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Picked this tidbit up off the Hotline Blog:

“Since January, 218,923 new voters have registered. Of those, 152,775 registered Democratic and 40,195 registered Republican.

Also since January, 164,026 registered voters changed their affiliation to Democratic and 14,887 changed to Republican. (Pennsylvania’s voter registration form does not require the registrant to specify from which party they are changing.)

Geographically, the highest numbers of voter registration statistics came from Allegheny and Philadelphia counties; the lowest came from Forest and Cameron counties. By age group, the highest numbers of registered voters are between the ages of 45 and 54; the lowest are between 18 and 24 years old.”

This definitely doesn’t bode well for the youth-fueled Obama campaign. Take a look at the Texas exit polls:

Clinton Obama
18-29
16% 40% 59%
30-44
28% 44% 55%
45-59
34% 54% 44%

Student apathy is disappointing but, not surprising. I just don’t think the youth vote has been the game changer that the media has tried to sell it as.