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...participation and enthusiasm we are seeing from voters, especially young people,” said government and sociology professor Theda R. Skocpol. Former Iowa Governor and current IOP Fellow Thomas J. Vilsack, who said he was less certain about the election results, also highlighted the importance of the youth vote. “The outcome in my view depends on the turnout of voters 18-29 years of age,” he said. Fortunately for Vilsack, The Crimson’s Election Survey found that nearly 80 percent of Harvard students said they planned to vote for Obama today...
...made and starred in. It earned an astounding $119 million at the North American box office, nearly five times as much as the previous top-grossing nonfiction film - his own Bowling for Columbine. That fall Moore, never a shy guy, used his newfound political bulk to get out the youth vote for the Democratic presidential ticket, touring 62 venues, most of them college campuses, in the 45 days before the election. He was such a big target that his enemies and enviers made feature-length documentaries against him, like Michael Moore Hates America...
...Yousef—and all American children—need someone like Barack Obama who champions the common-sense values we try so hard to instill in our youth, a politician who is yet to be jaded or corrupted by the political process. He needs someone who won’t allow him to inherit a nation burdened by debt or a world depleted by global warming. Yousef needs someone like Barack Obama to convince him that the promise of “liberty and justice for all”—that promise his class recites every morning?...
...even if digital organizing is here to stay, high youth turnout could prove an aberration...
...Patterson said youth participation in non-presidential elections is now at “an all-time low.” As the country’s political attention shifts past the 2008 presidential race, he said, youth turnout may slip...