Is Voting for Young People?

Political Science 298 handwriting Review November 6th, 2012 Danny Fitzpatrick Is Voting For progeny People? The main point according Martin P. Wattenberg in Is Voting For Young People is that childly people today do non vote during elections as much comp bed to otherwise vote groups. Young people today be politically uneng dated. These state patterns of voting mesh ass be confirmed on the national level by the Census Bureaus 2010 stick to data. Among U. S. citizens under the age of 30 in 2010, only 24 percent reported that they voted. (Page-188, IVYP) The low attending of unripened people voting in Presidential elections indicates that young people do not fear enough about politics to participate. According to Wattenberg, there is only one method to make young people care about voting. Wattenberg believes that mandatory Voting is the only method to obtain votes from young people. coercive Voting requires all adult citizens to vote in an election or pay a fine. Compulso ry Voting would be a expenditureful method to obtain a larger voter cheat from young people.The low attendance of young voters is bad because those young voters will be in wake of the United States one day. All people in the United States unless under the required voting age should cast their vote in an election. By failing to vote, a person is missing their chance to make full their civil duty. A generation who is relatively unlikely to see voting as an important civic responsibility is one who may well have many of its members lost as voters for the rest of its duration. (Page- 128, IVYP) Wattenberg believes young voters need to participate or fall victim to being base.Being ignorant to elections is bad because there are people in the United States that political policies will affect. By not voting and being ignorant to an election, a person misses the chance to vote for a expectation that could better their own situation. There are American citizens that really do need spe cific policies to be implemented that only one candidate can deliver. One idea that Wattenberg suggests that I disagree with is that young people do not beget enough information to be politically informed.Information concerning politics has never been more available in alliance then it is today. When a person watches television specifically a news network, they will become politically informed. Without reading a daily newspaper, watching the TV news, or otherwise following current rasets, even the best-educated people will probably not pick up much knowledge about the political world. (Page-69, IVYP) Media on television is constantly reporting what the President or other political figures are doing. ordinarily the media is criticizing politicians for statements or decisions they made.The problem with the media being critical to politicians all the time is that the negative news coverage is unappealing especially to a young voter like myself. Additionally to television, many po litical figures including Barrack Obama use sociable networking as a way to reach American citizens. Social networking is practically a correctly of passage among youth today. Political influences are in all types of media. Any young person that uses social networking or watches television is choosing to not pay attention to politics. It would be reading too much into much(prenominal) responses to say that these two-thirds of young Americans didnt value voting they could well have seen voting as a fundamental right or a crucial choice. Nevertheless, without a strong sense that electoral participation is a responsibility and a duty for everyone, it seems reasonable to conclude that many of these young adults will not vote on a regular basis. (Page-119-120, IVYP) Wattenberg succeeds in establishing that voting among young people is not popular. The patronage of the book suggests that voting for young people is not a priority.Young people who do not detect the urge to vote in an e lection have not experienced a political careen that affects them personally. My overall opinion of Is Voting For Young People is that it was very informing. I was aware how low voter turnout is among young people in the United States but had no idea about the outside(a) world shared that issue. With the exception of Compulsory Voting nations, many nations share a similar voting situation to the United States. The fact that so many young people today do not participate in elections motivates me to help my generation to become more politically informed.