GOTV Blogathon: Young Voters and Obama
With Mitt Romney’s Etch-a-Sketch-iness, it was no surprise when, at the Oct. 16 presidential debate, he told college student Jeremy Epstein he’ll make sure young people can afford college and get jobs...
View ArticlePresident Obama Leads by 17% Among Those Under 30 but How Many Will Vote?
A new poll by the Center for Information and Research of Civic Learning and Engagement, CIRCLE, found Obama enjoys 17-point edge on Romney among voters under 30, a finding consistent with the 19 point...
View ArticleMitt Romney blundered on youth vote assumptions adding to risk GOP may lose a...
Ohio State University professor Paul Beck warns that Youth Vote Gap Suggests Republicans Risk Losing An 'Entire Generation' To Democrats. Given youth unemployment rates over 10%, Mitt Romney blundered...
View ArticleResponse to Nancy Keenan in Salon: Let's Set the Record Straight on...
It is time to put to rest the questioning about Millennials and whether they care about access to safe abortion care. It is time to get to work.Written by Julia Reticker-Flynn for RH Reality Check....
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Computers For Elephants
Since the ignominious departure of George W. Bush in 2008, the Republican Party has taken on the look of recently divorced man thrust back into the dating scene after a decade long hiatus. The Grand...
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Republicans vow to capture the youth vote ... if they can just get past that...
Maybe the kids won't notice ... There's a lot to laugh at in the Republican Party autopsy on why they lost in 2012 and what they need to do going forward, but this little nugget was particularly funny:...
View ArticleBlock The Vote
A few months back I wrote about how Republicans were trying to keep college students from voting – they removed voting booths from campuses, they tried to knock kids off the voter rolls for using their...
View ArticleWhatever Happened to the Conscription of Wealth?
“There must be a way, and the will to peace is reinforced by one factor in the situation that is favorable to the immediate limitation of armaments, however portentous the obstacles that may interpose....
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How to Increase US Voter Turnout
Voting is a right, but it's also a process. Â Many people are baffled by the process, and find it easier to just skip it. Â Here's one solution:Make sure that kids are taught how to vote!If we make...
View ArticleWay to lose the youth vote, Republicans
 Power Shift 2011: 'We Are The Youth, The Mighty Mighty Youth!' Young climate justice activists show their power in front of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and White House.In a new climate poll,...
View ArticleThe GOP Could Win the Senate & House in 2014 - Learn how to stop them here
Is GOP/Tea Party control of both the House & Senate in 2014 frightening enough to get the Democratic youth, Hispanics, and every other Dem to voting booth in 2014? Â And, if they all do turn out in...
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Poll suggests GOP outreach not reaching
Republicans spoke after the 2012 election of recognizing their large gap with some Democratic-leaning demographic groups (DLDGs) and their poor long-term electoral prospects as a consequence....
View ArticleVirginia is for Lovers . . . of Turnout
There are Presidential year elections (2012)There are off-year elections (2014)And then there are off-off-year elections (2013)*By now we're sick of hearing that Democratic base turnout is low in...
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They are trying to stop the student vote. We won't let them!
Student at SUNY New Paltz reading a voter registration form distributed by NYPIRG."They," of course, refers to Republicans. "We" refers to every person who believes the right to vote is fundamental....
View ArticleBoston Globe reveals Obama's 'War on Coal' is illusory given his...
President Obama's announced goal of significant reductions of emissions of CO2 was seen as a fatal blow to the American coal industry. But long standing federal policies that promote and subsidize the...
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Nope, not even Harvard study says millennials skewing GOP
Nope, millennials aren't abandoning the Democratic Party. Question is whether they'll vote. The headlines yesterday were breathless:Harvard Crimson: IOP Poll Finds Declining Support for Obama among...
View ArticleLet The Blaming Commence.
Which is worse after an election like this, the gloating from tea bag trolls, or the hand-wringing and incestuous scalp-hunting from the left? The president is going to be impeached over [reasons],...
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College Republicans claim sexist "Rick Scott wedding dress" ads re-elected...
College Republican's sexist ad campaign to re-elect Rick ScottRemember the disgusting ad campaign by the College Republican National Committee, where they compared voting to picking out a wedding...
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