Old Thinking by Kerry, Bush?
To: editor@usatoday.com
Re: Old Thinking by Kerry, Bush tunes out youngest voters
Both the Kerry and Bush campaigns have good reason to avoid talking about the concerns of the youngest voters: Kerry doesn't need to and Bush doesn't want to. And please, those concerns have nothing to do with Social Security or the debt burden. All competent observers of human nature have long known that the young expect to be young forever. And while many young people will be affected by gay rights issues, Kerry's position is acceptable to a wide range of voters in all age categories.
The overwhelmingly important issue for young voters is one you don't even mention: the draft. Young people don't worry about what may happen to them in forty years, but they do worry about getting killed or maimed in the next four.
And your chart? It's interesting that the highest level of voting by the young that you record was in 1972—right around the time Richard Nixon was pressured into ending the draft.
Re: Old Thinking by Kerry, Bush tunes out youngest voters
Both the Kerry and Bush campaigns have good reason to avoid talking about the concerns of the youngest voters: Kerry doesn't need to and Bush doesn't want to. And please, those concerns have nothing to do with Social Security or the debt burden. All competent observers of human nature have long known that the young expect to be young forever. And while many young people will be affected by gay rights issues, Kerry's position is acceptable to a wide range of voters in all age categories.
The overwhelmingly important issue for young voters is one you don't even mention: the draft. Young people don't worry about what may happen to them in forty years, but they do worry about getting killed or maimed in the next four.
And your chart? It's interesting that the highest level of voting by the young that you record was in 1972—right around the time Richard Nixon was pressured into ending the draft.
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