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DENVER—Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick '78 spoke about the rise of the youth vote to a group of Harvard affiliates in Denver for the Democratic National Convention...
Volpe added that the youth vote is affecting the political preferences of older voters in a measurable way that’s never been seen before, particularly among Democrats...
...John McCain released several new ads over the weekend intended to rile up and appeal to the roughly 28% of Clinton backers who have told pollsters they are still undecided or plan to vote for McCain this fall. One titled "Passed Over" implies that his Democratic opponent didn't choose Clinton to be his running mate because he couldn't handle her "truth"-telling, while another features a "proud Hillary Clinton Democrat" declaring her intention to support McCain in the fall. Rumors of intraparty strife reached such a fever pitch Monday morning, including talk that Bill Clinton was upset about...
...hidden time bombs are the thousands of votes cast by Biden in the Senate, and the millions of words uttered by him publicly over 36 years," says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "There has got to be rich material for negative ads in there. But then again, people don't vote for or against the vice presidential nominees." Indeed, perhaps with his choice in mind, Obama last week underlined that he would be the one making foreign policy decisions in the Oval Office, while acknowledging he was looking for someone to challenge...
This aspect of Obama - the promise to "break out of some of those old arguments" - speaks powerfully to many younger Americans, who have turned out in record numbers to vote and canvass for him. Obama is the first national politician to reflect their widespread feeling that time is marching forward but politics is not, that the baby boomers in the interest groups and the media are indeed trapped in a time warp, replaying their stalemated arguments year after year. The theme recurs in conversations with Obama supporters: He just feels like something...