Campaign 08: Party Elders

Presidential Election 2008 Andy Kroll : The future of the Republican brand rests in the text message happy hands of young America--which should scare the living daylights out of John McCain. It's an almost universally accepted fact that John McCain, who would be the oldest first-term President in US history, will not win a majority of the youth vote. Barack Obama has enjoyed impressive support from young people since entering the race, and the chances of those throngs of voters inexplicably switching their allegiance are about as good as McCain creating his own Second Life avatar. Numerous polls and surveys show Obama ahead by at least twenty percentage points or more among young voters, a lead the McCain campaign cannot expect to overcome by November. On the other hand, they don't have to. McCain simply needs to chip away... [read full story]