Reply #17: I think you're putting the blame in the wrong place.

[ContinentalOp]

"I don't buy the line about 'they don't speak to/for me', because if you ASK them what the candidates specifically stand for, they can't tell you"

So who's fault is it that young people (specifically in this case young women) don't know what the candidates stand for? Isn't that a complete and fundamental failure of the part of the candidates? Even considering that the media is stacked against us, the candidates HAVE TO get their message out to these people somehow. We can't expect every voter to find their way to DU and sort things out for themselves. Let me rephrase that: the candidates have to HAVE a message to begin with before they can hope to get it out to the voters!