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The Youth Vote Voted

I'm posting this to correct my earlier statements; otherwise, I really should stop blathering about politics for a while. It's bad for my my blood pressure.

Turns out the youth vote turned out after all. My previous statistics (coming from NBC midway through their election coverage) turned out to be misleading.

According to professor William Galston at the University of Maryland, at least 20.9 million Americans under 30 voted on Tuesday. That is an increase of 4.6 million voters from 2000. Four years ago, just 42.3 percent of young people voted. This year more than 51.6 percent did.

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According to exit polls, Senator John Kerry won the under-30 set with 54 percent of the vote to President Bush's 44 percent. The Democrats lost every other age group. Without young Democrat voters, President Bush would have rolled to victory in Wisconsin and New Hampshire; Iowa and Nevada, too, would have been much bigger wins for the president.

So. It's starting to sink in now. Time to get used to the idea.