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...Germans, it seems, never need an excuse for a beer. In fact, nobody does?at least if attendance figures at Munich's annual Oktoberfest are anything to go by. With an expected turnout of 6 million beer lovers from all over the globe, the Oktoberfest is one of the world's largest gatherings, and kicks off, for the 171st time, on Sept...
...after some consideration, I’m becoming more optimistic about young voter turnout this election cycle. On top of the non-partisan get-out-the-vote drives aimed at youth, there are forces marshaling against President Bush that are influential with Generation Y, and it looks like young Americans—generally more liberal than the population at large, and therefore more likely to hop on the anti-Bush bandwagon—are responding...
...this mountains of polling data and anecdotal evidence suggesting that the war in Iraq has become seriously unpopular with American youth, and a strong young voter turnout in November looks even more likely...
...skeptic in me still thinks that youth turnout won’t be spectacular in November, despite P. Diddy’s celebrity-studded jet tour. But it will be better than before. And all it took was four years of a radical right-winger in the White House...
...last bunch arrives late in the afternoon, a group of women who have come to Kabul's Eid Mosque to register to vote in Afghanistan's first presidential election, on Oct. 9. One by one they lift their burqas to be photographed, revealing faces young and old. The turnout is encouraging - 90% of an estimated 10 million eligible voters have so far registered. And the very fact that elections can take place in this war-ravaged country is a good sign. But a growing split between the country's restive warlords and the administration of interim President Hamid Karzai...