Voter group Rock the Vote $500,000 in debt.

[sinkingfeeling]

The nonprofit group founded in Los Angeles in 1990 is $500,000 in debt and down to just two employees, from 20 in 2002, according to tax documents and Hans Riemer, the organization’s political director.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11348356/

[bucklebone]

1. Sound like they need to do less rocking and more (bank)rolling. eom

[MrPrax]

2. Grifters n/t

[skids]

3. Casualty of the youth voter myth.

...though there may be other reasons too.

Because of the way the exit poll survey data is chunked, everyone bought into the "young people didn't vote" media myth. The truth is their votes were distributed across two categories, and contributing demographic factors managed to understate their numbers.

[Kolesar]

4. Dan Fogerty and Bruce Springsteen? Born in the fifties??

[skids]

6. Hardly.

Gen X is larger than the baby boomers. Gen Y will outstrip them soon.

[meganmonkey]

5. I registered to vote at Lollapalooza with Rock the Vote

in the summer of 1992.

[onehandle]

7. Whenever a voter group has problems, the GOP celebrates.