The youth vote is more volatile, but that is among the undecided youth voters. Bush's youth voters don't suggest to pollsters they will switch under any circumstances, so his youth bloc is solid, as one would expect from such a demographically narrow (ie white, Christian, middle and upper class), ideologically driven group of all ages.

Kerry still has a majority of the youth vote, but his numbers among them has dropped over 10% over summer, including during and immediately after the DNC. While Nader has picked up a good number of them, most have told pollsters that if they don't vote for Kerry or Nader, they will just sit out the election. That is what Kerry's biggest problem is now. Expectations for Kerry to win among youth and minority voters has reached an all time low in the last two weeks.