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...looking our age." Teitell, who is 47 ("the youngest I'll ever be again in my life") and writes regularly for the Boston Globe, spent a year exploring the American obsession with youth - the Botox Industrial Complex - for her new book, Drinking Problems at the Fountain of Youth (William Morrow). TIME Reporter Andrea Sachs caught up with Teitell by phone at her home in Boston...
...that voters must establish "domicile" in their precincts to register but never defines that term, youth-voter advocates say it's no accident that registrars' rulings are often strictest in small towns, where students could potentially swing a local election. In 2004, after a voter drive registered 2,000 William and Mary students in Williamsburg - home to fewer than 12,000 residents - the local registrar announced that students no longer had domicile and could not vote there. "If you're a homeless person, you're allowed to write down the landmarks that you live around," says Zach Pilchen, president...
...some young voters are left feeling that in the election meant to be their civic coming-out party, whether or not they can make themselves heard is out of their control. Pilchen recalls watching Defense Secretary Robert Gates give a speech at William and Mary in 2007, when students were still licking their wounds from the domicile controversy. "He was expressing outrage about the fact that so many young people don't vote," Pilchen recalls. "Students were trying to vote forever, and they were just being blocked at every turn...
With less than 23 days to go before Election Day, John McCain and Sarah Palin are launching a range of attacks on their Democratic opponent that revolve around one central question: Who is Barack Obama? Whether these broadsides focus on Obama's ties to former domestic terrorist William Ayers, his votes on funding troops in Iraq or his record on crime in Illinois, they all aim at emotional, hot-button issues that the McCain campaign hopes will cut through the political clutter and current financial crisis to help convince voters that Obama is not the man they thought...
Forget Sarah Palin and William Ayers and disaffected Hillary voters and the rest of this year's sideshows. Focus on the basics: any candidate seeking to extend his party's hold on the White House who must deliver a litany like that three weeks from Election Day is in a world of hurt...