Originally Posted by kane

I hate to be the albatross here but I think you are pretty far off base. yes, he has gotten a ton of donations from the internet and from individuals. But do those really mean anything? Not really. Every election there is someone like this. In the last election is was Howard Dean. He was polling first, but still got a ton of support from his website and from individual supporters. He disappeared and there was no revolution.

When you say words like revolution it immediately turns most people off and these college kids and internet kids really can't seem to be bothered to lead a revolution in any other place but an online forum. In the last election Kerry was very proud of the fact that he had registered a record number of under 21 and first time voters. He expected those young voters to take him to the white house. But on election day most of them didn't even bother to vote. I saw on thing on the news shortly after that election that showed of all the newly registered voters only about 1/3rd of them actually showed up. How can their be a revolution lead by the younger people of this country if they can't even be bothered to get off their ass for an hour to vote?