I just submitted a question regarding each RNC Chair candidate’s specific plan to win back the youth vote to the RNC Candidate Forum. You can view the video below — please consider going here and voting for it to be one of the questions that gets asked to the candidates!
Posts Tagged ‘young’
Grading the RNC Chair Candidates’ Young Voter Outreach Plans
With the RNC Chair election rapidly approaching, I wanted to take a look at how each candidate plans to appeal to young voters. Specifically, I will be referencing each candidate’s plans and platforms as outlined on their respective websites, along with their responses to the question regarding youth voters at the RNC Chair debate hosted [...]
111th Congress: The Oldest Congress Ever
Hats off to USA Today, which points out that: Barack Obama, one of the youngest presidents ever to take the oath of office when he’s inaugurated Jan. 20, will be working with the nation’s oldest Congress. The average age will be 57 in the House and 63 in the Senate, according to the chambers’ historical [...]
Winning Back the Youth Vote (Part 3)
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 [...]
In Winning the Youth Vote, We Must Aim High
Over at the Washington Times, Ben Domenech writes an op-ed entitled, “Getting the youth vote.” Domenech’s overarching argument is this: It’s time for the face of conservatism in America to stop being a group of old-money gentlemen and ladies who came into politics fighting the Reds. It’s time to stop writing off the youth vote. [...]
If the 2008 Election Were Decided by 18-29 Year Olds…
This is apparently what the map would look like: (via Future Majority) Regardless of what type of strategy the GOP pursues – be it a 435-district strategy, 50-state strategy, or something else – it’s clear we have our work cut out for us with young voters.
Mr. Blackwell, College Republicans Aren’t Enough.
Ken Blackwell, in his letter to RNC members announcing his candidacy for chairman, suggests the following as a solution to the Republican Party’s woes among young voters: Expend an unprecedented amount of RNC funding to build vibrant College Republican chapters on every major university campus in the nation and use those chapters as a base [...]
Four Ways to Reposition a Dying Republican Brand
If the Republican Party wants to win in 2010 and beyond, the bottom line is that it will have to reposition its brand. The latest from Real Clear Politics, reporting on a recent Gallup poll, confirms this (emphasis added): The Republican Party’s image has gone from bad to worse over the past month, as only [...]
Winning Back the Youth Vote (Part 2)
We simply cannot afford to lose a generation of young voters to the Democrats. As a follow-up to my first post from a few days back, I’d like to propose some specific changes that would better serve the Republican Party in recapturing the youth vote. Establish a Young Voter Outreach arm of the Republican National [...]