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I have to admit, I was swayed by this essay. I actually don't think I had a previous stance on the issue, but it seems reasonable to give the right to vote at 18, or at any point earlier where a minor passes a standard civics test.
I think the argument would have been a bit more effective if he had left Bush's re-election out. It needn't be a political issue, and making it one won't help the cause. (As an aside, that was one of my biggest problems with Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth". -I think he should have left the 2000 election out of the movie, because in some minds, it colored the issue as political.) Also, the generalization about "millions of wives in conservative parts of the country" is simply ignorant. Aside from those problems, he makes an effective case. I am for giving some minor's the right to vote.