Thank You, Howard Dean
The world turned after all:
About 47 percent of Americans 18-24 voted in 2004, up from 36 percent in 2000, according to the Census Bureau. No other age group increased its turnout by more than 5 percentage points.
And:
"This is big," said David King, associate director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University who highlighted the Census Bureau findings in an IOP report Wednesday. "When you vote young, you're much more likely to vote the rest of your life, so the 2004 campaign turned a generation on to politics."
And:
Young voters were also finding new ways to be politically active, such as wearing wristbands or T-shirts that support a cause, the IOP found.
Politics aside, college students were far more likely than their parents' generation to volunteer and to see such work as a way to solve important national issues, the study said.
Read it all here.
1 comment:
Now all we have to do is make sure that the electoral process can't be hijacked. If it's going to be a state-by-state matter, we have to make sure that there are legal provisions that guarantee a correct tabulation of the vote. Most legislation never envisioned that the tabulation could be hijacked by electronic means. Most legislative remedies address voter fraud, not electoral fraud by the people in charge of the election.
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