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• Round-Up of 2009 Youth Vote Commentary

  
  Kevin Bondelli's Youth Vote Blog — Authority: 430
  Prior to Tuesday’s election Craig Berger and I each wrote harbinger posts. Craig’s piece, Prepping for the ‘Youth Disengagement’ Meme , highlighted the need for candidates to respect young voters as any other voting demographic, and that they need to be asked for the votes and support. My article, What ...
  4 days ago

• The Youth Vote and the 2009 Elections

  
  The Next Right — Authority: 613
  Sarah Burris of Future Majority beats me to the punch in rebutting a blog post about a “Rising Tide of the GOP Youth,” as described by The Weekly Standard ’s Rachel Hoff. Burris writes: First, while Rachel is right to congratulate McDonnell for his campaign’s youth outreach, I hardly think it has ...
  4 days ago

• The Youth Vote and the 2009 Elections

  
  NextGenGOP.com | The Future of the Republican Party — Authority: 460
  Sarah Burris of Future Majority beats me to the punch in rebutting a blog post about a “Rising Tide of the GOP Youth,” as described by The Weekly Standard ’s Rachel Hoff. Burris writes: First, while Rachel is right to congratulate McDonnell for his campaign’s youth outreach, I hardly think it has ...
  4 days ago

• Are Youth going more GOP?

  
  Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics — Authority: 532
  Rachel Hoff of the Weekly Standard posted a gloating piece and was tweeting up a story about her new belief that young voters are now Republicans after the Virginia elections. "The young people who were the driving force of the Obama campaign stayed home in 2009. Claims that President Obama won a generation of ...
  4 days ago

• Guest Post: Youthonomics

  
  Ypulse — Authority: 525
  Todays Ypulse Guest Post is from our own Dan Coates, president of Ypulse Insights, on generational shifts in the current political climate reflected in our  October 2009 Ypulse Report and the abbreviated October Ypulse Monitor product. If you work in youth media or marketing and have an idea for a guest post, ...
  4 days ago

• Turnout will Decide 2010

  
  The SideTrack — Authority: 117
  Much of the discussion over the Democratic win in NY-23 and the GOP taking the NJ and VA governors races has centered around Barack Obama, and a "repudiation" or "endorsement" of his policies. If anything, the turnout of all three big attention getting races tells us that Barack Obamas 2008 popularity isnt enough for ...
  5 days ago

• Young Voters Flexed Muscle to Elect Their Own, Democrats Need to Pay Attention

  
  Kevin Bondelli's Youth Vote Blog — Authority: 430
  Despite the chatter from the punditry, yesterday was a big day for Millennials. While they focus on two races with candidates that ignored the youth vote and wonder why turnout did not match 2008’s all time high, a number of young people won local elections throughout the country. In New York, Young Democrats of ...
  5 days ago

• Election 2009: Where have all the young voters gone?

  
  Top of the Ticket — Authority: 781
  The tale of the tape is in the turnout. In New Jersey, Republican Chris Christie pulled out a surprisingly comfortable victory over a better-financed incumbent. In Virginia, Republican Bob McDonnell won an impressive victory touting what he could do to create more jobs.  In both cases, the key to victory was ...
  6 days ago

• Today is Election Day, Youth Must Vote for Dems to Win

  
  The Pace — Authority: 410
  If there is an election today where you live, including the heated and incredibly important contests in Virginia and New Jersey for governor, you must vote. Young people in this country are the reason why Barack Obama is our president today. We can and we WILL swing every election if we vote. If you live in Virginia, ...
  1 week ago

• What Happened to Investing in Young Progressive Voters?

  
  Kevin Bondelli's Youth Vote Blog — Authority: 430
  Yesterday Craig wrote about the “Youth Disengagement Meme” and closed with the following paragraph: Unfortunately, given the lack of funding for many progressive youth organizations, the communications efforts aren’t there. By no means am I an expert in progressive youth infrastructure, but I do want to ...
  1 week ago

• Prepping for the Youth Disengagement Meme

  
  Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics — Authority: 532
  In the work that we do as part of the progressive youth movement, vote drives aimed toward young people can easily take on a message like "vote for votings sake." The result? A media and society that just assume youth are going to vote regardless of what is going on around them. Its a convenient dualism for the ...
  1 week ago

• From Shanghai, China: "1st time I have ever seen a US presidents image on a T-shirt here"

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 671
  By GottaLaff What a great piece this is. Every so often I relive that heady feeling I got on the night of November 4, 2008. This is one of those times: [A]dmiration for Obama remains strong, particularly among young people in China. This is great news for Obama. As the long-term future of US-China relations ...
  2 weeks ago

• YouthVote: voter education should familiarize voters with new process

  
  PINOYWORLD Philippines | Pinoy Blogger's Official Blog — Authority: 509
  As voter registration ends, YouthVotePhilippines , steps up its voter education campaign with the second round of its time-and-motion study on filling up the ballot held yesterday (October 24) at the San Isidro Central School, Nueva Ecija. Results of the recent study show that, on average, it may take a voter ...
  2 weeks ago

• Via HuffPo: The White Houses Lack of Youth Outreach

  
  Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics — Authority: 532
  Jose Antonio Vargas has a piece on the Huffington Post asking what happened to all of the young people that turned out for Obama. He also asks where too is the mainstream media "the same MSM that declared 2008 as " The Year of the Youth Vote " -- in covering how young people are impacted by the health care ...
  2 weeks ago

• The medical marijuana memo isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 588
  The Obama administration threw a bone to the lunatic, fringe left a few days ago. The memo to federal prosecutors in medical marijuana states has garnered hearty applause from Greenwald and the Marijuana Policy Project. When elected, Obama said that federal raids on state-law legal marijuana cultivation and ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Obama Can’t Lose the Young"

  
  HOWIEINSEATTLE — Authority: 441
  Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster, offered a straightforward formula: “When Republican voters and older voters get angry, they vote,” she said. “When younger voters get angry, they stay home.” -Eugene Robinson, from his article on truthdig.com.
  2 weeks ago

• Youth Off-Year Vote - Comparing Apples and Oranges and Campaign Styles

  
  Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics — Authority: 532
  This week Politico published an article discussing the "wane" in student political enthusiasm on American college campuses this off-year cycle. Erika Lovley juxtaposes this lack of excitement for the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia with the heightened political participation last fall. Before we get ...
  3 weeks ago

• Institute aims to foster student interest in elections

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 558
  The Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation at The University of Texas at Austin is one of only 13 organizations from across the country selected to receive a grant from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to foster student participation in the election process.Under the auspices of the Help ...
  3 weeks ago

• Back from DC in an activist frame of mind

  
  Bessemer Opinions — Authority: 121
  Having just returned from a protest march in which 200,000 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans marched for equal rights, with the profound reminders of similar protests in view everywhere you go in Washington (the Mall, the Wall, the Lincoln Memorial), Im still in an activist frame of mind. For my first ...
  3 weeks ago

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