'Slugs'? I Don't Think So!

We were peppered with volleys of mail from the young, and others, responding to Thomas Geoghegan's "Dems--Why Not Woo the Young?" [July 21/28]. Letter-writers from 18 to 52 (almost all gave their age) found the editorial to be everything from "thoughtful" and "heartfelt" to "outrageous," "condescending," "insulting," "snotty elitist crap," "denigrating to community colleges," "relying on stereotypes" of youth, jumping on the "tiresome sixties nostalgia bus" and "as outmoded as fainting couches and arranged marriages." Tracy Goode of Tucson is "offended that Geoghegan thinks my vote can be so easily bought," while Amalia Anderson of Decorah, Iowa, declares, "I for one will not be wooed." (Several young letter-writers denied that they are "slugs.")   --The Editors

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