Archive for the 'young voters' Category

Talk To Your Family

Posted on October 10, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, Jewish voters, young voters | 2 Comments

Dana Goldstein notes an interesting email from the Obama campaign, which I also received last night. The email encourages Obama supporters to speak with their families and encourage them to support Obama, as well. To my mind, this type of family discussion is the most grassroots form of politics, and I thought the email was [...]

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Simple Answers To Simple Questions

Posted on May 1, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under young voters | 2 Comments

Cafferty: How can the GOP attract young voters?
Answer: By not creating a society wherein the very idea of ever starting a family is prohibitively expensive due to fundamentally broken health care and housing markets and the general destruction of middle class America. Oh, and by not promising to stay in an ill-conceived and unwinnable war [...]

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A Moment For Young Voters

Posted on April 29, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2004 presidential election, 2008 presidential election, John McCain, party identification, polls, young voters | Leave a Comment

Pew has a chart you’ll likely be seeing a lot over the course of the next day or two:

That’s a twenty-five point gap in favor of the Democrats.
Mori Dinauer looks at the 2004 election results and does a rough calculation of how they might have changed if the youth party identification gap had been as [...]

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