What would it take for young people to get off the sofa and vote? Cosmopolitan magazine is offering to lend a "party bus" full of snacks, freebies and shirtless male models to the student group that does most to raise turnout. Barack Obama has launched a social-media campaign to woo the young. In a recent op-ed for Medium, a blogging website founded by the inventors of Twitter, he resorted to naked flattery. "One of the reasons I'm so confident about America's future is that I'm confident in you-a generation that's more educated, diverse and digitally fluent than any before you," he purred. Yet no one expects many youngsters to show up at the polls in November. Typically, few do in mid-term elections. In 2010 only 24% of millennials (18-29-year-olds) voted, compared with 51% of Americans aged 30 or over. Youthful apathy is nothing new. Back in 1972, when millions of baby-boomers came of age and just after the voting age was lowered to 18, those who predicted that youthful idealists would toss Richard Nixon out of office were disappointed. Hunter S. Thompson, himself a famously dissolute journalist, lamented that the young "lie around on waterbeds and smoke that goddamn marry wanna" instead of casting ballots.
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机译：年轻人从沙发上坐下来投票需要什么？ 《国际大都会》杂志提议借“派对巴士”的零食，免费赠品和光着膀子的男模特，向最能提高投票率的学生团体借钱。巴拉克•奥巴马（Barack Obama）发起了一场社交媒体运动，以吸引年轻人。在最近由Twitter的发明者创建的Blog网站Medium的专栏文章中，他诉诸赤裸裸的奉承。 “我对美国的未来充满信心的原因之一是，我对您充满信心，因为这一代人比您之前的任何一代都受过更好的教育，更加多元化并且在数字方面流利。”然而，没有人期望许多年轻人会出现在11月的投票中。通常，在中期选举中很少这样做。 2010年，只有24％的千禧一代（18-29岁）投票，而30岁或以上的美国人只有51％投票。年轻的冷漠已不再新鲜。早在1972年，当成千上万的婴儿潮一代出生并在投票年龄降低到18岁之后，那些预言年轻的理想主义者会把理查德·尼克松丢下办公室的人感到失望。亨特·汤普森（Hunter S. Thompson）本人是一位著名的流离失所的新闻记者，他哀叹这名年轻人“躺在水床上，冒着该死的想要结婚的烟”，而不是投票。
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