Defeating the purpose

While I can agree that the Democratic message is a bit muddied, it seems odd to call policies that a majority of the public stand for, such as a woman's right to choose and the non-privatization of Social Security as "bad."

And while the author's friends may have shown their hard working red-state Republican values by sitting in a car when they were getting paid to do a job, the fact is thousand and thousands of people got involved actively in the campaign because the actually believed in the Democratic cause. Getting the youth involved is never a bad thing.

And of course, the 18-29 year olds came out in record numbers this year, and they voted 54%-44% for John Kerry. Counting just that group, Kerry would have won over 300 electoral votes. Which would lead me to believe that the Democrats organized and inspired the youth this year better than the Republicans did, and that defeats the premise of this whole article, doesn't it?