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...Obama really gave voice to that feeling.” Novey added, “The candidates that do well are the ones who figure out what the movements are in society and tap into what people are already feeling.” Harvard Kennedy School professor Thomas E. Patterson also said that student interest in politics was not fleeting. “I do think this moment has created a lot of interest,” he said, “and I don’t mean simply the Obama moment. Interest has been on the rise...
...even though gays were fighting to preserve a basic right, it was the anti-equality side in California that seemed to have the most fervor. A symbolic low point for the gay side came on Oct. 13, when the Sacramento Bee ran a remarkable story about Rick and Pam Patterson, a Mormon couple of modest means - he drives a 10-year-old Honda Civic, she raises their five boys - who had withdrawn $50,000 from their savings account and given it to the pro-8 campaign. "It was a decision we made very prayerfully," Pam Patterson, 48, told...
...could argue that marriage equality has little to do with children, but Patterson seemed to speak to Californians' inchoate phobias about gays and kids. On the Friday before the Bee story appeared, a group of San Francisco first-graders was taken to city hall to see their lesbian teacher marry her partner. Apparently the field trip was a parent's idea - not the teacher's - but the optics of the event were terrible for the gay side. It seemed like so much indoctrination...
...Such a desire for change has historically raised projections of youth turnout. Thomas E. Patterson, a professor at the Kennedy School, cited the example of Republican Ronald Reagan’s 1980 run against incumbent Jimmy Carter, which led to an increase in youth voting...
...Patterson said youth participation in non-presidential elections is now at “an all-time low.” As the country’s political attention shifts past the 2008 presidential race, he said, youth turnout may slip...