Early on in "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail", Hunter S. Thompson suggests that the youth vote could decide the 1972 election. He asks why those on Capitol Hill were not taking it seriously.
In hindsight, they were right. McGovern, the supposed candidate of the youth vote, was hammered by Nixon. Back in 2008, Barack Obama is the new supposed candidate of the youth vote.
McGovern and Obama share an important thing in commmon: their appeal to youth rests on them being perceived as anti-politicians. The Eagleton affair made McGovern look like a standard scheming politician. Obama has avoided such a scandal but can his anti-politician survive the mud-slinging of the campaign?
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