Politicians aren’t trying hard enough for the youth vote

I would like to think that the youth of this country is like a sleeping bear; it spends a lot of time doing nothing, but when awoken, it can do amazing things.

This has been true for many generations, where a youth movement or some sort of counter culture revolt started great social change. That is what I would like to have believed, but after observing my fellow generation, I have noticed that we are not really like a sleeping bear but more like a fat guy.

The fat guy complains a lot about where he lives and where he is going. He also describes what he would do if he were in charge, but he is far too lazy and bloated to actually do anything.

The youth that I have seen willing to change this nation have been lost within the fat rolls, suffocated by the fleshy waves of ignorance and laziness. The lack of a central movement and willingness to change has left this nation's youth to be crippled and unable to do much of anything for the country.

Now, how does a politician deal with this and get campaign support?

Well, most politicians don't spend much time trying to get the college vote or even spend much time with the youth. This is because the youth are extremely unreliable and don't vote.

Most students on this campus don't agree with the politicians these days, are not registered to vote and don't know their own Senators, even though it is a Google search away.

Not to say that some students are not politically aware, but they are so few in numbers that it is better for a politician to just do a few speeches for colleges and hope that one or two of them go to the voting booths on election day.

You might say to me that you are not a disinterested youth and you want to get involved in politics, but you don't know how to get involved in the political process.

Well, I am here to tell you that there are several youth groups on this college campus that actually deal with the campaigns and a lot more on the web.

On this campus we have College Democrats, College Republicans and other political/ideological groups. The campaigns are not going to focus or do much for the youth if the youth does not show an express interest with the political groups.

In the last presidential election, the Obama Campaign took more of a stance with the youth, but really didn't do anything personally. The campaign committee gave money out to college political groups who supported Obama and let them handle their own campaigns around college campuses.

This gave the college students more incentive to do their own campaigning, and the campaign doesn't have to give up valuable resources to deal with the youth.

I am suspecting that this campaign cycle is going to be the same. Just give some interested college students some money and pamphlets to campaign with, and Obama and the other members of the party would just go to a few college campuses to give the occasional speech to the "voting" populace.