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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
OK, seriously listen. I just looked up the statistics and this is being blown way out of proportion. Persons aged 18-25 were approximately 30 million in 2003. In the 2000 US census, the population aged 25 and over was 175 million. Guess what percentage that makes persons aged 18-25 of the entire population....yup, you guessed it! About 17% I just want to make this very clear: young people voted in this election in nearly perfect proportion to their share of the voting populace. So tell the media and MTV to stop spinning this and making young people feel guilty. I'm quite happy with the turnout. Young people get far less respect than they deserve.
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Actually, the population 18-25 compared to 18+ would be 30/(30 + 175) = 30/205 = 14.6%. This means that, according to census and exit poll(?) data, a higher proportion of 18-25 year-olds voted. I went to vote at my college, and there were lines out the wazoo full of college-age students. For me, the most interesting thing about the youth vote is that Kerry only won it 54-44. It was predicted that he would do better than this, and the exit poll data was slanted 6 points for Kerry (national prediction: 51-48 Kerry; national vote: 51-48 Bush).
The youth vote came out in this election, but if MTV comes out and claims they had anything to do with it, they're really full of it. Can't they realize that entertainment and politics don't mix (that's why we've got two separate boards on TFP).