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Tuesday’s election was crucial for the youth voter, and we failed to meet the challenge. Hope springs eternal, however, while media and pop culture still do their part to encourage us to get out and vote. In four years, when P. Diddy again threatens to kill you for not voting and MTV interrupts the “Real World” broadcast to play “Rock the Vote” commercials, appreciate the effort. Think about why your friends don’t vote and about why this specifically targeted advertising isn?...
Seventeen percent of the ballots cast in Tuesday’s election were by voters ages 18-29. Seventeen percent. This was not the expected banner year for youth voter turnout. Across the nation right now, politically active young people, whether Democrat or Republican, are mourning together our repeated failure to take up our demographic’s latent power. There are nearly 59 million United States citizens between the ages of 20 and 30, so why did only 35 percent of us exercise our constitutional rights on Tuesday...
Together, we can be heard. We can make a difference in our own futures. Left or right, black or white, rich or poor, in 2008 we must remember: the voice of the youth voter matters...
...youth voter turnout makes absolutely no sense considering that young people had the most at stake in this election. Senior citizens and Baby Boomers vote in droves, but they won’t be the ones ultimately most affected by Tuesday’s implications. The scope of the issues directly relating to youth that the president will have to address over the next four years is staggering. There are four Supreme Court Justices over the age of 70 currently serving on the court. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist is severely ailing and may resign within the year. The conservative...
...November 2, voters firmly and resoundingly endorsed George W. Bush for a second term as President of the United States. Bush has as clear a mandate to govern as any President in the last half century. He beat his opponent by nearly four million votes. He is the first candidate in 16 years to receive a majority of the popular vote. And he is the first President since FDR to be reelected and also increase his party’s majority in both the House and the Senate. All this in a year with the highest voter turnout in history...