Age is just a number; idiocy is forever

There's always going to be debate about the civic duty of voting vs. keeping the uninformed watching Jerry Springer come Election Day. With so many "Get Our and Vote"-style ads, campaigns, and slogans aimed toward the "young voter," it could be easy to assume that the youth of America are the sole transgressors of the "politically illiterate" (polilliterate?) camp. At least, that's what 20/20 seemed to think in this clip:



Fortunately, a hometown hero, the Bus Project's Jefferson Smith, flipped the argument on its head, and took to downtown Portland to expose our politically anemic (polanemic?) elders:



Either way, it seems that America is screwed. So what time does Maury start again?

[Thanks to the Portland Mercury for the link.]