Nov 04, 2008 8:10 PM GMT
Hey, I'm at VT, just a few days from being 19. And I got to VT.
I know there are some of us who are skeptical about the turn-outs of young people in my age group. I can't tell you about everyone, but I can tell you about VT (that is, other than its pure awesomeness).
The voter drive here has been epic. I can sum it up with the following:
I am in an all-male dorm. A woman with a lot of vote pins just came to my room, asked for me, and asked whether I had voted or not. She did not ask my room mate, he had done absentee ballot. Still, that implies that she knew he was doing absentee ballot and I was voting locally. I don't understand how she knew, but I was impressed (enough to write this).
And this drive started months ago.
There was the drive to get people to vote locally or ensure they had an absentee ballot or just be registered. It was so serious I could not go to class or get some food without being asked this some days. That was several months.
Then there was some confusion about local registration and how it removed one's scholarship or something along those lines. An official Obama spokesman along with government officials disproved this in a public announcement.
McCain's mom came here a few days ago and thanked the Republican office for all the work they had done, which is right on main street, right next to the university...
Which is also three blocks or so from the Obama campaign office...
Who have had MoveOn.org call me twice to get me to help people turn out the vote.
Then there was the controversy (one of my teacher calls it that) of having the students who registered locally vote in an out-of-reach place. So there are vans running from campus to the polling station to ensure its easy for everyone to vote. The controversy is that the elected officials who made it so difficult said they wanted to encourage kids to absentee ballot so as to not mess up the local election-which was a joke-only one local office had two people running. The teacher says they didn't want us to vote as we'd be Democrat mostly. Anyways...
This morning when I left my dorm to go and vote (and my free Starbucks coffee, which sucked), there was chalk everywhere on the concrete telling us to vote. Every corssroads and in-between was marked with get out the vote stuff. There were signs, fliers, and others too.
This is long, but the point is we're voting. Maybe as much as back in the day.
And I just though some of you guys might wanna know.
I know there are some of us who are skeptical about the turn-outs of young people in my age group. I can't tell you about everyone, but I can tell you about VT (that is, other than its pure awesomeness).
The voter drive here has been epic. I can sum it up with the following:
I am in an all-male dorm. A woman with a lot of vote pins just came to my room, asked for me, and asked whether I had voted or not. She did not ask my room mate, he had done absentee ballot. Still, that implies that she knew he was doing absentee ballot and I was voting locally. I don't understand how she knew, but I was impressed (enough to write this).
And this drive started months ago.
There was the drive to get people to vote locally or ensure they had an absentee ballot or just be registered. It was so serious I could not go to class or get some food without being asked this some days. That was several months.
Then there was some confusion about local registration and how it removed one's scholarship or something along those lines. An official Obama spokesman along with government officials disproved this in a public announcement.
McCain's mom came here a few days ago and thanked the Republican office for all the work they had done, which is right on main street, right next to the university...
Which is also three blocks or so from the Obama campaign office...
Who have had MoveOn.org call me twice to get me to help people turn out the vote.
Then there was the controversy (one of my teacher calls it that) of having the students who registered locally vote in an out-of-reach place. So there are vans running from campus to the polling station to ensure its easy for everyone to vote. The controversy is that the elected officials who made it so difficult said they wanted to encourage kids to absentee ballot so as to not mess up the local election-which was a joke-only one local office had two people running. The teacher says they didn't want us to vote as we'd be Democrat mostly. Anyways...
This morning when I left my dorm to go and vote (and my free Starbucks coffee, which sucked), there was chalk everywhere on the concrete telling us to vote. Every corssroads and in-between was marked with get out the vote stuff. There were signs, fliers, and others too.
This is long, but the point is we're voting. Maybe as much as back in the day.
And I just though some of you guys might wanna know.
