This year is a historical election all round. Not only with the different racial and gender candidates in running, but also with the amount of interest that the American people had in this campaign weighed against those years past. Especially the youth of America and the amount of point of views share and their interest of (then) coming election.
One question that arises now is how and why was this the case, and what were some of Obama's tactics and doings that were very appealing toward this generation. As statistics show on Gallup website the younger voting population did vote Obama. Was it his very modern designs like on his web site Barack Obama, or the facts of him using many different modern technologies to reach out to the people that grasped the youth of the nation more so than that of our elders.... or possible just the cold hard fact of the fact of the racial difference of the two final candidates that were in the public eye 11.4.08. Once again looking at the statistics on Gallup the older ages were defiantly more prone to vote McCain, is it because of their growing up? The world was not as diverse for them as it is today. The youth of today isn't seen as racial as the older generation.
So these are the two main issues I see that made this a very unusual election compared to the earlier ones, but to say my one sided opinion on what made it so.... I'm torn between these two subjects. 1. The great use of technology that Obama used which defiantly reached the youth of the nation more so. or 2. Just the truth of the matter that we're now seeing results of the way people were raised between the age group of elders who grew up or were younger during the times of segregation etc. and the youth who now have grown up with a much more diverse society and so it's not such a big deal as it once was. They both seem very much feasible in my eyes.
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