Andy – I’m not so sure. By all means, let’s wait for better data. In particular I would like someone to clarify whether or which exit polls are worthwhile or not. There’s been a lot of sweeping punditry running through the blogosphere, on both sides, with people making bold declarative statements about what voters think about America in recent days. I’d really like to know if that should be “voters” or “Obama voters.”

As for the youth vote, it doesn’t sound like there was a huge surge of young voters at the polls (particularly if you discount young black voters, who probably deserve to fall under the surge in the black vote more than a surge in the youth vote). Curtis Gans says that the turnout this year wasn’t much bigger than ‘04. It sounds like Obama’s advantage among the youth has more to do with the fact that Obama was exciting to young Democrats and McCain wasn’t for young Republicans. I ain’t going to argue with that, but I think there’s some daylight between that observation and the grand prognostications about the death of the conservative youth vote.

But we can discuss this tonight at the bar.