Must not have been that big of a crush because the Obama Girl didn't even show up to vote.

Here's what Wired had to say...(http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/obama-girl-lose.html

On Tuesday night, City Room ran into Ms. Ettinger at an election-watching party in Greenwich Village and asked how things went at the polls.
“I didn’t get a chance to vote today because I’m not registered to vote in New York,” she said.
So where is Obama Girl registered to vote?
“New Jersey.”

Hey, what could she do?  The poor girl's not registered in New York.

Um, but didn’t New Jersey also hold a primary?

Oh Duh, yeah.

Problemo, Obama Girl?

The problem, she explained, was that she was sick in New York City and was unable to get back across the Hudson River to the polls in Jersey City.

You can't fault a girl for being sick, can you?

“I was in Arizona for the Super Bowl — every time I get in the airplane I get sick,” said Ms. Ettinger, who did manage to make it to the Svedka Fembot election returns party at Chinatown Brasserie at Lafayette and Great Jones streets.

Guess it must have been one of those 8 hour flus.

But don't go dissing the Obama Girl.  She's not the only one of Obama's young fans to turn up missing at the polls.  The L.A. Times today gave these figures for Tuesday's primary showing in California:

18-29 years old - HRC 49%, BO 49%

Hmmmmmm.  What happened to Obama's Kids?

Me, I don't always trust polls.  What I trust is what I see in my own life.  And in my own life, let me tell you about the youth vote.  

I've got two of my own youth voters at home---my daughter is 20, and my son is 23.
My daughter registered here in CA as a "Declined to State" voter (the rebel that she is considering she comes from two stubborn Democrats!) and they sent her a ballot with no names of anybody running for President on it. She called me and said, "Mom!!! I HAVE to vote!" That was a week before the election, and I gave her the phone number of our county election board. When she finally got around to calling them ("Mom, I'm too busy!  Can't YOU do it???"), they assured her that they would send out a Democratic ballot. "No PROblem," the young voice at the other end of the phone line insisted. "That's cool. We'll just send you another ballot."  But guess what, the ballot never showed up, and my daughter never followed up on it until election day. By that time, it was too late. She's supposed to vote in her home county that's 300 miles away from where she goes to school. It was going to be her first vote ever in a presidential race, but hey, I didn't shed a tear because she was leaning towards Obama (her boyfriend was voting for BO---DON'T get me started on how her feminist Mom feels about this).   My son is a 23 year old gung-ho BO supporter (Where did I go wrong?) who adamantly told me, "Mom, I don't want you talking to my friends about Hillary.  All my friends are BIG Obama fans. They're motivated, they're voting, and Barrack's gonna kick Hillary's ass."

Cut to: My son didn't vote because he was too busy.

His friends?

Well, one forgot to register, one didn't KNOW how to register, and the other guys weren't
sure where they were supposed to go, when the election was taking place, or it was just too big of a hassle. One was still hungover from the Super Bowl.

So much for the youth vote in my family.

Guess Obama Girl wasn't the only flake.

Go Hill!