The latest story on the Youth Vote '08 blog, from blogger Scott Green, talks about candidates' blatant lies that underestimate young voters' intelligence. He attributes this to the the internet generation's reliance on wikipedia rather than getting information from more reliable sources, and encourages young voters to keep their guard up and question what they read on the internet. He notes two specific incidents -- one where a McCain ad claimed Obama sponsored legislation that mandated sex education for kindergartens, and another where the Obama campaign overestimated Big Oil's contributions to the McCain campaign by $700,000 -- as two key examples where youth voters should have questioned the lies propagated by both campaigns through the media. Green urges young voters to "fight back against the bad habits you've formed from seven years of Wikipedia" and "question what you're told." The Youth Vote '08 blog is produced exclusively for the Washington Post and CBSNews.com by UWIRE journalists at universities across the country. Scott Green is a third year law student at the University of Illinois.
Yesterday's blog entry on the Rock the Vote blog talked about the Philadelphia stop on the Rock the Vote tour. Blogger Nick Brown called the concert their "first major affair," featuring musical artists Talib Kweli, Solange, Trevor Menear, and James Gang. Bobby Kennedy's son Max Kennedy was also at the event, as well as Sopranos actor Joey Pants. Brown notes that they have now registered hundreds of people on the bus and almost 87,000 people online since the tour started. "Anyone who managed to stay unregistered throughout the conernts must have had to make a real effort," he writes.
A post by Alexandra Acker in The Pace, the Young Democrats of America blog, talks about the roles of race and gender in McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his vice president. Acker thinks the Republican's campaign rhetoric is about "us vs. them," and wonders if Palin is the female version of George W. Bush's common-person image. Which, she wonders, could "signal that being folksy is preferable to the big city (read: not white, not like you) guy."
Two recent posts in Life in the Field, a group blog featuring 50 College Republican field representatives, focus on a soon-to-be-released Michael Moore documentary called "Slacker Uprising." Blogger Ethan Eilon writes that the "phony documentary" that focuses on America's youth is an attack on youth intelligence and values. He notes that the title of the film alone perpetuates a view of America's youth that fits the "liberal worldview." Blogger Charlie Smith posted a video in response to Eilon's post and in protest of Moore's documentary, and writes that "everything Michael Moore wants is completely wrong for America and he must be stopped."
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