Voter Demographics

Lee at Moore-Watch ran into an interesting report at Yahoo/AP. It seems that the radicalization of the youth vote is not happening and the voter turnout for that age bracket is proportionally about what it was in the 200 elections. There are more kids 18 to 24 voting but the increase was about the same as the total percentage increase between 2000 and 2004. From the Yahoo/AP article: bq. This was not the breakout year for young voters that some had anticipated. Fewer than one in 10 voters Tuesday were 18 to 24, about the same proportion of the electorate as in 2000, exit polls indicated. Still, with voter turnout expected to be higher overall, more young people appeared to have come out. Emminem did a very powerful video (I may not always agree with what he says but he writes well and his stuff is very well produced) driving kids to vote but it seems to have had minimal effect. The Moore-Watch website is one that tracks the activities of a certain obese and hirsute filmmaker and serves as a counterpoint to his spin. Lee likes facts, lots and lots of facts and is more than happy to cite sources and backgrounds. Lee closes his post with this snarky comment: bq. Welcome to total irrelevance, Mikey.