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Millennials Missing from the Midterms
By Kevin Brennan - Politics DailyDespite last-minute appeals from both parties, a slightly smaller percentage of America's youth voted Tuesday compared with the 2006 midterm elections. Just 20 percent of 18-to-29-year-old registered voters cast ballots, according to exit poll projections by CIRCLE, a Tufts University group that studies youth voter behavior. The turnout rate for young voters in 2006 was 26 percent. Peter Levine, director of CIRCLE, said the 20 percent turnout rate was not particularly unusual for a midterm election year. Experts suggested that if both political parties and individual campaigns had more ...
Opinion: It's Too Late for Obama to Fire Up Young Voters
By Michael Arceneaux - AOL News
(Oct. 28) -- You'd think that the under-30 crowd would be displaying an unprecedented amount of interest in this non-presidential election year. After all, an election season featuring former teen witches, bestiality-loving bigots and ex-felons, to say nothing of the impact it will have on the remainder of President Barack Obama's historic first term, should be stoking their excitement. But it's not. Some polls suggest that the youth of America appear to be about as interested in voting this year as Charlie Sheen is invested in maintaining a low profile. A recent study released by the ...
Obama's Town Halls Target Young Voters -- But Are the Kids Tuned In?
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyThis week, the president logged considerable time trying to determine whether the kids are alright -- or in fact, whether the kids don't stand a chance. Speaking at two youth-focused town halls in an effort to gin up his base of 18- to 29-year-old voters, Obama took his message to millennials at George Washington University (on Tuesday) and BET studios in Washington (on Thursday) for an MTV-sponsored forum. With little more than two weeks to go before the midterm elections, the president was making his appeal to a base that remains strong in its support: though approval for the president ...
Obama Grilled on Gay Rights, Race, Jobs in Youth-Oriented Town Hall Forum
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyPresident Obama got an earful from the left side of the political spectrum -- fielding challenging questions on gay rights, race and the economy -- during a town hall-style forum Thursday. Obama heard it right off the bat on the jobs issue. Washington resident Adam Hunter said many recent college graduates, like himself, are "still trying to find work -- but it's hard." Why hasn't the stimulus package worked, he wondered, and "why should we vote you back in" in two years if the economy does not improve? Obama insisted that his programs have worked "in terms of helping to cushion the fall," ...
College Republicans Urge Youth to Break Up With Obama
By Kevin Brennan - Politics DailySome college students have broken up with their former crush, President Barack Obama, and they want their peers to follow suit. That's the message of a political ad released last week by the College Republican National Committee. The satirical spot called "The Break Up" is running near college campuses in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida and has gotten more than 50,000 views on YouTube as of Tuesday morning. Click play below to watch the video: The College Republicans spent $9,700 on the commercial, the first television ad buy in the group's history, apparently sensing an opportunity to ...
Young Voters Cooling Off on Obama, New Poll Reveals
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyThe swelling wave of young voters that helped carry Barack Obama and the Democrats to a historic victory in 2008 has flattened out, weakened by disappointment and cynicism, a new nationwide Rock the Vote poll reveals. Important to both parties in this midterm cycle, a plurality of this voting bloc of 18-to-29-year-olds is focused on major issues including jobs, the economy, the cost and quality of education and the national debt, while saying it doesn't matter which party is in control of Congress. The young, according to the survey, are turning their attention to bread-and-butter issues ...
British Elections: Why Labour and Tories Are Declining, and 9 Other Trends
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyIf you followed the press coverage of this month's general elections in the United Kingdom, you're likely to come away with the sense that we just witnessed a watershed moment in this country's political history. But were these elections really historic? And if so, why? There's no question that there was a lot of drama packed into the brief, four-week election period that ended on May 6. It saw the first-ever televised political debates between the three main party leaders. Nick Clegg became a household name. And in the end, because no one party secured a majority, two political parties ...
Hillary Reversal on Student Caucusing?
By Matt Singer - Politics DailyHillary Clinton's campaign has been going out of its way to trash student participation in the Iowa caucuses. Just a couple days ago, the senator herself said she opposed Barack Obama's efforts to mobilize students to vote where they attend school. Her statement came on the heels of similar words by her communications director.Well, we now have some good news for people interested in increasing participation in public life: The Clinton campaign has reversed itself. Sort of.The same communications director who said that students shouldn't be caucusing where they now go to school is now saying ...
Hillary to Students: Don't Vote
By Matt Singer - Politics DailyFull disclosure: My day-to-day job is in organizing young people, including college students, in politics: motivating them on campaigns, educating them on issues, getting 'em out to the polls.From this perspective, there is little more infuriating than hearing the Democratic frontrunner for President knocking the right of students to participate as Hillary Clinton did recently, parroting a typically rightwing argument that student voters are somehow illegitimate voters.The reason for this, of course, is that college students in Iowa are clearly trending for Barack Obama. That apparently means ...
Who's the Joke -- Colbert or the GOP?
By Matt Singer - Politics DailyOuch. That has to hurt. Think of it this way: If Stephen Colbert was Gallagher, the Republican frontrunners would the watermelons in a three-way race. Comedian Stephen Colbert is not a threat to win the presidency, but the odds are that that his satire will win plenty of laughs and maybe even some votes.... For what it's worth, the overall numbers show Hillary Clinton at 45%, Rudy Giuliani at 35. The other match-up shows Clinton at 46 and Colbert at 12%. That's from a recently completed Rasmussen poll. And, for the long-term, the news looks worse for the GOP. ...
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