Younger voters roaring to life

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2835&u_sid=10230721

Published Sunday | January 13, 2008
Younger voters roaring to life
BY ROBYNN TYSVER
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

COUNCIL BLUFFS - A new generation of young people who came of age after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks appears to be massing into a powerful voting bloc in 2008.


A crowd filled with exuberant young people cheers for presidential hopeful Barack Obama at the Iowa Events Center's Hy-Vee Hall in Des Moines after he won the Democratic caucuses in Iowa on Jan. 3.


The generation that some are calling "Millennials" proved instrumental in Democrat Barack Obama's victory in the Iowa caucuses.

And in New Hampshire last week, voter turnout among people younger than 30 more than doubled from 2004.

These young men and women say the Iraq war, health care and the economy are driving them to the caucuses and primaries. Many say they are looking for candidates who are authentic and devoid of "political spin."

Thirteen percent of eligible Iowans younger than 30 participated in the caucuses. Obama won the backing of 57 percent of young Democratic caucusgoers.

The youth turnout in New Hampshire was 43 percent. Most of those young people voted in the Democratic primary. Obama won support from 45 percent and Hillary Clinton scooped up 31 percent.

FULL story at link.

[aquart]

1. Uh huh. Change to what?

[dkf]

2. Change to non-lobbyist controlled government!

I could definitely vote for that.

[Occam Bandage]

3. Maybe they'll actually vote this time.

[MonkeyFunk]

7. I've read this story

every four years for decades. It just never seems to come true.

[Occam Bandage]

8. I'm not holding my breath either.

[stravu9]

4. Wow! Déjà Vu!

I've seen this before!
Like when Kerry ran! And very few of them actually MADE IT TO THE POLLS!
Remember how "the youth vote was going to turn things around??"
I wish it weren't so but History doesn't lie!

[stillcool]

6. Actually it does...

Don't your remember? Kerry won.

[stravu9]

9. What Planet Are YOU On? I Might Like It There Too!

I have no problems with relocating if I can be on one Where John Edwards is President!

[stillcool]

10. Do you read?

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stillcool47

[Didereaux]

12. hell '68 non voted then either, and screamed the election was stolen Kids bah!

[Faygo Kid]

5. Nothing would make me happier than to see young people politically engaged.

I doubt it, though. Might take them away from Playstation.

[Imagevision]

11. What sucks is when they dismissed the young vote in 04 election sayaing they simply never showed?!?

I believe the M$M squelched the idea that the young vote came out and played a role...