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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...
Harvard’s student radio station, WHRB, has teamed up with a youth-oriented online news outlet to provide at least five hours of live coverage of today’s presidential election...
...McCain dead even with - or slightly ahead of - Democrat Barack Obama. But Obama supporters believe it might not be that close, pointing to an unprecedented number of newly registered voters: some 340,000 this year, 150,000 of them under the age of 24. "The big unknown is the youth vote," says Democrat Chris Kelly of Columbia, a veteran of many campaigns. In his district alone, Kelly said, 3,300 new voters have signed up. "These are cell-phone kids - they don't show up in the polls...
Franken Courts the Youth Vote in Minnesota, 3 p.m. E.T. U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken received a sleepy reception as he strolled through the University of Minnesota's student union with St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman and campaign staffers. Students sporting red "I voted" stickers approached him for photographs, but other students lounging in the main lobby peered over their laptops, wondering who dared to interrupt their in-between-class naps...
...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?...