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Originally Posted by baddog
 Yeah, that demographic just floods the polling places.
I have a question for whomever wants to answer: what percentage of registered voters do you anticipate showing up to actually vote? |
In 2004 70% of registered voters showed up to vote. (55.3% of the voting age population)
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html
My guess it it'll be 10 points higher than that this time around. (65% of the voting age population)
I know you're skeptical about the youth vote turning out, and every 4 years someone says "oh but it's different this time" and they never show up.
BUT
You have to admit that just based on the sheer number of donors and volunteers Obama has assembled, along with the biggest get out the vote effort in history, that youth numbers are going to be significantly higher than they have been at anytime since the Vietnam war. (there's nothing like a draft to get an 18 year old to show up to vote)