Word: younger
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Quincy House station did not experience any other problems, said an official at the polling station. He added that no voters were turned away. Outside the gates of the House, shows of public support at Harvard for Obama reflected the distinct advantage that the Democratic candidate has enjoyed among younger voters. Yesterday, they dwarfed public efforts on behalf of McCain. Shrenik N. Shah ’09, an Obama supporter, said that he thought Obama’s campaign had garnered such strong support among young voters because of the campaign’s “idealized viewpoints...
...Obama’s victory over McCain, an Arizona senator and a decorated Vietnam veteran, also represents a transition between political epochs, from the generation defined by that war and its aftermath to a younger generation that largely escaped its scars...
...Gore ’69, and (sort of) Bill Gates, “You could cover politics, finance, the arts, architecture, really anything.”Still, there were skeptics who believed that the magazine’s focus was too narrow. Alumnus Stephen P. Younger ’77, who received the magazine free of charge for its first year, says, “It was a very interesting, people-oriented magazine. It was high quality and good content, and had features that I found of interest regarding Harvard alums.” Though, he admits...
...just non-Cuban Latinos who are changing Little Havana's politics. A half-century after Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, younger and more moderate Cuban-Americans are coming to the fore in Miami - and their votes could be critical to whether or not Obama upsets McCain in Florida, the nation's largest swing state. One of the young volunteers waiting to transport elderly Obama voters is Hector Martinez, 21, a film major at Miami-Dade College who feels an uncanny bond with Obama...
...conducting telephone surveys of those who voted early or by absentee ballots. The pollsters for this year's election also say they are making an effort to ensure the organization's more than 1,000 surveyors are diverse - in previous elections, surveyors tended to be young, and presumably attracted younger participants (who are more likely to be Democratic). The questionnaires are filled out anonymously and deposited into boxes, which pollsters say helps decrease the Bradley effect, in which voters don't to tell pre-election pollsters that they're planning to vote for white candidates over black candidates. About half...