Super Tuesday features the largest number of state primary elections held to select delegates for national conventions.

Today, the 2008 Super Tuesday, is a step in determining each party’s eventual presidential candidate.

Although Texas is not among the Super Tuesday states, one on-campus group, Students for Obama, is holding a public forum today to inform students about the primaries, elections and candidates.

The forum is one of many attempts to reach out to apathetic youth, who have seemed reluctant to vote in recent history.

Voting literacy and importance groups, such as Rock the Vote and MTV’s “Vote or Die” campaign, have also attempted to push youth participation in the voting world.

In the 2004 presidential election, 17 percent of the vote total came from the 18-29 age group.

That 17 percent takes on greater importance when considering President Bush won the 2004 elections with only 50.7 percent of votes.

The youth vote is important and can make a difference.

Today’s forum is another chance for student voters’ opinions to be heard and a chance for student voters to listen.

It gives both the opportunity to impart knowledge and increase understanding.

TCU students should embrace an opportunity to increase their knowledge about making a decision of such undeniable importance.

Although the group holding the forum openly supports Democratic candidate Barack Obama, the information being offered is important for potential voters of all opinions and stances.

Listening to varying political opinions should be on each student voter’s agenda. In order to understand or participate in an argument, both sides must be considered, dissected and decided upon.

Join these youthful renegades in their quest of political duty. Get off your comfy chairs, put down the recently trans-fat free food, turn off the music, turn away from the movie and follow the leaders who know their peers need to be heard.