Once is a Bump, Twice is a Trend

It's late, and I've got to be up in 6 hours, so this will be fairly short.

Apropos of my last post I find an article in the Pittsburgh Tribune noting an increase in youth turnout and quoting Mark Lopez of CIRCLE:

Lopez, CIRCLE's research director, said it's too soon to predict a trend in Pennsylvania.

"If this year has a bump up as well, we may be seeing the beginning of some sort of improvement in youth voter turnout," he said.

Nice to get some validation early in the morning. This meta-quote aside, the rest of the article is pretty standard. The only thing remarkable about it is that it doesn't make a single reference to YouTube, MySpace or FaceBook. And that, these days, is a rare thing.