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Old 11-02-2010, 01:49 AM
Dirtycommy Dirtycommy is offline
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Cool Why the heck would I vote?

I'm 18 years old, and as most everyone knows 18-24 are the age category most likely not to vote in elections. I'm probably not gonna vote in 2012 and I really don't care. Right now I get that I need to vote to let my voice be heard exercise my right people died for, be in control of my life, and blah blah blah. I've tried to rationalize why I don't feel like voting and I've come to the conclusion to why I don't wanna vote and maybe why lots of younger adults don't either. The reason we don't vote is because we don't get to pick a candidate. If you think about it you can get into voting for primaries and other things and how actually yes our votes do pick a candidate but really no we don't, at least not my generation. First off there's no candidate that can truly relate to us, to be president you have to be at least 35 but the youngest ever elected was 42, how is my generation suppose to relate to someone who grew up without "Family Guy" or the Internet? Your laughing right now but its not a joke if you think about it no one in my generation had even heard of Barack Obama before the millions of dollars kicked out by sponsers started spreading his name all over the media and in no way did someone from my generation have a say in that. Basically its the baby boomers and generation X picking candidates and saying "here, these are the people you can vote for." Why the heck would I vote for that?
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