Abortion: Are We Losing Younger Voters?
I've been plowing through a book entitled American Grace: How Religion Unites and Divides Us by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell. It's an interesting read, although I find their optimism about...
View ArticleA Challenge to NH Students
I am a proud New Hampshire citizen. I am definitely dissatisfied with the criminally negligent and unconstitutional movements coming out of my state legislature. And college students now have even more...
View ArticleAnother GOP Agenda item to Put Students in their Place
Like those classic songs say, "Sometimes you just don't what you have -- until it's gone" ...Is there anything more fundamental to our democracy and country than the right to vote? Should we not...
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African Americans led youth voter turnout in 2010, white youth vote declined...
Source: Current Population Survey (CPS) November Supplements, 1974-2010 (Chart created by CIRCLE) Continuing a 12-year trend, voter turnout among people aged 18-29 is estimated to have been 24...
View ArticleSen. Rockefeller: "Young people today...don't have any social values"
Today, at the Senate's hearing on mobile privacy, caused by Apple's tracking program being revealed to the public last month, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, in the midst of questioning Facebook's...
View ArticleIowa Republican State Senator Tries to Apologize to College Students He Told...
Crossposted from Future Majority.A few weeks ago, Republican Iowa State Sen. Shawn Hamerlinck told five Iowa university student government representatives to "go home" and to not worry about the work...
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Whatever happened to civics?
I'm a teacher. I don't formally teach social studies, or political science, or history, or government. But in order for my students to understand what I do teach—cultural anthropology and women's...
View ArticleYouth Vote. Harder but more important than ever.
The New York Times’ recent story on college students and the President has a few problems. The most serious is that the article takes the exact wrong approach in going to students who worked for Obama...
View ArticleThe Democratic Party has FAILED America's Youth.
Or: How Ron Paul and libertarians are beating us in an ideological war we should be winning.Do you remember things here in 2008? I sure do, it was my first election I was old enough to vote in. I'm...
View ArticleObama up with Hispanics, down with youth
It was both the youth vote and Latinos that helped get President Barack Obama elected in 2008. One is still hanging in there and the other has real reservations over what he has done for them. Even...
View ArticleSurvey of First-Year Students' Politics
I just finished reading Libby Sander's “The Politics of Freshmen: a Mixed Portrait” in the most recent The Chronicle of Higher Education, summarizing portions of the findings of the annual survey...
View ArticleThe youth vote: It's not as simple as you think.
One of my friends (a recent college grad) recently posted a note on Facebook explaining what she's been going through politically the last couple years. She started off a big Obama supporter in 2008....
View ArticleCan Obama win without Florida?
Florida is one of four states that could determine who wins the presidency. Polls in the last few months are showing that President Obama is favored to win over...
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Romney surrogate's youth vote pitch: Mitt is younger than John McCain
"Hey, I'm younger than McCain too. Maybe I should have run."Uh:“My guess is you’ll see a dramatic difference in the youth vote this time — part of it is you have a younger, more dynamic Republican...
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A conversation with future voters
Obama's evolution could have a wider impact than expected As a local volunteer official with the Democratic Party, I sometimes have the privilege of speaking about the Party, its platform and its...
View ArticleAdding It Up: Annals of the Culture of Politics
I've written often about my conviction that getting big money out of politics is the necessary precursor to anything like a meaningful democracy in the United States. Most recently, it was in "The...
View ArticleRyan's "Youthful Vigor" Won't Slow GOP's Demo Death March
As Mitt Romney announced his Vice Presidential running mate over the weekend, the Beltway chattering class was quick to trumpet the supposed "youthful vigor" Paul Ryan's selection would inject in a...
View ArticleNew Book Could Rocket the Youth Vote Even Higher than in 2008
A new ebook has just been published that could hold the key to getting even more young people out for this election than for the 2008 election. It's called Get Your Future Back!, by P. J. Cultor. It...
View ArticleDoes anybody else want to stoke the youth vote?
Last week I posted a book review that didn't get much attention. A few people have asked me to post it again, saying that it was a mistake to put it up during the DNC mania of last week.I don't know if...
View ArticleWorried About Youth Vote? Read Georges Daire's take on P. J. Cultor's new ebook.
Georges Daire has posted this piece about a new ebook that could change the dynamic of the youth vote in the run-up to the election. If you worry that young people may sit this one out, you really...
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