Young Voters Are Overwhelmingly Democratic

These are fantastic numbers:

Assessing the presidential results in Iowa and New Hampshire, Democratic leaders see signs that young voters are flocking to their party and away from the Republicans. Of the 65,230 young people ages 17 to 29 who participated in the Iowa caucuses January 3, 52,580 caucused for Democrats while only 12,650 caucused for the Republicans.

That's a more than 4-to-1 advantage for the Democrats, party leaders point out.

It's not just Iowa, of course.

In New Hampshire, the Democratic analysis shows, youth turnout "surged to 37 percent this year, from 18 percent in 2004 and 28 percent in 2000," says the study.

"Sixty-one percent of youth voters supported Democrats over Republicans. That's 43,753 young people going for Democrats and only 28,288 young people going for Republicans."

And while Obama cleaned up in the 18-24 group in NH, Clinton actually got more votes in the 25-29 year olds. Iowa didn't break them up in the entrance poll... Obama took 57% of those 17-29 Iowa votes.

Youth is turning out for the D's, just as they did in 2004.

According to exit polls, Senator John Kerry won the under-30 set with 54 percent of the vote to President Bush's 44 percent. The Democrats lost every other age group.

Guess the party represented by angry, old, bigoted, war-mongering white men may go the way of the dodo bird in one generation.