May 7, 2008
Student Superdelegates Post YouTube Plea for Advice
As superdelegates to the Democratic National Convention, the president and vice president of the College Democrats of America are seeking students’ advice on how they should vote.
Lauren Wolfe, a 25-year-old law student at the University of Detroit Mercy, and Awais Khaleel, a 23-year-old political-science major at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, posted a video on YouTube last week urging students to weigh in.
Party leaders, celebrities, even the Democratic presidential candidates themselves have been calling, Ms. Wolfe says. “That’s not who we want to hear from.”
Mr. Khaleel chimes in: “We really want to hear from you.” He tells students to friend him on Facebook or MySpace — or contact him “the old-fashioned way — through e-mail.”
“We want to make sure,” Ms. Wolfe says, “that our vote belongs to you.”
A few students have replied with their own videos. “We college students, we love Senator Obama,” says Nick from Concordia College. “Please, please, please vote for Obama,” says Karla from San Diego State University.
One student urges the superdelegates to vote for the candidate they “genuinely, deep inside think would be the best person to sit in the Oval Office.”
“You should vote for whoever your state voted for,” another respondent says. “As a delegate, you should represent the people.”
Sara Lipka | Posted on Wednesday May 7, 2008 | PermalinkComments
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Did the two young superdelegates describe how they’re processing all this input to distinguish voters from non-voters, citizens from non-citizens, German teenagers with Web access from Oshkosh day laborers — for example? Is it possible they’re reaching out to everyone alive on earth to look cool and, incidentally, have someone to blame if they make the “wrong” choice? (Even budding bureaucrats and politicians know that you always need someone to blame.)
— S. Britchky May 7, 06:24 PM #
In the end we must unite the party or the race is lost…the time has come.
— Tera Shelton May 8, 08:21 PM #