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There's one thing dorky-sexier than Barack Obama: An iPod Touch, the $300 toy that 20 percent of New York University students would trade for their vote in the next presidential election. Downside: Anyone who wants an iPod that bad is clearly a wimpy latte-sipping liberal, meaning that Giuliani just needs two hours at that fancy New York Apple store to rule the country. Upside: Anyone who'd answer a poll like this is better off watching some video than talking to me.
1 in 5 NYU students would swap their right to vote for an iPod Touch
There's one thing dorky-sexier than Barack Obama: An iPod Touch, the $300 toy that 20 percent of New York University students would trade for their vote in the next presidential election. Downside: Anyone who wants an iPod that bad is clearly a wimpy latte-sipping liberal, meaning that Giuliani just needs two hours at that fancy New York Apple store to rule the country. Upside: Anyone who'd answer a poll like this is better off watching some video than talking to me.
7:50 PM on Wed Nov 14 2007
By Nick Douglas
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Ha, shows you how much that school cares about politics! Go to inner cities though, and it would be not for an iPod Touch, but for crack!
Sounds like a great way for Steve Jobs (or someone rich enough to purchase so many iPod touches) to rig the election.
Given our choices in the coming election I don't blame them.
Do you want more of the same, more of the same, or more of the same? I'll take an iPod touch, thankyouverymuch.
As an Apple enthusiast, young voter, and political activist, this disgusts and saddens me.
It isn't as dumb as it sounds. NY goes blue every time so an individual vote doesn't really count. Thank the electoral college system for that.
Then again, these are the same people who are paying $52,000 a year for an education.
If only I could afford to call their bluff. I would do it just to keep 1 in 5 NYU morons from ever voting in an election again. It would be money well spent.
This makes me sick.
@omg-ponies: "Then again, these are the same people who are paying $52,000 a year for an education."
...all the more reason they need to get their butts into the voting booths. If they can afford an expensive education, there's more of a chance that they come from rich families. The more money they have the more taxes (percentage-wise) they'll have to pay in the future.
@omg-ponies: My thoughts exactly. I live in a red state where our electoral college votes go Republican every election so there's no point for me to vote. I wouldn't, however, trade my right to vote in local and state elections where my vote does count.
@RiceBandit: You assume that the rich pay more taxes. As a middle-class New York City resident who will soon be subject to the AMT, I beg to differ.
As an Apple shareholder, this disgusts and saddens.
If I would trade in my right to vote, it would minimally include a week of partying with Kate Moss, private jets to privately-owned Caribbean islands, and a pallet of vintage champagne. Yes, I admit I'm a slut.
It's okay..the people who would be willing to give up their vote are the ones who we don't want voting anyway, and probably don't vote in the first place. These are the ones who go in the booth and say "Well he's the cutest, I'll vote for him." I say make it an actual program, and good riddance to 'em.
OK you realize than a lot less than 80% of students even vote, right? I am surprised that it was only 20% willing to give up their vote, and note the 60-70% that weren't going to vote in the first place.
So, I have an IPOD touch and there's no-one in the current field that I would vote for. I still hate myself for voting for john kerry.
This time I'm holding onto my vote, you can all go fish.
So what would students give up to own a Zune 2?
Someone had to ask!
Trip to the dentist - full day of exams - that spinning feeling after too many bottles of Newcastle....
Anyone?
Get those students some iPods!
Probably 4 out of 5 don't even try to understand the issues enough to vote outside of their party line anyway. Take away their vote and give them an iPhone upgrade (they have to pay for their own contract though).
@jawzxy: @cv:
As an Apple employee, and as an American (more so an Apple employee, since you can't escape the Apple family once you join), this disgusts me.
I see a future where these 1 in 5 will be the leaders and we'll running out of french fries and burrito coverings...
Most people at NYU don't pay full tuition. They get financial aid of some kind.
See what your iPod generation has brought us to?
You blew it up! God damn you all to hell!
if you think the middle class pays more taxes than the rich, you are simply an ignorant moron. the upper 10% pay over 80% of the taxes. i don't know if i got those figures exact, but it's pretty close. and if you dont believe me, you do the research.
@MINI-Driver: an iphone, an ipod touch, an imac...
Surprised? You don't know much about NYU.
On a related note, 15% of students polled said they'd skip voting for the next American Idol for a Zune.
How bout the more amazing thing: That 80 percent of students wouldn't.
I weep for my alma mater.
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