Posts Tagged ‘turnout’

Winning Back the Youth Vote (Part 3)

Dec 18th, 2008
by Aaron Marks.
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Future Majority, a top-notch progressive blog that I highly recommend you add to your daily reading list, has two very insightful blog posts today related to getting out the youth vote. First, Michael Connery looks at a report by Curtis Gans on young voter turnout. Michael offers an interesting conclusion that echoes many of the [...]

A Word on ‘Young Voter’ Turnout

Nov 4th, 2008
by Aaron Marks.
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I just finished voting at my polling place in the city of Pittsburgh.  I live in what you can definitely call a college town – immediately adjacent to the University of Pittsburgh campus.  The line was about an hour long, consisted of roughly 75-100 people, and was probably 50-60% college students.  I first voted at [...]