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Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics:
Ballot boxes all over the country felt pretty lonely on Tuesday.Sure, they had election workers tending to them and making sure ballots were fully stocked. And, of course, older voters predictably made their way to the polls. But young people were largely missing on Tuesday. In Iowa City and in several key elections all acr (Read More)
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Pundits were quick to point out that the percentage of Millennial voters (those 29 and younger ) in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial elections last week were roughly half of what they were in 2008. This led the voice of what passes for wisdom inside the Beltway, Charlie Cook, to proclaim, “we knew that young and (Read More)
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Kevin Bondelli's YD Blog:
Prior to Tuesday’s election Craig Berger and I each wrote harbinger posts. Craig’s piece, Prepping for the ‘Youth Disengagement’ Meme, highlighted the need for candidates to respect young voters as any other voting demographic, and that they need to be asked for the votes and support. My article, What Happened to Investing (Read More)
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Rachel Hoff of the Weekly Standard posted a gloating piece and was tweeting up a story about her new belief that young voters are now Republicans after the Virginia elections."The young people who were the driving force of the Obama campaign stayed home in 2009. Claims that President Obama won a generation of young American (Read More)
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Despite the chatter from the punditry, yesterday was a big day for Millennials. While they focus on two races with candidates that ignored the youth vote and wonder why turnout did not match 2008’s all time high, a number of young people won local elections throughout the country.In New York, Young Democrats of America Demo (Read More)
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UPDATE: There is a demographic breakdown of partisan vote in VA that shows that 18-29 year olds voted 51% for Deeds, 47% for McDonnell, and were 10% of the vote share in VA.Watching election returns last night proved to be a very interesting evening. What became consistent was the impact of the lack of outreach on the you (Read More)
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In the work that we do as part of the progressive youth movement, vote drives aimed toward young people can easily take on a message like "vote for voting's sake." The result? A media and society that just assume youth are going to vote regardless of what is going on around them. It's a convenient dualism for the establi (Read More)
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More concern trolling on the right (well, from the Wall Street Journal) regarding young voters' support of Obama, and thus, the Democratic Party come 2010:Moreover, the sour mood that has gripped the nation’s politics could only further turn off the young. This means that the decision of Republican congressional leaders to (Read More)
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This week Politico published an article discussing the "wane" in student political enthusiasm on American college campuses this off-year cycle. Erika Lovley juxtaposes this lack of excitement for the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia with the heightened political participation last fall.Before we get into comp (Read More)
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FutureMajority is part of the Y.I. Want Change coalition. Congratulations to the Y.I. organizers for a successful event! - KarloFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, October 13, 2009 Contacts: Rebecca Abou-Chedid (Young Invincibles): media@younginvincibles.org, 202-256-4096 Chrissy Faessen (Rock the Vote): chrissy@rockt (Read More)
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The latest unemployment numbers and poll results have led most observers to predict a major setback for Democrats in the 2010 Congressional elections. But a year is a lifetime in politics and much can change between now and then to influence next year’s vote. As Ron Brownstein recently pointed out, the demographic makeup of (Read More)
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In a piece this week, Winograd and Hais put forth an interesting examination of civility in political rhetoric and how it connects to the larger generational cycle Howe and Strauss coined.As generational theorists, William Strauss and Neil Howe pointed out, an idealist generation animated by moral beliefs, such as today's B (Read More)
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Book: Transforming Power: From The Personal To The Political. by Judy Rebick. Penguin Canada, 2009Judy Rebick’s book on the rise of networked politics has been very well received so far.For example, here is a review Hilary Wainright, Editor of Red Pepper:“In Transforming Power, Judy Rebick tells the story of how, in the wak (Read More)
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Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics:
A few years ago EMILY's List did this amazing video asking women to run for office. They had found that the major reason women didn't run for office was because no one suggested it to them or asked them to run - where male candidates never needed to be asked, they just ran.Given this new data, I wonder if the same is true (Read More)
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Over the past few years, youth activists have confronted annoying memes suggesting that Millennial activists were just another continuation of Generation X, apathetic about the political process, not appreciating any opportunities for civic engagement. The elections of 2004/2006/2008 have helped with that, providing some p (Read More)
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