Campus Camp Wellstone's Mattie Weiss just posted a scathing entry about the underresourcing of young voter organizing at a time when we have the potential to decide the presidential election.

She notes:

[N]umbers indicate that 6.5 million people under 30 voted in this year's primaries and caucuses, and that the overall youth vote has risen from 9 percent in 2000 to 17 percent in 2008.

Meanwhile, who are campaigns focusing on? Swing voters and “hockey moms.”

Politics, meet religion. Religion, this is politics… To some that meeting is a good thing, while others are probably screaming in horror at the very thought of those two things in close proximity (picture: Macaulay Culkin in “Home Alone”).  

The winds have been blowing in this direction for the last several election cycles, but Iowa's caucus was the gust that brought it to campaigns' doorsteps: young people matter.