Exposing the Youth Vote

As our stock election photo implies, every election, the Democrats swear up and down that "this is the year the youth vote will matter." And every election, the youth vote doesn't turn out, predictably because college kids just don't really care about voting, just about comparing their parents' politics.

With reference to this, here's an interesting piece about different things for which NYU students would trade their vote. At one of the most supposedly sophisticated universities in the nation, not many of these kids really seems to care about the ramifications of their vote.

I don't really see anything surprising here; as many of the kids rationalize, New York probably will always vote Democrat, just as Georgia will vote Republican for the whole of forever. But it just provides another example of the party leaders understanding very little, if not nothing, about their supposed contingencies.