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...acquaintances of all sorts and species, invited them into the salon that was her life, and made them feel at home. She adopted them, as Mame did her young nephew, and led them up the staircase of her indestructible optimism. My wife Mary and I were about 20 years younger than Phyllis, but she ran us ragged on our visits to California or hers to New York. She introduced us to a boat-load of celebrities whom she had known forever. We?re stargazers enough to have been dazzled to meet the gracefully aging stars of our favorite old movies...
...there are signs of serious movement in the political preferences of the 18- to 24-year-old demographic. The Washington Post released a poll yesterday that showed John Kerry with a two-to-one lead over President Bush among younger voters. Some of Kerry’s large lead, verified by other recent polls, came from young, disenchanted Bush supporters switching sides. But the poll also found that teens and twenty-somethings who did not vote in 2000—but will in 2004—are also pushing Kerry’s numbers...
...younger adults were more likely to come across the convention by accident, the reduced coverage on the broadcast networks “implicitly roadblocks” their access, Patterson said...
...Younger adults, in particular, were affected by the reduced broadcast coverage. Sixty-three percent of adults 30 years of age or younger identified themselves as inadvertent convention viewers, compared to 47 percent of older adults...
...fact that younger and older Americans don’t have access to both party conventions to the degree they have in the past makes it likely that when people do cast their vote, they will do so with less information at their disposal than when they might otherwise have had,” Graff said...