Baracks Popularity Causing a Youth Movement Never Seen Before

January 8, 2008

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In the five days following Sen. Barack Obama’s victory in Iowa a unprecedented 10,000 people registered to vote in Chicago, figures seldom — if ever — seen for a presidential primary.

Two-thirds of the people registering these last six days have been 32 and younger some as young as 18. If you talk with these younger voters, they’re making direct reference to a history-making election and Barack Obama,” said election board spokesman Jim Allen.
We have these for general elections. But, we’ve never had a rush like this for a presidential primary. People are saying the only time they can remember anything like this is when John F. Kennedy was running” in 1960.

I can attest to the movement here in Chicago, the city in which I now call home. You can’t walk 50 feet down Michigan Ave. without seeing an Obama for President sign, tee-shirt, or volunteer passing out Obama literature. On top of that I have friends here in the City that I have known for years, and never once heard them even mention politics, those same friends are now registered Democrats and ready to cast their vote for their hometown Senator. This just reinforces my belief that Barack Obama is bound to receive the Democratic nomination for President. Now I could be wrong, Hillary could pull a miracle out of her hat, but it would take just that –a miracle– for this Obama uprising to be put down.