Flip flops are not just a silly wardrobe decision the students of Georgetown
University are making here in November, as the bitter autumn wind bites their
bare little toes. Two days before the 2008 Presidential election, students are
flip flopping over who they are going to vote for, and why.

Generation Engage's Justin Rockefeller attended the Democratic National Convention. The Denver Post caught up with him on his mission and his perspective as a 20-something voter in election '08.

So how old are you now? I'm 29.

Do you have any siblings? I have two older brothers, and one older sister.

What schools did you go to (starting with middle school)?
I went to the St. Albans school in Washington D.C. for middle school and high school (class of '98), and then I went to Princeton after that. 

Can you talk a little bit about growing up and your
political perspective? Were you always interested? Did you stay distant and then have a clicking point? Or was there a person or a thing responsible for your interest in politics?

The youth vote in this November election will be comprised of the 18 to 29 years olds (sorry, I put under 30 in "youth") who are registered to vote - or can get an absentee ballot sent to them wherever they are.

The "youth" of America, though, who will be participating everyday up to the moment at the voting booth, includes young minds in high schools and hardworking families across the country, and from all different parts of town. They watch the same nail-biting debates we watch, see over and over the same campaign adds we see, contemplate and are struck by (some, maybe not all of) the same issues we are - and they may not have a ballot in their hand, but at their age we (the over 18 year-olds) were doing what they are doing: thinking critically.

Thinking critically may not have been what 13 year old Jelani Wilson was doing when he snatched an "Obama ‘08" car window sticker from the outstretched hand of a Young Democrats volunteer, about to hand one to me.

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