Was that enough younger people didn't get out and vote during off-year elections right after Pres. Obama won the White House which helped to usher in the Tea-Party, and we've had to deal with those delusional, racist, blow-up the government obstructionist fools for far too long. I also kept hearing that since the AP called Hillary the Presumptive Nominee a day before Super Tuesday, it depressed the vote in California and many younger Bernie supporters didn't get out to vote because they were depressed. I'm thinking, if they're passionate voters it shouldn't matter if Hillary was the presumptive nominee--they still should have gotten out and voted if they believed in their cause as much as they claimed.
I can remember being 19 years of age, and it being my first time voting in 1980 and I had enough sense to SEE that Ronald Reagan was going to blow Jimmy Carter out, and I lived in a California at the time that was DEEPLY, DEEPLY RED, and when the Orange Curtain back then=Reagan/Republican Country. It was "Morning in America" on television commercials everywhere I looked. Hell, California and most of the USA was Reagan Country. OMG, the Electoral College map of 1980.
But still, I voted ANYWAY on election morning because nothing nor anybody was going to stop me from casting my first General Election vote, nor stop me from remembering that I had a duty to vote because my fore parents and relatives in some cases fought and died so I could have the right to vote.
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