It's official! Obama can send a big fat thank you to those under 30. The young voters of Super Tuesday pushed him over the edge in several states, which has played a big role in his recent unheard of fundraising abilities.
Jack Cafferty of CNN shared a few of his thoughts at http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/08/young-people-revved-up-for-election/. Including:
"For example, Barack Obama won Missouri by just 10,000 votes. That’s a state where 75,000 young people voted for him. The fact is Obama probably owes thanks to young people for a lot of his Super Tuesday victories. In fact, Obama won the youth vote in 19 of the 22 states that voted on Tuesday."
As I mentioned in my last post, the youth turnout on Super Tuesday was amazing and included a triple turnout in Georgia and several other key states. Obama gets close to 60% of the youth vote on average, considerably more in some states. The combination of this powerful up and coming generation supporting Sen. Obama AND getting out to the polls in record breaking numbers is really paying off.
Gone are the days of young people being "lazy" and not getting to the polls, or not caring because their vote "didn't matter". This is a powerful and mighty voting force that is showing they care about this country, and they care about seeing Barack Obama with the title "President" before his name come January 09.
Karl
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