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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: ChinuSFO who wrote (37428)7/24/2004 2:11:56 PM
From: stockman_scottRespond to of 81568
 
"Howard Stern, blogs and voter virgins hold the key"

By Joe Trippi*

msnbc.msn.com

<<...So, I am getting really tired of those cute names for the voting groups that are supposedly going to decide the outcome of this election. You know, NASCAR Dads! Soccer Moms!

It’s all wrong. The key to this election will be young people, disaffected young people, young people who have never voted before— and I’ll be damned if I am going to come up with some cutesy name for them "like Sons and Daughters of Nascar Dad and Soccer Moms." Just shoot me!

What is remarkable about this election cycle is how for the first time in decades the younger generation of Americans is the most active and energized. How they communicate with each other, how they register, turn out and vote may well decide everything in November...>>

*Joe Trippi is an MSNBC contributor. He joins Chris Matthews' all-star panel on "Hardball," all week, July 26-30 as they present coverage of the Democratic convention. He's also a blogger on Hardball's new weblog, "Hardblogger," and author of "The Revolution Will Not be Televised: Democracy, the Internet and the Overthrow of Everything."