Comments on: An Update on the 2008 Election Turnout

By: Jacob Spades

Jacob Spades — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:40:58 +0000

Back to the topic much? 🙂 Although the youth vote may not have been at the levels overestimated by the liberal-savvy media, the seeds have undoubtedly been planted into their young minds. What will be interesting to see is how the children of the youth will vote in a couple decades. The general “rule” followed by young voters, although likely bent (if not broken) this year, is to vote as your parents do/did. If you are raised to think in certain lights and believe in selected ideals, it’s only logical that your brain functions in that said way.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:45:34 +0000

No.

By: Metro

Metro — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:48:14 +0000

BTW anyone who uses the term “an historic” is either an Anglo or an anglophile definition. imho. But you are half Irish and should have some loathing like me.

By: Metro

Metro — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:45:23 +0000

You should refer to usage of the word “An” . I am correct and you should correct it.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:00:45 +0000

As if the use of the term anglophilic isn’t pretentious!

I’m going to use that word in an upcoming post – I like it. 🙂

By: Metro

Metro — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:55:12 +0000

You are still pretentious with the “an” historic and so also are your professors. If a little anglophilic.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:42:06 +0000

I was an English major in college and I was taught to write “an historic.” Pretentious or not, that’s what I was taught and that’s what I’ll continue to write.

The Vietnam comment is irrelevant to the facts presented. The youth vote increased by 1.3 million overall from 2004, which is not the dramatic increase that it could have been or that you would have thought it could have been by watching the campaign coverage.

By: Metro

Metro — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:26:45 +0000

First of all, it is said “a historic” not an historic, unless you are speaking the Queens form of English where the “h” is a soft H. An precedes non consonants and H as you and I pronounce it, is the hard “H”. People in the U.S. who use that pronunciation I find pretentious and ill-informed since I know you are neither, I think nonetheless of you.

I will just remind our commentator that apples and oranges are being compared as the vote to 18 year old citizens was not conveyed until well into the Vietnam war and as such means the comparison is at the very least regards further inspection.