What's Wrong with Our Country?

When I sat down to write this, I was thinking about ranting about polls, but as I continued to write, I became fired up about the way the media and the professional world treats our generation.Over the course of however long these reputable pollsters have been doing polls, people have come to accept these polls as somewhat legitimate. Somehow in the year 2008 where everyone and their mother has a cell phone, a land-line based poll is accepted as factual. There are multiple problems with this idea. The media is trying to stifle our voice. Do not let this happen.

First of all, no one relies on the youth vote to come out and support a candidate. I don't blame them. The Youth of today suck at involvement because they're too wrapped up in starting hateful fake protest groups on facebook and hitting on the opposite sex via an instant messenger client. These kids who join "1 million strong against (Insert random politician's name)" are not doing anything to promote a cause. They're clicking a button a website where they'll just be a number name. It gives them an excuse to not get involved. It gives them an excuse to say "I don't have to volunteer or do anything for a political candidate, because I support them and facebook says so."

I am guilty of this as well, but for the first time in a long time we have a political candidate who has sparked the youth. Every office you go into for Obama, its basically run by kids. They're doing the phone banking, they're making the youtube ads that are somehow making it to the sensationalist news networks. They are walking up to doorways with veteran political volunteers and shocking the country as they register hundreds of thousands of new voters.
The professionals like to explain away the polls and say that cell phone's don't change that much about the polls, but that's just a way for the pollsters to try and maintain legitimacy. I can't tell you the last time I've picked up my home phone to call anyone, or even answer it. I know a lot of the people I know are the same way, so why are the pollsters ignoring us?
I'll tell you why; They ignore us so that they can lower our expectations of a presidential candidate so that we don't end up voting in the end. They want to keep the race close because it keeps people paying for crosstabs and the media will play around with it. Everyone knows states like Oklahoma and Kentucky are going to show enormous leads for the Republican candidate and it is due to a variety of reasons.
However, Rasmussen is extremely sneaky with the way they poll. They have 40 different ways they question people, and they aim to question a certain percentage of each party as well as independents. The problem with this; They use a certain number in daily tracking and they attribute it to the state polls. Each state has a statistically significant difference among the parties, and Rasmussen doesn't account for that.
So, say you go on the Missouri secretary of state website and you find the voter registration numbers, and then you attribute the affiliation breakdown for each candidate. The numbers change dramatically, and this is not taking into account for the Youth Vote. Not a single friend or family member has ever been polled by any of these reputable pollsters. What these pollsters have done is take an energized youth electorate that has spent time and money they don't have, and shoved "YOU AREN'T MAKING A DIFFERENCE" down their throat. If you ever wanted a way to disenfranchise an entire generation of people from voting, this is how they're doing it.

The media supports this because as long as they continue to be the age group that decides elections, they will continue to reap the benefits and they will continue to be the ones influencing laws that should have been made obsolete. They are the ones who sit by and watch as senators add ridiculous amendments to budget plans, and they are the ones who want to regulate music piracy, internet use, and raise the price of gas.

They're the ones responsible for our social security problem, They're the ones responsible for wasted wars, and they're the ones responsible for convincing the electorate that they should vote for a candidate based off one or two issues and not the ability of that candidate to lead. They sat by while their parents passed law after law giving black people civil rights and trying to integrate them into a society, and now they're sitting by idly as other minority groups get treated the same way.

It is our job, as the first generation of people to grow up with computers readily available and information so easily found to stand up and not let this happen. I will not let them hijack our future. I will not let them sit by and ignore valid statistics in the hope that enough people will become disenfranchised and stay home so the status quo can remain the same. I will not let them continue to destroy this country with deregulatory laws and and archaic economic ideas. It is our time to stand up and fight for what's right. It's not about what political party you belong to, or what color you are, or what your sexual preference is, or what you're religion is. It is about us, as the ignored generation to come out and force everyone to stop ignoring us.