In case you needed more evidence of the untapped power of young voters:

[walkingman]

3. The real truth about the boomers is not a pretty story. Boomers are typically considered to

have been born between '46 and '64. It is almost impossible to name a single person born after 1945 who played any kind of role in the civil-rights movement, Students for a Democratic Society, the New Left, the antiwar movement, or the Black Panthers during the 1960's. Those movements were all started by older, usually much older, people. They played no major role in the passage of the Civil Rights Act or the Voting Rights Act, or in the decisions of the Warren Court. Almost none of the musicians who were popular during that era were boomers they were mostly all born before 1945.

Most supported the Vietnam War, the Iraqi and Afganistan War, and in fact almost all the conflicts post WWII.

We (I'm a boomer - born 1950) can pretend to be a 60's person but none of it was our idea.

SORRY but as a boomer I think I can truthfully say that we are leaving a fucked up world to later generations and although many seem to not have much confidence in the post-boomer generations - I think they represent what many of of present day Democrats believe in these days. It is easy to see why many are cynical.

I just hope we can get them (the youth of America) to the polls in order to stop this madness that has been brought on by my generation.

Peace!