Do you Hate Obama?

I want to start off by being honest and saying I don’t know who I’m voting for and don’t feel like I’ve educated myself enough yet on the candidates to pick one or the other. So the following is just purely observation…

but it seems like among young people (recent high school grads that are new voters and college students) supporting barack obama is almost a fashion statement. It sort of reminds me of student body president elections in high school where people tried to follow and represent whoever was the “cool/popular” candidate. I see girls especially (and as stereotypical as this sounds, don’t look like the type of girls who would normally give two craps about politics or even know who is currently president) walking around campus wearing fashionable (probably even designer, haha) “Barack the vote” t-shirts or even shirts with a rasta farian barack obama head in the middle.
i’m sorry, but i really can’t imagine 4 years ago that these same type of girls be walking around campus, proudly repping the face of say, Al Gore on their T shirts. and a lot of these girls are repping obama with a little heart by his name in their facebook and myspace profiles as well, lol.

i actually saw one of these sorority girls embarassed in class the other day when a guy sitting by her asked her what she liked about obama and her response was, “well… he’s like all about change.” and he proceeded to ask her “what kind of change do you think he’ll bring? What ideas of his do you like the best” and she looked like a deer caught in headlights and turned bright red and said, “i don’t really have a favorite… i just like the whole change thingy”

so, not to my QUESTION…
does anyone else notice this? I am all about young people going to the polls and voting and having a voice… but to me it seems worse to have young people voting based on what everyone else is doing or what is the “cool” or the “trendy” person to vote for than have them not vote.
oh, and i don’t want to offend any obama supporters that actually DO know what they like about him and actually ARE educated.