The crowd is definitely younger
As things have progressed the age of the crowd has gone down significantly. It plays into what Anthony was saying before about the energy in the room. So OK, they come to more rallies and make noise, but do they vote?
The under 30 crowd is becoming more politically active, but they still don’t vote in the kind of numbers that really matter. A candidate is not going to run ads in the fall of ‘08 that are hip and cool - because they know that the people they need to reach who will actually vote are not hip and cool.
I’ll bet if we took a survey of the crowd below us that at least 25% of these people are not even registered to vote.
They’ve built a nice crowd though…















[…] Luckily, admitting the problem is the first step. Sounds like a packed house. While Anthony was getting coffee, I was looking around for a post I saw somewhere in response to Wendell’s post about the age of the crowd. Perhaps someone could help me out. It was about how many voters were registering at the Obama rallies… […]
February 26th, 2007 at 7:21 pm