When the campaign season starts, most candidates don’t worry about appealing to the youth vote. But if the candidates did appeal to young voters, there would be a substantial increase in youth voter turnout. In turn, young voters feel alienated and left out, because they are being left out by those same candidates. It’s kind of an oxymoron, and a sad waste of votes. Each group, candidates and young voters, are only hurting themselves and their involvement in the political process.

But this election season, it seems like the candidates are trying to appeal to young voters. You can add Barack or Hillary as your friend on MySpace or join their Facebook group along with thousands of other supporters. Sometimes they try to hard to appeal to young voters. I hardly doubt there are any young people who would love too have a ringtone of their favorite candidates’ speeches.

Young voters want change. They see change in a minority or woman running for president. That’s one of the ways they believe real change can occur. They want different, and more diverse leaders.

So I’m asking you, who is the candidate America’s youth should stand behind in 2008? And if Stephen Colbert hadn’t dropped out, maybe it would have been him.