The Non-Existent Young Vote

Hmmm. Waste of time?

Although George W Bush is just months into his second term, politicians have already launched their campaigns on the internet for next year's mid-term elections.

John McCain in 2000 and Howard Dean in 2004 broke new ground in using the internet to raise funds and organise their supporters.

And in the 2004 presidential campaign, the internet became even more central to political campaigns.

Now politicians and the political parties in the US are jumping on the latest internet bandwagon: Podcasts.

I don't know if it's a wise idea to try and entice the youth of America to vote with a gimmick like this. Most young people don't vote, plain and simple. They're too stupid and apathetic to care. I'm twenty-two, and I can recognize that; it's my own peers I have to condemn with such statements. If the "get out the vote" power of Matt Damon and Bon Jovi can't do it, then "pod-casting" isn't likely to change much.