http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_hol ... 51206.html

Decent editorials/perspectives found within. From my own experience I can say I too felt similar to this -

"When I was a kid, I often heard that a person can’t complain about the government unless she voted. I didn’t really understand why people were bothering to complain in the first place; wasn’t one politician much like the others? As a kid, politics was about as relevant in my life as mud pies were to my parents’ lives, and considerably less entertaining. I find it peculiar that only a few years later, I’m nearly where I was when I was six – politics are as relevant to me now as ostrich farming, but at least it’s entertaining.

I don’t vote. I see little value in voting. I often wonder why other people vote. Not voting is not something I’m proud of, but just between you and me, I don’t see the point.

It’s easy to perceive all non-voters as apathetic and lazy. I think that’s inaccurate – the issue is complicated, and I think that many non-voters do want to effect a change; they simply tend to see voting as a futile option.

For years, I didn’t vote because I didn’t feel responsible enough to do it; I couldn’t be bothered to sit there and figure out what each party was saying. It was too complicated, mind-numbingly boring, and it didn’t appear to impact my life directly. Perhaps wrongly, I determined that an uneducated vote was worse than not voting at all."


Yesterday while sitting around my sons football practice I struck up a conversation with another players older sister, a 20 year old, former Middle, JR and H.S. cheerleader now community college girl and I asked her if she was going to vote and she responded woohoo Obama all the way baby! and I asked her is she knew anything about Obama and she said just that he's black and cool and we need to elect a black man for president, that would be cool... I asked if she knew where Obama stood on the issues? She said uh, what issues? I said you know, environment, Iraq, education etc. She responded that, no she did not know about any of those things, again repeating he's just cool because he's black and not, you know, all old and stuff. I asked if she had heard of Bill Ayers or the Weather Underground, and Obamas connections to the trinity church and what the Black Value System is and his pastors views on Black Liberation Theology? She said, uh no... I told her she should look it up/Google it sometime and ask her friends or watch the news.

My point being, this made me realize that their is a sea of these uninformed youth voters who probably see this election as just about the cool factor.
Yellow_Flash_Colorz_PDT_37

Word, WOO OBAMA

Not that thier are not many young activist and well informed youth voters as indicated by those here in this very forum.(I'm so proud of my little prodigys, teehee muhahahahaa) anyway, again trying to be fair and balanced. Yellow_Flash_Colorz_PDT_19

There's definitely plenty of uninformed voters, on both sides of the bipartisan divide.

Eh, there's a mix.

Yeah, there are young voters that just watch the commercials or look at someone with an Obama sticker and feel the need to vote for him because of that (though, to be fair, that statement could apply to a few older voters as well), but there are some that are very well informed. I probably could find quite a few very informed young voters just walking through campus (granted, part of the reason is that the college I attend is one of the largest in the nation, but that's besides the point Yellow_Flash_Colorz_PDT_02 ).

Or blacks voting for him just for his skin color on another note. Yellow_Flash_Colorz_PDT_20 and vice versa.