OK, you crazy kids under 35. That is 18-35...

[babylonsister]

Are you registered? For sure? I'm so tired of hearing how the 'youth' is going to disappoint us.

Tell me it isn't so!

[AbbeyRoad]

1. I'm registered and ready

I'm on the higher end of your age spectrum, so thanks for calling me a kid. :)

I'm going to appreciate it as long as I can.

[PresidentObama]

2. Registered.

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Registered the day I turned 18.

[babylonsister]

4. You are under 35?

I adore you for your caring. Very lovely. :hug:

Even when you bug me. Those, I don't respond to. :D

[Drunken Irishman]

7. I am 24.

I bug you? Sad.

Well, then, YOU BUG ME MORE! :P

[PresidentObama]

9. You bug me the most.

Not really. In all honesty, I'm glad we disagree on a lot of things.

Makes things...interesting.

:P or at least heated.

[Drunken Irishman]

10. I hate you like poison.

;)

[PresidentObama]

11. I can't hate you, your DU name has two of my favorite words in it...

Drunk and Irish

:P

[Drunken Irishman]

12. I quite like the year 2008 thus far.

[PresidentObama]

13. It's been a part good year.

Cheers!

[Drunken Irishman]

14. And I like your sig.

So we've set a foundation.

[babylonsister]

25. Sometimes. But

now I like you even more. You are a young, thoughtful person. I've not seen to many of them, so you just went up in my book. Whatever that book is, but I think it's very cool that you are young and so DAMN opinionated! Ha! :hug:

[inthebrain]

5. Hay man I'm 34

Since when have I been lumped in with 19 year olds. Is this the new "target market" or what?

[babylonsister]

6. Bwhahaha! So sorry, but how should this be handled?

I'm 52, and I'm not 56, would rather be 34, so you tell me where the cut should be. Ha! And good luck!

[inthebrain]

15. Oh crap, you wanna diatribe on the ole Gen X target market?

ok

We're all over the map.

We are pltically active but face different economical challenges. Hence the reason why they claim 30 is the new twenty. Our politicla philosophies are all over the map. We vote for greens, socialists and Democrats depending one whether or not they appeal to our economic or social realities.

We are the generation that's supposed to clean up the mess left by the hippies of the 60's that preached peace and love and sold out to a wolf in sheeps clothing; Ronald Reagan.

We are forever awaiting the figure that can concisely and acuuratly describe out social and economical struggles. The closest we were offered was Kurt Cobain and Eddy Vedder. We are not discovering the wisdom of Howard Zinn and hope to hell this guy never dies. The closest we have is Michale Moore.


We see the 25 and under crowd as a bunch of spoiled rotten little brats that are just about to get a tastes of the vinegar we've tatsted all out lives.

How's that?

[babylonsister]

21. "clean up the mess left by the hippies of the 60's that preached peace and love "

Who the hell has done that, and what was wrong with that? You're picking a big fight if you think the current way this country is going is great. I'd love some 'peace and love'.

[inthebrain]

24. I'm not arguing that it's great

oh. fuck no.

I'm, talking about the ideal. Thoe one that was abondoned and the cold war greedy ideology of Reagan which tookl it's place. The idea that is was abandoned and supported in the name of self preservation.

When it came down to the nitty gritty \folks chose the bogey man and the wallet.

[cliffordu]

29. The vast majority of them did. Not all of us, though.

[Enrique]

20. 37

don't trust anyone under 37. ;-)

[babylonsister]

22. My husband told me that about people under 30, and

he was 29 when we married. We've been married 26 years.
:shrug: He's a big Doors fan.

[cliffordu]

28. Don't trust anyone under 56!!!

[babylonsister]

35. He's getting very close there...

:rofl:

[thoughtcrime1984]

26. Ditto

:)

[nemo137]

8. Registered in my home county, and again when I moved permenantly for college

does a body good, you know?

[AllentownJake]

16. I'm not just registered

I'm a neighborhood team leader in PA :-)

[quantass]

17. Not Registered :-( ... Maybe its because i'm Canadian?!

:scared:

[chyjo]

18. lol

I am 27 and have not missed so much as a school budget vote since I was 18. I think its funny that people concentrate on the "youth vote" coming out bad, whereas I know tons of women with children in their early to late thirties who are not going to vote, nothing I can say or do is going to make them vote, and they just get really annoyed when I have the temerity to suggest that their not voting might adversely effect their children. In contrast when I go to a democratic function at Buffalo State College or UB I find tons of energized Democratic party supporters that are all under 20.

[d_b]

19. resgistered since I was 18

[blogslut]

23. I have a question about registration

BS junior is going to move into the dorms @ the University down the street this month. Does she need to re-register since her address will be different but in the same town and the same voting precinct?

[AllentownJake]

27. What state

If Indiana I wouldn't because of the drivers license law.

[babylonsister]

30. I don't know, but now's the time to find out nt

[blogslut]

31. Thanks

Her ID has my address on it. She'll still be getting mail at my house. I'll call and find out.

[RhodesTube]

32. Youth didn't diappoint last time

Youth turned out in record numbers for the last election. But they made up a small percentage over all because everybody else also turned out in record numbers. I get so sick of the media trying to discourage youth by saying "election after election the youth don't show up to vote" when it isn't true.

[DangerousRhythm]

33. I'm registered!

I voted in the primary so I'd damn well better be registered! :D

[mrs_p]

34. turned 34 yesterday

and registered right after i turned 18. i have a feeling most on DU are registered who are over 18.

[Lucky 13]

36. And the NON-youth haven't disappointed us?! They've run the planet into the fucking ground!!

We haven't had much of a chance to disappoint yet. But the previous generations have been fucking up things for YEARS.


I'm 31. Registered. Volunteering. Blogging. If the "youth" disappoint, it's not going to be because of me.


Tell you what. If you over-35ers promise to stop killing the planet, starting wars, gutting our constitution, and generally fucking everything up, we promise to get to the polls to get Obama in there to fix your mess. Deal?

[babylonsister]

37. Whoa! Chill. Who over 35 has recently even been asked for their

opinion, nevermind solutions? I did mean the claptrap about younger people voting (or not), get your drift, but please don't blame all of us. I'm as unhappy with Pelosi, Conyers, et al, as you are. If anyone could have suggested what could be done about their inaction that would work, we'd listen. We live in messed up times.
The obvious solution is to rid ourselves of those that aren't doing what we want; easier said than done. And the beat goes on.

[Alter Ego]

38. Registered the day I turned 18 and voted Kerry in 2004.