MySpace, your space, waste of space.
So, it appears that many of the 2008 presidential hopefuls have created MySpace pages. Evidently, Barak Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain have pages as do John Edwards, Al Gore and others. As I have said before, my training is in Political Science and to be quite honest, I find the benefit of having a MySpace page for a presidential candidate dubious at best. It has been shown that for years the people who vote the most consistently in this country are middle class, white males between the ages of 28-75. I believe that this is the demographic which all candidates should be trying to influence; yet we have candidates wasting time and resources creating MySpace pages. I will venture a guess that the demographic for MySpace is largely female, below the voting age, with some underage males and pedophiles thrown in. I know that most of my students, who are 12 and 13, find MySpace incredibly boring. Perhaps all these candidates have forgotten that the voting age in the United States is eighteen or perhaps they are trying to capture the pedophile vote. Doesn’t anyone THINK before they act in the political arena any more? Or is it that this current crop of candidates is so starved for attention and success that they will try anything to get elected? God help the republic if the latter is the case.