Many people are asking right now: “What happened to ‘we are the ones, we’ve been waiting for’?” And, in many ways, rightfully so. Where are the young Americans who flooded the streets and voiced their support for Barack Obama and his solutions for our country? As a young person, I...

Politics has definitely come a long way since the now cliché cigar smoke-filled rooms of party conventions where the head honcho politicos crafted the platform to their liking. After the Obama campaign's eruption of voter engagement through employing user generated content submission tools as well as social media, the floodgates...

The upcoming 2010 midterm elections are sure to be nearly as historic as the 2008 presidential elections. Not because of any one candidate, cause, or slogan, but rather because of the unprecedented number and variety of newly registered voters that may or may not come out to the polls in...

Barack Obama's campaign is often cited for its robust youth outreach program and the historic excitement he garnered from members of my generation. And, to an extent, this characterization is absolutely correct. Youth turnout was the third highest since 1971 when eighteen year olds were enfranchised, the youth was the...