Youth Vote in 2006 - Pretty Sucky

Civic organizations spent tens of millions of dollars running up to the 2006 elections to increase voter turnout. Groups like Rock The Vote, League of Pissed Off Voters, The National Hip Hop Political Convention and others did everything from producing music concerts to creating online videos and ironic tee-shirts. The good news? All that work bumped up the overall turnout from 2002 by 3 percentage points. The bad news - ONLY 26% of young people 18 to 29 voted in the cities and suburbs. What the @%!*** is the matter with you numbnuts? There's a war going on, in case you hadn't noticed. Congrats to the 26% who showed up to vote and shame on the other three quarters! Of course, us adults are only somewhat better - a little over a half us turned out to vote. We've ALL got to do much better in 2008.