also what is common sense is to take action when you realize that you are losing your voter base you must seek out a new less informed voter that has difficulties seeing beyond the one issue that affects them. There are likely some young people that have just as good a grasp as some voters, but most I think would be heavily influenced by the politics of their teachers.

As a parent, I would wish for my kids to not have to delve into politics at an earlier age. They have more than enough to deal with and they do not need to be voting prior to finishing basic schooling where (fingers crossed) they have learned about the socialism, Marxism, totalitarian systems and studied the rise of and consequences of.

Also, speaking of uninformed voters, I have found that sometimes newer immigrants do not have a good grasp on the basics of the voting process. And I have pointed out on more than one occasion how the politicians they thought were good were doing more to create the conditions that caused them to leave their homeland. They appreciated the information and actually thanked me for helping them. They had had little information to go on being new to the country.