# if only young people voted
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [November 9, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845 "2008-11-09T11:45:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/1 "2008-11-09T11:45:51Z")
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### Author:  [@PureXTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PureXTC)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2008, 11:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/2 "2008-11-09T11:48:24Z")
No suprise there.
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### Author:  [@Bucker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bucker)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2008, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/3 "2008-11-09T12:31:14Z")
Thank god there’s an electoral college to offset ignorant young peoples votes. Too bad there are a shit ton of ignorant elders in america too.
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### Author:  [@Jim1234664](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jim1234664)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2008, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/4 "2008-11-09T12:49:20Z")
based on exit polls? if so :tdown:
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### Author:  [@blackout](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/blackout)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/5 "2008-11-09T15:04:32Z")
> [@Jim1234664](#):
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> based on exit polls? if so :tdown:
What else would it be based on?
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### Author:  [@Beck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Beck)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/6 "2008-11-09T15:11:45Z")
John McCain is a “hey you kids, get off my lawn” kinda guy.
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### Author:  [@Jim1234664](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jim1234664)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/7 "2008-11-09T19:32:29Z")
> [@blackout](#):
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> What else would it be based on?
I would hope fact, but that doesn’t equate with exit poll data
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### Author:  [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/8 "2008-11-09T19:36:07Z")
Thats cuz most 18-29 year olds are poor.
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### Author:  [@95d16turbo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/95d16turbo)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/9 "2008-11-09T19:38:48Z")
> [@Willybeen](#):
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> Thats cuz most 18-29 year olds are poor.
youre right, i am poor
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### Author:  [@blackout](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/blackout)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/10 "2008-11-09T20:12:46Z")
> [@Jim1234664](#):
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> I would hope fact, but that doesn’t equate with exit poll data
where else are you going to get said “fact”?
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### Author:  [@dawn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dawn)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/11 "2008-11-09T20:13:37Z")
What about Nader?
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### Author:  [@ILC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILC)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/12 "2008-11-09T20:14:39Z")
How about “If only Black people voted” Same result just magnified
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### Author:  [@TurboTSi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TurboTSi)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/13 "2008-11-09T20:18:46Z")
> [@Willybeen](#):
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> Thats cuz most 18-29 year olds are poor.
so true, I was thinking the same thing.
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### Author:  [@JSTANEON](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JSTANEON)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/14 "2008-11-09T20:20:52Z")
any statistics on 18-29 yr olds with a degree or diploma? Or people that actually understood the Obama/Biden policies …other than “im gonna get free money”
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### Author:  [@jt76](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jt76)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/15 "2008-11-09T20:25:52Z")
> [@Beck](#):
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> John McCain is a “hey you kids, get off my lawn” kinda guy.
:lol::lol::lol:
Bandwagon college kids :meh:
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### Author:  [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/16 "2008-11-09T20:35:45Z")
I wonder what that map would look like if it were only college graduates.
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### Author:  [@blackout](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/blackout)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/17 "2008-11-09T21:13:17Z")
college grads chose Obama by a small margin but post graduate chose Obama 58% to 40%
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### Author:  [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 9:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/18 "2008-11-10T09:26:36Z")
I’m constantly amused by people who think college students are less informed than other people?
oh yeah, because the 42 year old single mom who works are walmart is going to be way more informed than somebody who’s currently working on their undergrad in engineering…
idiots.
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### Author:  [@TurboTSi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TurboTSi)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/19 "2008-11-10T09:34:24Z")
^ I don’t think that they are less informed, just their priorities are different and normally extremely Liberal. When they grow up and make real money a lot of times their priorities shift more to the right. Maybe not totally conservitive but more to the middle.
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### Author:  [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 10:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-only-young-people-voted/57845/20 "2008-11-10T10:41:20Z")
that brings me back to the original topic, I think younger people tend to be more informed because of how we get our information compared to older generations… I think if you took a poll across most college campuses you’d find people are pretty left-centric.
the republicans are going to have to seriously reinvent if they want a shot in 2012
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