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其實………，在G被電腦綁架這三天前，G正在翻譯麥可‧摩爾的文章，翻到一半就被綁架去修理姑的電腦了。摩爾的大意是說：大家要樂觀，因為18-29歲族群是唯一一群壓倒性投給凱瑞的人，代表美國年輕一代有希望。
我先po上去，最近有時間再繼續翻譯。
Sunday, November 7th, 2004
The Kids Are Alright
Dear Friends,
親愛的朋友
If there was one group who really came through on Tuesday, it was the young people of America. Their turnout was historic and record-setting. And few in the media are willing to report this fact.
如果說有一個群體通過了星期二的測試的話，那就是美國的年輕人。他們的參與將被歷史記載。並且少數的媒體也將記載這格個事實。
Unlike 2000 when Gore and Bush almost evenly split the youth vote (Gore: 48%, Bush: 46%), this year Kerry won the youth vote in a LANDSLIDE, getting a full ten points more than Bush (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%).
並不像2000年那次高爾跟布希幾乎撕裂了年輕選票〔高爾48%，布希46%〕，今年凱瑞贏得了壓倒性地年輕選票，比布希多得到了10個百分點〔凱瑞 54%，布希44%〕
Young people were the ONLY age group that voted for Kerry. In every other age group (30-39, 40-49, 50-59, etc.), the majority voted for Bush.
年輕人士為一一個頭給凱瑞的團體。在其他的年齡群中〔30-39，40-49， 50-59，等等〕，大部分人頭給了布希。
In my state of Michigan, observers noted that it was the record youth vote that helped to put Kerry over the top in the state (AP: "Young Voters Played Big Role in Kerry's Michigan Victory")
在我的州密西根，觀察家注意到：年輕選票幫助凱瑞讓他在這個州贏得最高票〔美聯社：年輕選票在凱瑞密西根州的勝利裡發揮了關鍵角色〕。
Contrary to all predictions and to tradition, MORE young adults (18-29) voted in last week's election than in any other since 18-year-olds were given the right to vote in 1972.
相較於所有的預估及傳統上，年輕人〔18-29〕上星期出來投票的比例多於其他族群，自從1972年這個州賦予18歲年輕人投票權以來。
It was the first time that a MAJORITY of all young adults came out to the polls: 51.6%.
這是第一次：大部分的年輕人願意在民調中站出來：51.6%。
Young adult turnout was UP more than 9% higher than the 2000 election ("Big Voter Turnout Seen Among Young People").
年輕人的參與比上屆2000年選舉多出9%〔在年輕人中這是個巨大的投票群〕。
4.7 million MORE young adults voted in this election than in the last one. All these numbers are likely to go up when the millions of provisional ballots (and absentee ballots) are counted later this week (it is believed that young people were among the hardest hit in being forced to vote provisionally and students away at college make up a large bulk of the absentee ballots).
這屆比上屆的年輕人多了470萬。所有這些數目似乎在成長中，當百萬的臨時選票〔以及不在場選票〕在這個星期稍後被計算出來時〔年輕人被視為臨時投票中最堅定的族群，並且遠在大學裡的學生創造了大量的不在場投票〕。
Rock the Vote and MTV's "Choose or Lose" had set the seemingly unattainable goal of getting 20 million young people out to vote. In the end, nearly 21 million youth voters cast their ballots last Tuesday -- A RECORD.
表面上，選票的動搖及MTV說的「要不選擇，要不輸掉」似乎很難達到讓2000萬年輕人去投票的目標。但最後，將近2100萬的年輕人在上星期二去投票了－－記錄說的。
From the beginning, I believed that young adults and "slackers" would rise up in this election. As we began our slacker tour in Syracuse's football stadium on September 20, we could tell that this election would be like no other. It was no longer uncool to talk politics like it was five or ten years ago. Now, you were considered a loser if you didn't know what was going on in the world.
剛開始，我就相信年輕人及「懶惰蟲」在這次選舉中會增加。當我9月20號開始了在西拉鳩斯市橄欖球運動場的懶惰蟲旅行時，我們可以說這次選舉將不像以往。它將不再像5年前或10年前那樣對於談論政治缺乏自信。現在，如果你不知道什麼是世界潮流時你將會被視為一個失敗者。
After speaking to the 10,000 gathered in Syracuse, we went on to hold rallies in 63 cities, mostly on campuses. Every
night the events were packed, with anywhere from 5,000 to 15,000 people showing up. We registered thousands to vote
and got tens of thousands more to sign up to volunteer with Move On, ACT, the College Dems and other groups like
Vote Mob and the League of Pissed Off Voters. We reached perhaps a half-million people in person and millions more
on local TV and radio in those 63 cities (all but three of them in swing states).
To be honest, this tour was a killer and not the easiest thing to do for a guy who isn't 18-29. Two (sometimes three) cities
a day for over a month, crisscrossing the country, is enough to make you want to sleep for a year. But I was deeply
inspired by what I saw. The level of dedication and commitment amongst everyday, average citizens was overwhelming.
Each night from the stage I could see it in people's eyes that they were not going to give up -- and they, too, would not
rest until Bush was removed from the White House.
In every town, this movement was being fueled and often led by young people. I don't ever want to hear another adult
talk about how apathetic the youth are or how they don't have "it" in them. What you are about to see in the coming
months is going to shock you. These kids aren't going away. They have a resilience that cannot be snuffed out by older
people's whining and moaning about the state of America. THEIR America has yet to be formed as they see it, and this
one setback is not going to stop them.
Witness the students at Boulder High School in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, two days after the election. These kids
can't even vote yet but that was not going to get in their way of expressing their outrage over what we adults had just
done. The high school students took over the school by staging a sit-in and would not leave the building. They stayed
there all Thursday night. They told the media that they were protesting the election results and putting Bush on notice
that there was no way they were going to allow the draft to come back. It was the most uplifting moment of the week.
In the day after the election, the pundits were spewing their hot air about how the youth vote didn't matter this year. I
wonder, even though they have the same facts available to them as I do -- the ones I've cited above -- do they just chose
to ignore them because it doesn't fit into their tired old routine they call "conventional wisdom." I guess it is easier to
simply repeat the same broken down cliches than it is to find out what the truth really is.
And it's even more important to kill what smells like teen spirit to them. God forbid if young people ever realized their
true power and used it. Maybe what young adults need to continue to do is keep creating their own new media and news
sources on the Internet and through other new technologies. Just bypass the old farts on Fox and CNN and all the rest.
One thing's for sure -- by never challenging this president on his lies that sent our young off to war, they have proven
which side they are on and it isn't on the side of the young or the future.
Congratulations, 18 to 29-year-olds -- you rocked.
Yours,
Michael Moore
www.michaelmoore.com
MMFlint@aol.com (if full, try mike@michaelmoore.com)
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