Pump up the Youth Vote Alert: Obama to appear on Jon Stewart

Here’s another sign the Obama campaign is concerned about youth turnout, which may reach a 16-year-low this year: The president will appear on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” on Thursday — two days after the second presidential debate. So if he flubs this debate, too, he’s REALLY going to hear about it on what will be Obama’s sixth appearance on the show.

Here’s a clip from Obama’s last “Daily Show” gig, Oct. 27, 2010, when Stewart asked Obama the classic, almost existential question: “Are we the people we were looking for? Or does it turn out those people are still out there and we don’t have their number?”

Joe Garofoli