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Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics:
Earlier this week I posted two blog entries commenting on a post by Erica Williams pertaining to the current state of youth organizing. Erica made one final point that I'd still like to address:Who are we kidding? Many people voted because of Obama. Deal with it. I think one of the main failures of youth vote advocates thi (Read More)
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Over at her personal blog, Erica Williams, the Policy and Advocacy Manager at Campus Progress, has a thoughtful post reporting on a recent policy summit held by the Generational Alliance, a coalition of organizations from different sectors of the progressive movement (policy, leadership development, electoral) focused on yo (Read More)
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Update: Kos just posted an example of the political deafness and blindness I just described below from a 2006 Peggy Noonan column.Excerpt:Conservatives are always writing about the strains and stresses within the Republican Party, and they are real. But the Democratic Party seems to be near imploding, and for that most humi (Read More)
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Nov 16, 2008
Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics:
Some Sunday reading:The New York Times reports that President Obama may have to give up his blackberry. It certainly is nice to have a technologically-engaged president in the White House who is at least pushing the envelope on these issues.Meanwhile, Obama's not procrastinating at staffing his White House. Some more role (Read More)
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Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics:
Note: Mike wrote about this story on Thursday, but I wanted to dig deeper into the story. You can read Mike's post here.Since Election Day, many a journalist has written pieces cautiously exploring the changes that Millennials will bring to electoral politics, given their "sudden" emergence. Some conclude that Obama has (Read More)
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Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics:
The New York Times published a story in last Sunday's paper titled "Generation O Gets Its Hopes Up," posing the question whether or not Obama's victory is a good or bad thing for his young, devoted fan club.And the enthusiasm has a way of spreading. Wearing a pink Chanel suit and gold heels, Holly Hennessy, a wealthy older (Read More)
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Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics:
Reading all the youth vote press in the last week, one thing is abundantly clear - the punditry is now fully on board the youth vote wagon. When James Carville goes from saying this:Show me a candidate who depends on the youth vote and I'll show you a loser.To this:Exit polling indicates that Mr Obama won two-thirds of tho (Read More)
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Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics:
I'm leaving to catch a train down to DC in about an hour. I'm going to try to do some number crunching on the train. If that works out, I might have something interesting to report Thursday morning. Otherwise, I've got meetings tonight and all day tomorrow, so posting may be light depending on how much down-time I get. (Read More)
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