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Belafon5/17/2016 6:18:23 am PDT

re: #253 darthstar

Of course they will. Bernie will win the states, and Hillary will win the delegates. Even Steven.

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Eventually, people will need to let the Berniebros go. This would be so much easier if we just didn’t let young people vote.

Eight years ago, a candidate beat Hillary Clinton by following the very same rules she did. Heck, he followed them better than she did (remember her cries for Michigan and Florida).

What this has to do with young people voting is it doesn’t look like their enthusiasm directly translated into increased voting. Some of that is that young people don’t vote like older people do (eventually, people get old enough to realize that they need to vote even if there is broken glass), but some of it is that enthusiasm doesn’t translate to winning. In a democracy, you don’t get extra votes just for being more enthusiastic, just like you don’t get extra votes for having more land.

And young people are great. I used to be one, and I have three young ones, and one of them will get to vote in an election this fall. And he will. He’s already gone to a number of rallies, and participated in the Iowa caucus. But there are young people, women, minorities, and even some of use middle age straight white males. And they all get to participate.