The Youth Vote

          After reading the article that we were assigned to read for this blog, An Eternal Revolution, it really got me thinking about the youth of our nation.  I recently have read an article on this called Waiting in Line, The Youth Vote Could Change History.  It talks about how the youth impacts the vote today, and how a huge change was brought about with the youth vote back in 1972.  This huge change was when they made the legal voting age 18, whereas the previous legal voting age was 21.  This change brought about a huge uprising in votes, much like the choice between a black and white president has within our society today. One of the biggest reasons also given for the big uprising in votes back in 1972 was the war that was being fought, and the amount of anti-war youth in our nation.

          This relates to our election because even with this election, there were very many controversial topics that were brought up during the election, much like the war in 1972, that our youth had a very strong opinion on.  There was also a large change in the way that our political system works, which was the choice of two different races running for president, much like the change in voting age from 21 to 18.