more than a decade, 4 percentage points higher than the previous peak year of 1992.”

Because young people participated in considerably larger numbers than they had in the past, they kept pace with the higher turnout of Americans of all ages. Voters under the age of 30 constituted the same proportion of all voters as they did in 2000 (about 18 percent).

Young people voted at a much higher rate in contested, “battleground” states. 2 In the ten most contested states, youth turnout was 64 percent, up 13 percentage points from 2000. In the battleground states, the youth share of the electorate was 19 percent. In the remaining 40 states and the District of Columbia , youth turnout was 47 percent and the youth share of the electorate was 18 percent. One explanation for the higher rates of participation in the battleground states is that there was greater voter outreach and political advertising in these states. Current research shows that youth participate when they are asked to do so.

Young people chose the Kerry-Edwards ticket over Bush-Cheney by 54-44, according to national exit polls. They were the only age group to prefer the Democrats.

http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_ektid17696.aspx

[TwilightGardener]

3. I'm sure glad we don't have to worry about attracting the youth vote, Indies

and Republicans anymore. Dems only, please! A surefire recipe for success in November.

[laconicsax]

5. How many young voters will read comments like that? nt.

[abburdlen]

6. that particular comment,

not too many to be sure, but it seems to be becoming part of the narrative.