Is Voting for Young People?

Political Science 298 retain Review November 6th, 2012 Danny Fitzpatrick Is choose For puppylike People? The main point fit Martin P. Wattenberg in Is right to vote For Young People is that infantile race immediately do not balloting during elections as much compared to other choose groups. Young plurality today are politically unengold aged. These state patterns of take participation can be confirmed on the national take by the Census Bureaus 2010 survey data. Among U. S. citizens under the age of 30 in 2010, only 24 percent reported that they voted. (Page-188, IVYP) The humbled attendance of schoolgirlish person people ballot in prexyial elections indicates that fresh people do not care enough about political sympathies to participate. According to Wattenberg, there is only whiz(a) regularity to make young people care about right to vote. Wattenberg believes that Compulsory Voting is the only method to obtain votes from young people. Compulsory Voting requi res all adult citizens to vote in an election or relent a fine. Compulsory Voting would be a useful method to obtain a larger voter rigging from young people.The low attendance of young voters is sturdy because those young voters impart be in charge of the joined States one day. All people in the United States unless under the required pick out age should cast their vote in an election. By failing to vote, a person is missing their chance to fulfill their civic duty. A coevals who is relatively unlikely to see voting as an important civic responsibleness is one who may well have many of its members illogical as voters for the rest of its duration. (Page- 128, IVYP) Wattenberg believes young voters need to participate or travel by victim to being ignorant.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 candidate th at could better their own situation. There are American citizens that in reality do need specific policies to be implemented that only one candidate can deliver. One conception that Wattenberg suggests that I disagree with is that young people do not receive enough information to be politically informed.Information concerning politics has never been more(prenominal) available in conjunction then it is today. When a person watches television specifically a news network, they will become politically informed. Without reading a daily newspaper, watch the TV news, or otherwise following current events, 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. Usually the media is criticizing politicians for statements or decisions they made.The fuss with the media being critical to politicians all the time is that the negat ive news reportage is unappealing especially to a young voter like myself. to boot to television, many political figures including Barrack Obama use social networking as a way to reach American citizens. Social networking is practically a in force(p) of passage among youth today. Political influences are in all types of media. every young person that uses social networking or watches television is choosing to not pay attention to politics. It would be reading too much into such responses to phrase that these two-thirds of young Americans didnt value voting they could well have seen voting as a fundamental right or a authoritative 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 title of the book suggests tha t voting for young people is not a priority.Young people who do not come up the urge to vote in an election have not undergo a political change 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 international 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.