I think it will start to mean something again as the younger generation of voters starts becoming more active.

Younger folk are less dependent on the mainstream media to feed them their political news... well, the young people who get their politics from sources other than the Daily Show anyhow.

So a good YouTube speech might one day sway an election. We will see.

I get pretty damn depressed when I start to think that Rick Perry is probably going to be the GOP nominee. When I start thinking that 4 more years of Obama might be the best we can hope for, I just find it disturbing.

Then I look at the poll numbers from Gallup, and Perry has support mostly from the very old, That at least, gives me some hope.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)