The "youth vote" is garnering a substantial amount of attention in the 24 news cycle as the CNNs, MSNBCs, and what-have-yous continue to breakdown voter turnouts in what is amounting to be (if it's not already) a record-setting election year.

The Obama campaign has been the particular focus in reference to pulling the youth vote from its near invisibly status eight years ago and its humble presence in the election of 2004. There is no denying the political influence and pull of the voting demographic that was raised under the Reagan to Bush Sr. to Clinton and Bush Jr. administrations on the eventual results of the Presidential Election of 2008.

However, the extent to which this demographic may affect the election has yet to be seen. The partisan divide in our nation is intense and the independent voting block is maybe larger than its ever been. The political disillusionment and frustration in our country will definitely play an important role on the amount of voters who come out in November.

The Democratic Party itself, while it has struggled significantly, has not been obsolete in voter turnouts and the 2006 midterm election results gave legitimacy to the claim that the Republican Party has suffered in public opinion under the administration of an unpopular President.

The conditions for an Obama victory in November are ripe and the Democratic Party has not had a better chance of attaining the executive seat for nearly two decades.

I'd argue the ace card between McCain and Obama is who can invigorate the youth vote and Obama seems to have it up his sleeve at this point.