Saturday, November 8, 2008

How did the gamers vote?

For the sake of argument, let's say that the majority of gamers fall into the 18-29 years of age category. We all know that most gamers tend to be on the younger side, and the 18-29 category happens to be the youngest category on CNN's reporting of the results.

Of all of the voters in this category, 66% voted for Obama and 32% for McCain. Of course, not everybody in this category are gamers. According to one Gamespot poll, the vast majority of gamers supported Obama (439 votes for Obama, 146 for McCain, 30 for a third party).

However, upon closer inspection of CNN's statistics, we see a somewhat surprising “revelation.” Everybody had been expected younger voters to come out in droves, but they didn't. They only made up 18% of the total, only two percent above the lowest demographic, 65+. This is incredibly sad, considering that this age group is one of the largest groups in the US.

So, how did the gamers vote? Sadly, they didn't.

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