Youth Interest Doubles: 65 Percent Of Under-30s Paying Attention To Election

The New York Times   |  Dalia Sussman   |   July 30, 2007 06:06 PM


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It's the middle of summer and months before the first vote is cast, yet polls confirm what the political cognoscenti suspect: most Americans are already tuning into the presidential election.

More than two-thirds of respondents in a New York Times/CBS News poll earlier this month said they were paying at least some attention to the 2008 presidential campaign. That is up substantially from this time four years ago, when 4 in 10 Americans were paying attention.

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