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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: Wretched Excess on April 08, 2008, 05:16:43 PM
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this isn't the entire story, but it is representative of a storyline that I am sure that the MSM
be start pushing even harder. and no offense intended to our younger CCers :wink:
Young Obama Backers Twist Parents’ Arms
The daily phone calls. The midnight e-mail. And, when college lets out, those dinner table declamations? Oh, please.
Senator Barack Obama’s devotees just won’t give their parents a break.
As the race for the Democratic presidential nomination continues, youthful volunteers for each candidate have been campaigning with bright-eyed brio, not only door-to-door but also at home. But the young supporters of Mr. Obama, who has captured a majority of under-30 primary voters, seem to be leading in the pestering sweepstakes. They send their parents the latest Obama YouTube videos, blog exhortations and “Tell Your Mama/Vote for Obama!†bumper stickers.
Megan Simpson, a Penn State senior, had not been able to budge her father, a Republican. But the day before the deadline for registering for the coming Democratic primary in Pennsylvania, she handed him the forms and threw in a deal-sweetener as well. “I said, ‘Dad, if you change your party affiliation in time to vote for Obama,’ †recalled Ms. Simpson, 22, an Obama campus volunteer, “ ‘I will get you the paperwork the day after the primary if you want to switch back to being a Republican.’ â€
Thus did Ralph E. Simpson Jr., 50, construction company owner, become a newly minted Democrat. “I probably will switch my affiliation back,†Mr. Simpson said, “but I haven’t decided who I will vote for in the general election. If Meg keeps working on me, who knows?â€
Much More (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/us/politics/08kids.html?ei=5087&em=&en=8476359ef6746168&ex=1207800000&pagewanted=print)
I know, ralph. you're already an idiot. :thatsright:
I honestly don't know which is more ridiculous; the fact that it is happening at all, or the fact that the NYT
has written an entire story about it.