The mainstream media dropped the ball on an important aspect of the CPAC poll that just catapulted Mitt Romney into the spotlight: 64% of the registrants were under age 25.
AP called them "GOP activists"; Robert Novak calls them "right-wingers from across the nation". Another WaPo story talks about "right wing icons" in the first graf, and doesn't mention a college kid until the end of the second page. The clear message in these and other stories is that the conference represents key GOP activists. That may be true, and it may be an important conference (after all, several hundred over-25's were there as well), but the poll results should surely note the source.
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